Alex Morton: Reform and supply and a shift to ownership. What the Government should do next on housing.

The first part of a ConHome series this week on housing and planning in the wake of the Queen’s Speech.

‘The Treasury is taking with one hand to give away with the other’. Think tanks react to the Spring Statement

Takes from the Centre for Policy Studies, the Adam Smith Institute, the TaxPayers’ Alliance, the Centre for Social Justice, and more.

Tom Clougherty: The Chancellor can help households next week by raising tax thresholds and rebooting energy policy

The second in a series of articles on how the Chancellor should approach the upcoming Spring Statement.

Tony Danker: Now is the moment for the Government to go for growth

Lumping more onto the UK’s tax burden – already at the highest sustained level seen in peacetime – cannot be the answer.

Dean Machin: Policymakers must understand the reasons people go to university – or else educational reforms will be resented

Attempts to push people on to technical courses at local further education colleges, among other proposals, could backfire.

Autumn Budget 2021: Think tank response round-up

How have think-tanks and campaign groups responded to the Chancellor’s fiscal and economic initiatives?

Tom Clougherty: Tax rises will trash the UK’s international competitiveness. But there is a better way.

The country is approaching a competitiveness cliff-edge. The Government must change course before it’s too late.

Anthony Browne: Increasing supply won’t fix the housing crisis. First time buyers need more power in the market.

Whole blocks of flats in London are sold off-plan to international investors, doing nothing to help Generation Rent.

Eamonn Ives: Markets, price signals, and supply-side reforms can hasten decarbonisation. Ministers take note.

Extending carbon pricing would serve as a constant pressure on emissions. But it won’t be enough on its own.

Alex Morton: Five ways in which we can Get Housing Done. And why Gove is the man for the job

If his mission is successful, he will hugely bolster the long-term future of the Conservative party.

Alex Morton: Why new Homes for Heroes proposals can be a win for all

They can increase housing supply, save the government further spending, and show key workers that their sacrifice has not been forgotten.

A new market in long-term fixed rate mortgages?

Building more houses is a necessary but not sufficient means of ensuring rising home ownership for younger people.

Let’s look at how to reduce the need to put people in care homes. Not just who should pick up the bill.

“Do not go gentle into that good night. Rage, rage against the dying of the light.” Here is my five point plan.

Alex Morton: We need to boost our brownfield developments. But that doesn’t mean a zero greenfield approach.

One of the more seductive myths in the housing debate is that there is enough brownfield land to satisfy our building needs.

Nick King: Luntz’s polling shows a crisis of confidence in capitalism. Here’s how we can change that.

Most of the media coverage has been on the survey’s woke and anti-woke findings, but there was another important discovery.