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Toby Lloyd

7 months

Why do the policies announced at party conferences always seem to unravel so fast? The key thing to understand is that conference announcements are completely different from everything else you will hear from the government…. a🧵

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Toby Lloyd

@tobylloyd

4 years

Now we’re talking. Easy, cheap, effective. Do this now.

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@modacitylife

4 years

This summer, Rotterdam will allow all businesses—from restaurants to hairdressers—to convert the parking spaces in front of their building into retail space. The owner may build their own deck, or borrow a free one from the municipality. No permit needed.

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Toby Lloyd

@tobylloyd

1 year

Nice to see The Economist describe having less than 50% public housing as an obvious failing in a competitive capitalist city. They’re right - open, trading cities need to control land or the property market will eat your economy - but startling to see it asserted so casually.

Mike Bird

@Birdyword

1 year

Our Banyan columnist on the long-running rivalry between Singapore and Hong Kong: "Recently the balance shifted. There is clearly no contest anymore. It is game over in favour of Singapore. As a consequence, Banyan has moved there."

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Toby Lloyd

@tobylloyd

1 year

Really recommend this ⁦ @BBCRadio4 ⁩ series - looking at positive and radical solutions to the mess of our housing system. First one on Vienna is fascinating, Barcelona coming up soon. And i’m in the last one!

Rental Health - Rental Health: Solutions - Vienna - BBC Sounds

As the cost of rent continues to rise across the UK, Kirsty Lang looks for some solutions.

www.bbc.co.uk

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Toby Lloyd

@tobylloyd

5 years

The sorry, fascinating, saga of Starter Homes finally reaches its inevitable end: a thread. Starter homes pledged by government in 2014, but none built, says watchdog

None of pledged starter homes built, says watchdog

Government plans to build 200,000 affordable homes in England have come to nothing, the National Audit Office says.

www.bbc.com

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Toby Lloyd

@tobylloyd

4 years

Really hope this is nonsense. A fire sale of public land - into a falling market - would be the dumbest possible way to revive the economy or the public finances, let alone build a positive legacy out of the crisis.

Much will go up in smoke as ministers opt for fire sale of public land

A government spending money hand over fist will turn to the private sector, wooing it with assets going cheap

www.theguardian.com

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Toby Lloyd

@tobylloyd

7 years

Anyone interested in why we don't build enough affordable homes, and how to fix it, must read this @FT piece.

Major land reform urged to fix UK housing crisis

Campaigners say councils must gain right to buy land cheaply for affordable homes

www.ft.com

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Toby Lloyd

@tobylloyd

4 years

It's not rocket science: “In one year, bike use in Paris is up 54 percent... the culmination of years of growing restrictions on cars, the introduction of bike-sharing services, and most recently the construction of bike lanes.”

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Toby Lloyd

@tobylloyd

6 months

This is amazing: you can instantly see what any street would look like if we prioritised people, greenery and active travel instead of cars and parking.

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Toby Lloyd

@tobylloyd

7 months

@Gilesyb The cable car over the Thames. Fun, but pointless as transport infrastructure.

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Toby Lloyd

@tobylloyd

5 years

Brilliant of example of what’s possible if we refuse to accept mediocrity. ‘Norwich council houses win Stirling architecture prize

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Toby Lloyd

@tobylloyd

4 years

Very significant that Tony Pidgley, one of the biggest housebuilders out there, backs reform of Compulsory Purchase law to end land hoarding. One of the most effective things govt could do to get more affordable housing and infrastructure built.

Berkeley Group founder backs radical reform of laws to ending 'land hoarding'

One of Britain’s top housebuilders has backed radical reform of property laws to reverse the decline of home ownership by ending the hoarding of land and triggering a new wave of development.

www.telegraph.co.uk

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Toby Lloyd

@tobylloyd

3 years

Delighted to discover (via @JonnElledge ) that someone ( @russellcurtis ) has done the study I've always wanted to see - all of London's golf courses mapped and analysed as potential housing sites. Amazing work!

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Toby Lloyd

@tobylloyd

4 years

Jeez. When we face crises in loneliness, climate change and housing affordability there's no excuse for building rubbish places. We know how to do better. Hoping the forthcoming 'Building Better, Building Beautiful Commission' will mark a step change.

