Interwar council housing in ?. There's one pretty helpful clue if you look closely.

NEW: planning approvals in England have fallen to a 10 year low. The government has taken strong initial steps but more action is needed:

Missing from this discussion on where the govt's 1.5 million homes could go - workers! If we want new homes to help grow the economy we must listen to the workers who do that. Big issues for workers are affordability, long commutes, poor conditions. bbc.co.uk/news/articles/…

Interesting analysis from Resolution Foundation on the potential(ly lost..) GDP impacts of the government's new housing targets Still time to take another look at the new formula

Great paper. Tl;dr: local upzonings increase supply and don’t generate local increases in price (amenity effects). No local decrease either, relative to non-upzoned neighborhoods, b/c effect of the new supply on prices is the same citywide.

Great analysis Resolution Foundation. Another problem with price/income measure of affordability is that they make expensive places look better than they are. Don't build enough homes -> price out everyone except super rich -> they have v high incomes so "affordability" looks less bad

This graph goes a long way towards explaining why British houses look so cheap and are such low quality, even though they're expensive to buy. They are, in fact, built cheaply.

This new paper is going to be an important contribution to the debate on how to restore economic growth in the UK.