James Gleeson

A few days ago Manchester City Council published a press release with an eye-catching factoid.

Peter Apps recently wrote a Substack (initially free to read, now behind a paywall) about the housing policies of the UK government and the Mayor of London, and in doing so cited a research report I wrote in 2023 on the affordability impacts of new housing

The Green Alliance recently hosted a webinar on whether it’s possible to build to build 1.5 million homes (the UK government target for this parliament) without accelerating the climate crisis, and wrote up some of the key points here.

The Global Human Settlement Layer is a geographic dataset produced by the EU’s Copernicus Earth observation programme, combining satellite and Census data to create fine-grained population and built environment data for the entire planet.

The topic of empty homes attracts quite a lot of attention in England, given what seems to be a severe shortage of available housing.

I’ve set up an account at Mastodon, on the ‘econtwitter’ server.

How do rates of multiple property ownership in Britain compare to the rest of Europe?

Paul Krugman recently published a short paper about growing economic disparities betweeen US regions, arguing that this constitutes a ‘third great transition’ after an urbanisation trend that lasted until around 1920 and a suburbanisation trend that lasted

Various media including The Guardian reported this week on data released by ONS showing that Ribble Valley was “officially” the happiest place in the UK in 2018/19.

If land prices determine house prices, and if land is fixed in supply, then rises in demand for housing feed straight into higher housing costs.