Serious design flaws in many housing estates, report claims

New developments lack basic amenities such as shops and playgrounds

www.theguardian.com

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Toby Lloyd

@tobylloyd

2 years

@benrileysmith @Telegraph Extending the Roght to Buy to housing association tenants had been in virtual every Conservative manifesto since the 1980s… which suggests you might need to look at why it hasn’t happened yet.

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Toby Lloyd

@tobylloyd

6 years

Amazing new data - plus maps! - on how much land the big housebuilders own.

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Toby Lloyd

@tobylloyd

3 years

Nice illustration. This isn’t even reducing driving: just using precious urban space better. How many junctions could be parklets, playgrounds or planters?

scoot!

@ScootFoundation

3 years

There are so many streets in Auckland that need this treatment

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Toby Lloyd

@tobylloyd

7 years

Jeez. Fully 84% of government spend on housing goes into inflating house prices - sorry, 'supporting the private market'

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Toby Lloyd

@tobylloyd

4 years

Important point this. Long term funding for social housing supply would help the entire industry - including the private sector - to build more, ride out business cycles better, innovate and drive productivity.

Ten-year social housing funding cycles could boost construction productivity by 70%, says report

Ten-year funding cycles for social housing could boost productivity in the UK construction industry by up to 70%, a new report has claimed.

www.insidehousing.co.uk

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Toby Lloyd

@tobylloyd

6 years

It’s time to call the housing crisis what it really is: the largest transfer of wealth in living memory. @L__Macfarlane is on fire here: house price growth is a zero-sum game, as just land value inflation, not an increase in production.

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Toby Lloyd

@tobylloyd

6 years

I did @bbcpm prog this afternoon, debating the sudden outburst of cross-party interest in capturing land values for public benefit, with the @iealondon . It was terrifying: (17mins in)

BBC Radio 4 - PM, 02/02/2018

Carolyn Quinn with interviews, context and analysis.

www.bbc.co.uk

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Toby Lloyd

@tobylloyd

7 years

ALL affordable homes cut from luxury Battersea scheme on 'viability' grounds. This rules must be changed.

Developers cannot be allowed to keep breaking their promises on affordable housing | Shelter

In the aftermath of the Grenfell tragedy, the priority is to find secure, affordable homes for survivors in their community, and make sure they have all the support they need to move forward with…

blog.shelter.org.uk

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@tobylloyd

6 years

Oliver Letwin is on the right track: it’s not a shortage of bricks, roof planning permissions, that limits housing supply. It’s a business model that has to maximise market sale prices. Solution is to build more affordable homes, in addition to the market:

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@tobylloyd

7 years

My book Rethinking the Economics of Land and Housing, with @L__Macfarlane and @jryancollins , is out today!

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Toby Lloyd

@tobylloyd

3 years

Thought I'd seen every tortuous argument against reclaiming streets from cars - but here's one US city reinstating traffic (against overwhelming majority support) because the people-friendly high street generated *too much* business....

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Toby Lloyd

@tobylloyd

6 years

Right to Buy has gone from boosting homeownership to boosting private property portfolios - and so lowering homeownership.

Peter Apps

@PeteApps

6 years

In Milton Keynes, more than 70% of former Right to Buy homes are being rented privately. This councillor has bought up a portfolio of 10

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Toby Lloyd

@tobylloyd

4 years

Spot on. Blaming planning, for all its imperfections, for economic weakness and even for poor developments, is like blaming healthcare for the existence of disease. The system needs powering up, not further dismantling.

Shaun Spiers

@ShaunSpiers1

4 years

I'm hearing rumours that some in the government want to kick start the economy by liberalising (ie weakening) the #planning system. A reminder: this has been tried umpteen times before and it doesn't work. 1/

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Toby Lloyd

@tobylloyd

2 years

Ever wondered why we can always seem to find the money for new roads, but not for far cheaper and better investments in sustainable transport? @djjmilner has the answer: dodgy algorithms and outdate assumptions buried in transport planning models. #ComputerSaysRoad

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Toby Lloyd

@tobylloyd

7 months

Planting more trees in our cities is simply one of the best things we can do for our health, our economy and our planet. Seminal @createstreets compiles the evidence from around the world, and sets out what we need to do to green up Britain's cities.

Give everyone a right to grow trees, says government tsar

Red tape is depriving towns and cities of greenery. Now a new report is calling for it to be made easier for people and communities to plant in public spaces

www.thetimes.co.uk

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Toby Lloyd

@tobylloyd

4 years

Ignore the lazy stereotypes about community-led housing projects being for middle class hippies in affluent areas: research shows they are actually found in poorer and left behind neighbourhoods across the country.

