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Natalie Elphicke

Posts by Natalie Elphicke

Natalie Elphicke is a non-executive director of a leading building society and a published policy writer on housing and housing finance with Policy Exchange and the Centre for Policy Studies. She was the first national director of the new Conservative Policy Forum.

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Natalie Elphicke: From tackling gangs to visa waivers, my five-step plan to take back control of our borders

We need to be clear and robust when it comes to tackling security and ending the abuses of European human rights laws.

Comment, Highlights | By Natalie Elphicke | 26 May 2020 at 6:20 am | 69 comments

Natalie Elphicke: It’s time to break free from the long shadow of the financial crisis

The new Prime Minister needs to dream a dream for all of us, and then put in place the political measures to make it a reality.

Think Tanks | By Natalie Elphicke | 6 July 2019 at 1:00 pm | 129 comments

Natalie Elphicke: The private renting experiment has failed six million people. Here’s an alternative approach.

There is compelling evidence that there are only two tenures – social housing and home ownership – by which wellbeing of people is supported effectively.

Think Tanks | By Natalie Elphicke | 30 July 2018 at 11:00 am | 112 comments

Natalie Elphicke: Not since the moon landings have we built 300,000 houses a year. Here’s how that target can be met.

Right now, a whole host of things are said to be top infrastructure priorities. Yet, remarkably, housing is not among them. This needs to change.

Comment, Highlights | By Natalie Elphicke | 22 January 2018 at 6:20 am | 40 comments

Natalie Elphicke: The Conservative manifesto’s radical plan for housing

It both firmly believes in home-owning democracy and aims to be a friend to renters too.

Comment | By Natalie Elphicke | 28 May 2017 at 12:00 pm | 15 comments

Natalie Elphicke: The refugee challenge – a chance to harness social finance for housing

For every safe home we make for our refugee neighbours, we could build up to another two or more homes to meet current domestic need, across all tenures.

Comment, Highlights | By Natalie Elphicke | 13 September 2015 at 6:30 am | 25 comments

Natalie Elphicke: How to provide social housing more fairly

Modernisation of the current arrangements for leases would bring the arrangements into line with modern housing choices.

Comment, Highlights | By Natalie Elphicke | 18 July 2015 at 6:30 am | 29 comments

Natalie Elphicke: Resenting our elders profits nobody

This government must empower and inspire today’s young to achieve under it what their parents did under Thatcher and Major.

Comment | By Natalie Elphicke | 27 February 2015 at 3:40 pm | 73 comments

Natalie Elphicke: How to make a modern right to buy affordable

As well as a mechanism for home ownership, the finances must be right, too.

Comment | By Natalie Elphicke | 19 February 2015 at 1:00 pm | 17 comments

Natalie Elphicke: A modern right to buy

The UK has a poor record on home ownership, which has been in decline since 2003. Here is a potential solution.

Comment | By Natalie Elphicke | 17 February 2015 at 12:00 pm | 28 comments

Natalie Elphicke: Let’s not drive original thinkers, innovators and speakers out of politics

There is a moral in the conflated row exactly a week ago over Lord Freud’s remarks.

Comment | By Natalie Elphicke | 22 October 2014 at 4:00 pm | 17 comments

Natalie Elphicke: The dangers of Miliband’s Mansion Tax

The most likely impact of this policy is the national revaluation exercise in order to re-band council and national taxes that Labour was forced to abandon in 2010.

Comment, Highlights | By Natalie Elphicke | 24 September 2014 at 6:30 am | 49 comments

Natalie Elphicke: Learning the real value of social housing

Housing association profits from social tenants have increased tenfold in five years – is that right or fair?

Comment, Highlights | By Natalie Elphicke | 27 August 2014 at 6:30 am | 8 comments

Natalie Elphicke: In defence of Help to Buy

We need a property-owning democracy – not a rentocracy.

Comment, Highlights | By Natalie Elphicke | 23 May 2014 at 6:30 am | 25 comments

Natalie Elphicke: How to break down the barriers between renting and owning

In our new report, Nation Rent, we set out how could people to rent and buy over time and as their circumstances allow.

Highlights, Think Tanks | By Natalie Elphicke | 7 March 2014 at 6:20 am | 19 comments

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