Housing policy in the Anglosphere: SMF report series funded by Nuffield Foundation
The Social Market Foundation is being funded by the Nuffield Foundation to look for answers to the UK’s housing crisis through an analysis of policies in the Anglosphere.
The project consists of five reports, focusing on a different aspect of the housing crisis. Each of the reports is a comparative study of housing policy internationally, drawing on a combination of over 20 expert interviews and a literature review. There is a particular focus on Australia, Canada, Ireland and New Zealand in this study, although other case studies are used where relevant. As English speaking, liberal market democracies, they share many of the same challenges that the UK faces in its housing sector, and so solutions and failures found there are especially instructive.
The reports
Dwelling on it: Housing crises in the English speaking world
This introductory paper provides an overview of the scale of the crisis in homeownership, private renting, social housing and homelessness across the UK, Ireland, Australia, Canada and New Zealand.
Home economics: Financial policies to increase homeownership
This second report surveys homeownership challenges and policies in the UK, Australia, New Zealand, Canada and Ireland to understand what has gone wrong and how we might fix it.
Let down: Rental regulations, subsidies and tenants’ rights across the English-speaking world
This third report looks at lessons for making renting in the UK a more attractive long-term option from from across the English-speaking world and beyond.
Affordable living: Alternatives to the traditional homeownership model
This fourth report looks at the role social and cooperative housing can play in tackling the housing crisis and what the UK can learn from other countries.
Beyond the comfort zone: How can planning reform boost housing supply and affordability?
This final report looks at how effective planning reform is at increasing supply and how the UK can learn from failures elsewhere to ensure it succeeds here.
About the Nuffield Foundation
The Nuffield Foundation is an independent charitable trust with a mission to advance social well-being. It funds research that informs social policy, primarily in Education, Welfare, and Justice. The Nuffield Foundation is the founder and co-funder of the Nuffield Council on Bioethics, the Ada Lovelace Institute and the Nuffield Family Justice Observatory. The Foundation has funded this project, but the views expressed are those of the authors and not necessarily the Foundation. Website: www.nuffieldfoundation.org Twitter: @NuffieldFound