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Toby Lloyd

@tobylloyd

6 years

Two thirds of local authorities in England did not build a single new socially rented home last year. #AffordableHousingStatsDay

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Toby Lloyd

@tobylloyd

3 years

Hot off the press, and just in time to help a new ministerial team to get levelling up right! Join me, @vidhyaalakeson and @KwasiKwarteng for the launch on Monday.

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Toby Lloyd

@tobylloyd

6 years

Ricardo's Law in action: efficiency gains that lower cost of goods are instantly absorbed by rising land rents. Result: only property owners actually get richer. 'Rising burden of housing costs shown by 60-year UK spending survey' via @FT

Rising burden of housing costs shown by 60-year UK spending survey

Share of family budgets devoted to housing doubles while food and clothing halves

www.ft.com

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Toby Lloyd

@tobylloyd

7 years

It's happened: private renting has overtaken mortgaged homeownership in London. We're heading back to feudalism.

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Toby Lloyd

@tobylloyd

7 years

Small crowded island? Fully 13% of England is green belt, 11% is developed. Great map here:

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Toby Lloyd

@tobylloyd

4 years

Good to see @TheEconomist doing a proper, in-depth series on housing. Only three pieces in, but so far it's far more intelligent and balanced than the standard media commentary. It even recognised the importance of tax systems and credit supply:

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Toby Lloyd

@tobylloyd

7 years

Absolutely searing article from @jo_under_wood on the hidden homelessness housing lawyers encounter every day.

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Toby Lloyd

@tobylloyd

6 years

Why we must build more homes: in which I use my last ever Shelter blog to argue with lots of men on the internet.

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Toby Lloyd

@tobylloyd

3 years

Particularly harrowing example of the damage mid-century urban road planning did to cities. This is why so many places need to go on a 'road diet' now. #NoPlaceLeftBehind

Politics & Education

@PoliticsAndEd

3 years

An infamous "We Ruined Our Own Cities" file from Detroit.

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Toby Lloyd

@tobylloyd

6 years

Worst myth in housing and infrastructure debate is that landowners currently get a market price: they don't - they get a monopoly price, which is stifling growth.

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@tobylloyd

7 months

Labour are combining the @createstreets approach to designing walkable, popular neighbourhoods with the effective delivery mechanism of the New Towns. Housing developers could override local objections under Labour, says Starmer

Housing developers could override local objections under Labour, says Starmer

Party leader declares himself a ‘yimby’ in his drive to get an extra 300,000 homes built each year

www.theguardian.com

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Toby Lloyd

@tobylloyd

8 years

Renting in England is rubbish, but we can fix it: new podcast from @JohnBibby4 + @garveykev

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Toby Lloyd

@tobylloyd

7 years

@paulmasonnews Like this one?

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Toby Lloyd

@tobylloyd

6 years

'Rethinking the Economics of Land and Housing’ made @martinwolf_ ’s best economics books of 2017! Get it here:

Best books of 2017: Economics

Martin Wolf selects his must-read titles

www.ft.com

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Toby Lloyd

@tobylloyd

3 years

Fascinating thread. I had no idea about the long and conflictual history of play streets - shows there’s nothing inevitable about streets being dominated by cars. We can and must reclaim public space for people, and especially kids.

Adam Tranter

@adamtranter

3 years

A thread on Play Streets - how society demonised children, briefly gave them places to play before shunning them for cars. And what might be next? 1835: Highway Act bans street games on Highway. 1860: 12-year-old George Dunn sent to prison for 5 days for playing in the street.

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@tobylloyd

3 years

Let no-one say it can’t be done. We don’t have to accept ever rising traffic, congestion and pollution.

Qagggy!

@Qagggy

3 years

Overall, the reduction in cars traveling in Paris has been dramatic, dropping by 44%. “Out of 100 cars circulating in Paris in 2002, 56 remain.”

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Toby Lloyd

@tobylloyd

4 years

It turns out landlords don’t set rents after all, the market does.... as landlords themselves insisted when their interest costs plummeted but they didn’t feel the need to pass the saving on as lower rents.

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Toby Lloyd

@tobylloyd

7 years

Since the viability loophole was introduced into national planning rules in 2012, affordable homes delivered through S106 have plummeted.

