Forgive me, I have skin in this London game because my Nan still talks about having to move out of Deptford when slums were being cleared and now people want to meet me there for fancy dinners

Opinion from FT’s Alphaville: The list of candidates for the Federal Reserve chair keeps getting longer. Given the potentially huge consequences of the choice, FT Alphaville thought it was worth grading the candidates on a variety of metrics. on.ft.com/3V1yGTW

Build-to-Let Down on.ft.com/476yCtz

“We need to be careful not to jump out of the frying pan and into the fire with shiny new homes from institutional investors — homes with their own structural issues”. Adam Almeida in Financial Times touching on our work on Build-to-Rent & gentrification. ft.com/content/936fc0…

Fantastic piece by Siobhán Dhònnchaidh on the false YIMBY v NIMBY dichotomy

“Labour’s housing plans risk sacrificing real affordability by relying on investors who naturally prioritise their own returns.” Excellent Guardian editorial on build-to-rent, citing Adam Almeida 👇 theguardian.com/commentisfree/…

So happy to see this argument on Bidenomics being made in the Financial Times and by a former colleague no less, Melanie Brusseler ft.com/content/dda58e…

Is this Labour's biggest scam? Housing expert Adam Almeida takes apart Labour's build-to-let schemes

Owen Jones Adam Almeida Labour’s build-to-let approach seems geared more toward big investors than ordinary people needing homes, making the housing crunch worse. Almeida is right—these plans don’t actually ease demand and only add to the wider problem of housing being treated as a financial asset.

"The numbers suggest the housing crisis is less about shortage than the unequal distribution of homes..." Excellent long read from Joh Plender on the true causes of the UK housing crisis: policy driven financialisation and inequality. on.ft.com/45NQmZC