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Hope for housing reform?


Labour leader Keir Starmer promised to be “with the builders, not the blockers” while  Conservative backbenches are agitating for pro-housing policies.

  • The housing policy debate has reignited, with politicians from across the political spectrum highlighting the need to reform England’s broken planning system to increase supply, reduce prices and boost productivity.

  • IEA research has repeatedly highlighted this problem for many decades — in 1988, the IEA published No Room! No Room! The Costs of the British Town and Country Planning System.

  • Details of Labour’s reforms remain scant, and opposition to housebuilding remains strong across the political spectrum.

  • Meanwhile, the Government has introduced renters reform legislation that bans no-fault evictions and requires higher housing standards. But could these nice-sounding policies backfire by encouraging landlords to increase rents or exit the market?

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Date: Monday, 22 May | Time: 6.00pm — 8.15pm | Location: 2 Lord North Street, SW1P 3LB


Was Friedrich Hayek’s The Road to Serfdom valid when it was written or did it express an exaggerated fear? Is there a threat to our fundamental political liberties today and, if so, from where precisely does it emanate?


Panellists:

  • James Forder, IEA Academic and Research Director (Chair)

  • Dr Mark Pennington, Professor of Political Economy and Public Policy at Kings College London.

  • Inaya Folarin Iman, journalist, television presenter and Director of the Equiano Project.

  • Dr Kristian Niemietz, IEA Head of Political Economy.

  • Sherelle Jacobs, journalist and columnist at the Daily Telegraph.


If you would like to attend, please contact Daniel Freeman: [email protected].

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