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Toby Lloyd

@tobylloyd

8 months

Urban space is one of our most precious resources, but we waste far too much of it on needlessly wide, dangerously fast roads. Time to turn the roadbelt into new homes and great places. Nice write-up of @createstreets report by @dezeen

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Toby Lloyd

@tobylloyd

4 years

Brilliant blog, in which @jryancollins nails the question of what drives excess house prices, interest rates or supply? Spoiler: it's partly both, but mainly credit supply.

When it comes to high house prices, it’s not enough to just blame low interest rates

Record low rates are a necessary but not sufficient condition to explain the long upward march of house prices in advanced economies

medium.com

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Toby Lloyd

@tobylloyd

4 years

Supporting Community-led Housing is a no brainier for any government that wants to tackle affordability and improve ‘left behind’ places. Really welcome research demonstrating its value from @community_land

Nationwide Foundation

@NationwideFdtn

4 years

Community-led Housing: improved wellbeing and proven value for money. More detail on @community_land ’s new research launched today. #ukhousing

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@tobylloyd

3 years

Exactly right. Government keeps failing to see the obvious political reality that it would end up paying the Bill eventually. Foot dragging pointlessly has increased the costs as well as the misery, making government look incompetent as well as cruel.

Vicky Spratt

@Victoria_Spratt

3 years

At some point in the last three years since Grenfell, the human impact of unsafe building materials got lost in a political spat about who should pay. Millions have been trapped, knowing that their home is dangerous & could bankrupt them. That mental torment is unforgivable.

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@tobylloyd

3 years

Full report of the #NoPlaceLeftBehind commission is here:

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@tobylloyd

4 years

The plight of small builders is truly alarming. As we intervene so dramatically in the market, we have to make sure we don't just entrench the power of the biggest players at the expense of SMEs, building quality, or affordability.

Coronavirus is a ticking time-bomb for Britain's housing market

This pandemic risks decimating smaller construction firms and worsening the housing crisis

www.telegraph.co.uk

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Toby Lloyd

@tobylloyd

4 years

Homeownership is the biggest chunk of wealth in the UK - and unlike other (more productive) forms of wealth it’s a zero-sum game: one generation’s wealth gain is another’s loss.

Institute for Fiscal Studies

@TheIFS

4 years

Here are 6 important challenges the UK economy faces as #GE2019 approaches. Young people have been struggling to accumulate wealth at the rate that their predecessors did. The biggest contributory factor has been the collapse in homeownership. Read more:

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Toby Lloyd

@tobylloyd

7 months

Fascinating piece. Re-making the world to suit cars was always a political choice: we must now choose whether to keep doing that or to make cities better for people instead. The war on motorists: the secret history of a myth as old as cars themselves

The war on motorists: the secret history of a myth as old as cars themselves

From safe speed limits to low-traffic neighbourhoods, the argument about how much we build the world around motorists has raged since the turn of the twentieth century - and is still gathering pace

www.theguardian.com

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Toby Lloyd

@tobylloyd

1 year

@jburnmurdoch @brendannickg @Gilesyb Very true. Apartments without gardens/front doors etc need better space standards than houses, but we invariably treat it the other way around.

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@tobylloyd

8 years

Feels like a moment to point out that rough sleeping is only the tip of the homelessness iceberg:

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@tobylloyd

5 months

Three NEW schools to be demolished. Key line: ‘All the schools were built under the Department for Education’s £3bn modular framework, set up in 2020 to fastrack construction and deliver better value for money.’ Three years after Grenfell we were still cutting corners.

Peter Apps

@PeteApps

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"It was forced to close after being open to students for less than two years over concerns it could collapse in an extreme event like heavy snow or high winds." I do hope we're asking the right structural integrity questions for these high rise modular buildings going up!

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@tobylloyd

7 years

Speculative housebuilding gives the community the worst deal possible, as developers compete to offer landowner most

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@tobylloyd

3 years

There is an amazingly strong consensus on how to make cities better: far fewer cars, more and cheaper homes, mixed-use neighbourhoods, places to meet people, and communities in control. Let's do it now! The path to the post-Covid city via @financialtimes

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@tobylloyd

3 years

Useful reminder that, contrary to the noisy minority, the silent majority are actually in favour of making cities nicer places for humans. The bikelash paradox: how cycle lanes enrage some but win votes

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@tobylloyd

7 years

This is the viability loophole allows developers to get out of providing affordable homes we need. #Newsnight

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@tobylloyd

5 years

Tentatively returning to the policy Twitter after 18 months down the rabbit hole, and lo! the subversive counter-narrative that we don’t actually need to build lots of homes, as promoted with annoying brilliance by @ianmulheirn , is STILL gaining ground.

