🚨 NEW Works in Progress ARTICLE🚨

Britain had its largest official rate of real house price growth in its history from October 1971 to July 1973. This was then followed by a house price crash and a government bailout. This is the story.

Nick Cowen Nick Whitaker Zach Mazlish Samuel Watling Ben Reinhardt Anya Martin Ben Adler A common view says that buildings today lack ornament and decoration due to high labour costs. This argument is clearly wrong, explains Samuel Hughes. Ornament has always been mass produced and was getting ever cheaper until we decided to stop using it.

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🚨 It's time for a new issue of Works in Progress🚨

Issue 15 is out now!

Read it to find out:
- How we conquered drunk driving
- Why no one uses prediction markets
- How NYC finally did congestion charging
& much more!
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Great to see our former director Anya Martin still banging the drum for fixing housing 👇

Brilliant new piece by Anya Martin in Works in Progress explaining that the problem of gentrification squeezing people out is caused by not building enough homes:

Two stories today:

✅ Emeryville has third-highest population growth rate, attributable to approving new housing. sfgate.com/local/article/…

✅ Emeryville reduced homelessness 59% in latest count. sfchronicle.com/sf/article/oak…

🤫 We have 90 new homes for the homeless, opening May 2025.

Office for National Statistics (ONS) Why was it discontinued? Because it turned out to have been consistently underestimating increases in rents. By really quite a large amount. ons.gov.uk/peoplepopulati…

Failure to reform our planning system means violent criminals are released early.

Justice Sec Alex Chalk in January: '[New prisons in Buckinghamshire, Leicestershire and Lancashire] have been bogged down in planning and that’s a source of a significant frustration for me.'