Glasgow has a large council sector characterized by a range of problems associated with low-income tenants, disrepair, insufficient resources and high levels of housing debt. Reluctantly, the council has come to the view that stock transfer, ultimately to local community-based housing...

The advent of the 'buy to let'; (BTL) phenomenon in the UK, apart from producing a new wave of individualized rental market investment, has been widely judged to be a speculative and destabilizing force in the housing market. This paper provides a detailed empirical investigation of new...

The U.K. government plans to introduce an attenuated property tax, based on banded capital values, to replace the community charge. This paper examines the case for a property-based form of local taxation and emphasizes the hitherto neglected question of its contribution to equity goals as a...

This paper addresses three questions. How unequal is access to urban employment and the wellbeing associated with it? What is the monetary value consumers place on access? How does the inequality of access correspond to the geographical pattern of unemployment? A novel approach is developed...

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Social housing in the UK is under increasing pressure to reform its archaic pricing systems that provide tenants with below market rents but in an incoherent and often ad hoc and unsystematic manner. English social housing is now well into a long term experiment to provide both convergence and a...

The current recession has major implications for residential-led regeneration activity across the UK. Current funding models are breaking down and the goals of regeneration activity will, for some time, be much harder to achieve. The Government getting to grips with the big picture is a...

One argument for increasing construction investment is the number of jobs and related multipliers associated with property investment. However, economic activity does not begin and end with actual construction: there are important backward linkages into the input markets for construction. If...