Housing crisis? What housing crisis?

A recent report's finding that the UK doesn't need more housing supply is challenging long-held assumptions

www.housingtoday.co.uk

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@tobylloyd

11 years

Can't buy? Here's why: decades of housing failure summarised in one graph. http://t.co/8wqR7Y5g

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@tobylloyd

1 year

We're facing a housing market freeze that will see cash investors swoop in to buy up homes for short-term lets, while first-time buyers are frozen out. A thread on what’s likely to happen and how Government should respond, from our new @jrf_uk report:

Reboot: building a housing market that works for all

The UK has entered a housing market downturn, sparked by higher inflation and interest rates. This is already having far-reaching consequences for individuals, the housing system and the wider...

www.jrf.org.uk

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@tobylloyd

7 years

@thetommoriarty @Shins1874 @paulmasonnews No, we're not. We've been campaigning on welfare for years. Wd love Labour to join our call to end LHA freeze.

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@tobylloyd

6 years

Blimey. @NickBoles isn't pulling any punches here: - govt building 500,000 affordable homes - new towns - Community Land Trusts - ending the housebuilder oligopoly - compulsory purchase reform.... Excellent proposals all.

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@tobylloyd

3 years

Launch of the report for No Place Left Behind: the Commission into Prosperity and Community Placemaking will be on the 20th September 2021 from 11am to 12.15pm. There will be a live stream of the event from the House of Commons. Tickets here:

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@tobylloyd

4 years

We need a rent holiday, urgently. If it’s right for mortgage holders, who are on average richer and more secure,it’s surely right for renters too.

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@tobylloyd

2 years

This story is perfectly designed to wind me up. How about a petition to remove the golf course to provide housing, public parks and cycle ways?

APPG for Cycling & Walking

@APPGCW

2 years

A golf club has started an online petition to remove a protected cycle lane, so that the space can be used as “an overspill for parking during major competition days.”

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@tobylloyd

2 years

Such a classic film. Let no-one tell you this country is full, or we have no room for X - we just choose to devote so much of it to grazing cows and sheep.

Dan Raven-Ellison

@DanRavenEllison

6 years

Watch the #UKin100seconds . Each second = 1% of what the UK looks like from the air. Make sure you turn your sound on. Seen it? Help change how we think about the UK. Share it with someone, look behind the scenes and find out more .

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5 years

RIP Starter Homes. The irony was that there was the kernel of a good idea in there: Community Land Trusts have been doing great things with a similar approach for years. See for an example.

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@tobylloyd

5 years

So govt is rolling out the tired old cliche about 'slashing the red tape to build more homes'. Sigh. Bit sad really. What happened to the Sajid Javid of 2018 who recognised the need to change the developer business model as well?

It's time to get building: Sajid Javid pledges to break the housebuilding logjam

"My message today is very clear:

www.telegraph.co.uk

Tom Newton Dunn

@tnewtondunn

5 years

Excl: Major revolution to relax planning permission to be unveiled by Tory Cabinet ministers at conference to turbo charge house building

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@tobylloyd

4 years

With no expertise in epidemiology or medicine don’t know what to make of the pandemic. But I’m confident it somehow confirms positions I’ve banged on about for years, or presents a historic opportunity to do things I think should be done. Probably both.

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@tobylloyd

3 years

This is amazing - and inspiring: what would you do with 700,000m2 of new urban public space?

World Economic Forum

@wef

3 years

Paris halves street parking and asks residents what they want to do with the space #Paris #Sustainability

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@tobylloyd

7 years

This is how the viability loophole works. It's losing us 2,500 affordable homes a year in just 11 council areas.

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@tobylloyd

3 years

Left behind places need trees, trams and tricycles - and communities need investment, trust and a the powers to regenerate their own neighbourhoods. Join us for the launch of our report at 11am today

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@tobylloyd

8 years

Sick of hearing that renters 'love the flexibility of renting.' Only 2.5% actually do.

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7 years

@paulmasonnews Paul, that's unfair. We - boringly - want to see detail of the proposal before judging. We call for longer tenancies w/ controlled rises.

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@tobylloyd

6 years

Fascinating piece in Bloomberg. I did not know that Walras - founder of neo-classical economics - assumed all land would be nationalised.

