Join us Tuesday, 22 September, at 6:00pm UK time

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Good afternoon,

I hope you'll be able to join us for our next exciting ASI webinar on Tuesday 22nd September at 6:00pm UK time.

This week we are joined by an expert panel to discuss the housing crisis; how it came to be, what exactly it is, and how it can be fixed.

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** It’s the Supply stupid!
Fixing the housing crisis
Tuesday, 22nd September 2020 at 6.00pm UK time
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It is a truth universally acknowledged that the UK is in something of a housing crisis. Home ownership has been declining for half a century. 90% of 25-34 year olds face average regional housing prices 3 to 4 times their income, up from less than half 20 years ago. Rent as a share of income has been rising, making the prospect of saving for mortgage deposit increasingly remote.


This August, the Government proposed an ambitious overhaul of the planning system, aiming to facilitate the end of the housing crisis through the annual construction of 300,000 new homes.


However, if the existence of a housing crisis is a truth universally acknowledged, the means by which it should be addressed is certainly not.


There are some who dispute the idea that lack of supply is driving the housing crisis, that planning reform will not actually do much to reduce rent or lower the price of home ownership, that the crisis is one of affordability and not of shortage.


Others have more specific reservations about the Government’s proposals, suggesting they could lead to overdevelopment in the south at the expense of the north, or that the standard of housing will be compromised.


We’ve assembled a top notch panel to discuss if and how the UK can build its way out of the housing crisis:

* John Macdonald (host): Head of Government Affairs, Adam Smith Institute


* Vera Kichanova is an urban policy researcher, journalist and civil rights activist currently working with Zaha Hadid Architects. Her comments have been published by The New York Times, Forbes, The Washington Post, The Wall Street Journal and The Telegraph.


* Sam Bowman is Director of Competition Policy at the International Center for Law and Economics and Senior Fellow at the Adam Smith Institute. He was previously an advisor at Fingleton, a London-based regulatory and competition advisory firm.



John Myers is co-founder of London YIMBY, a grassroots campaign to end the housing crisis with the support of local people.


Details:

Date: Tuesday, 22nd September 2020
Time: 6.00pm - 7.00pm (UK time)

The webinar will begin at 6.00pm, with an audience Q&A session taking place at approximately 6.45pm. The webinar will conclude at 7.00pm.

I hope you'll be able to join us.


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Yours sincerely,

John Macdonald, Head of Government Affairs
Adam Smith Institute
23 Great Smith St,
London SW1P 3DJ

Web: adamsmith.org
Email: [email protected]
Twitter: @MacdonaldJam ([link removed])

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