Extending Economic Cases for Housing Policies: Rents, Ownership and Assets
Research that reviews what the likely effects of sustained high and increasing rents in Australia will be on an economy, and stresses potential productivity effects.
After COVID, we’ll need a rethink to repair Australia’s housing system and the economy
Why Australia needs a policy reboot to transform the housing system from being part of the problem to part of the solution.
More Different Futures Housing Network: expert videos, topic reviews and network activity
See the expert videos and topic reviews from the work of the collaborative More Different Futures Network, exploring issues and possibilities for housing systems and policies in response to COVID-19.
Glasgow Commission for Economic Growth publishes economic recovery report
Report from the Glasgow Commission for Economic Growth on the city’s post-pandemic development.
More Different Futures: Housing after 2020
COVID-19 has exposed the fractured housing systems identified by the international Shaping Futures research project. Now the More Different Futures Network is starting work to create better housing systems that can support the recovery of the economy and society.
Housing and Infrastructure
The COVID crisis has created urgent needs for fast policy insights, such as rethinking urgent care for the homeless, the prevention of evictions and rent gouging and minimising the effects of reduced incomes on maintaining mortgage payments and home-ownership. Image credit: Tim Dennell on Flickr | CC BY 2.0 / In the recovery phase,…
UK2070 Commission publishes report on tackling regional inequalities
The final report by the UK2070 Commission into city and regional inequalities in the UK draws on work from Policy Scotland.
Changing Places, Evolving Perspectives: Spatial Economic Policies for Scotland
A policy colloquium to inform development of the ‘next’ phase of region and place policies in Scotland.
Housing wealth inequality in Scotland
Professor Duncan Maclennan from Policy Scotland has contributed to a new report on housing wealth inequality that has informed the work of the Scottish Poverty and Inequality Commission.