The Problem With Expensive Real Estate

Soaring land costs threaten growth and worsen inequality. And nobody really knows what to do about it.

www.bloomberg.com

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@tobylloyd

10 months

Neo-feudalism isn't just a disaster for equality, fairness and social mobility, it's also grossly inefficient: accumulating housing wealth is a zero-sum game that distorts rather than grows the economy.

FT Data

@ftdata

10 months

Home ownership in Britain has become a hereditary privilege

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7 months

Love this. When giant squids walked the streets….

Robin Rimbaud - Scanner

@robinrimbaud

7 months

As dangerous as the decaying roads of the UK are, I'm still fascinated by them often revealing their history beneath the modern surfaces. Amazing to think how close the past really is in a sense.

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6 months

This is leadership! I will never understand why we allowed the size, weight, lethality and fuel consumption of cars to balloon in recent decades.

Cities Today

@Cities_Today

6 months

“While the importance of cars in Paris has continued to decrease over the past ten years, at the same time, the average size of cars has increased in the capital.” Paris announces referendum on SUVs 👉 @Paris #urbanmobility #parking

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@tobylloyd

6 years

With @sajidjavid 's comments in The Times yesterday, and this from @JohnHealey_MP today some very welcome consensus may be breaking out on the need for land values to support public benefit and more affordable homes.

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@tobylloyd

7 years

Confused by the range of 'affordable' housing products in London? Good @IPPR report summarises THIRTEEN varieties:

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@tobylloyd

7 years

Oh no, not again.... wasting public money by inflating house prices. Like the problem was homes being too cheap.

Jim Pickard 🐋

@PickardJE

7 years

Theresa May's big conference giveaway on Monday: loads more cash for Help to Buy....apparently.

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Toby Lloyd

@tobylloyd

4 years

Conservative MP Shaun Bailey makes a passionate plea for the centre right to take social housing seriously and treat social tenants with respect: ‘we put aside politics to tackle tough sleeping, now we need rockets up backsides on social housing’. #buildsocialhousing

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Toby Lloyd

@tobylloyd

2 years

@djjmilner We lost the streets to traffic, and then literally banned kids from playing in much of the rest of the city. The ‘etc’ says it all (h/t Stefan Klenke):

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Toby Lloyd

@tobylloyd

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Shocking but entirely expected. This isn’t even about politics but the Whitehall obsession with ‘value for money’, ‘assitionality’ and other abstract rules. Gove’s department hands back £1.9bn meant to tackle England’s housing crisis

Gove’s department hands back £1.9bn meant to tackle England’s housing crisis

Exclusive: Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities returning money to Treasury after struggling to find projects to spend it on

www.theguardian.com

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Toby Lloyd

@tobylloyd

2 years

Section 21 ‘no fault’ evictions for private renting tenants to be scrapped! Levelling Up White Paper (or rather, the press release) promises to finally deliver on the promise first made in 2019. Great news for renters. #LevellingUp @genrentuk

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Toby Lloyd

@tobylloyd

4 years

Yes to all of this. Outrageous how much of our most valuable asset - urban land - is reserved for cars, a harmful, wasteful minority activity. Lockdown has given us a unique chance to redistribute urban space - the need for physical distancing makes it essential.

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Toby Lloyd

@tobylloyd

7 years

If Hammond wants UK to invest in production, he must reduce housing speculation. … Germany vs UK credit allocation:

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Toby Lloyd

@tobylloyd

2 years

Excellent news that the Govt is planning proper, and long overdue, regulation of standards in the Private Rented Sector. Right to see this as critical for levelling up - rogue landlords and substandard homes are a blight on left behind communities.

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Toby Lloyd

@tobylloyd

4 years

The Building Better Building Beautiful report is doing an amazing job of winning support from the full spectrum of views in the room here at the launch. Great that it goes far beyond planning and design: ownership, finance, tax, skills - all as vital! #BBBBC

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Toby Lloyd

@tobylloyd

7 years

Think you mean 'unaffordability'....

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Toby Lloyd

@tobylloyd

3 years

Social infrastructure - community centres, arts, heritage, sports, civic organisations, community businesses, local transport etc - really matters. And investment in it pays off. Impressive research from @LocalTrust and @FrontierEcon

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Toby Lloyd

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7 years

Brilliant FT piece: Major land reform urged to fix UK housing crisis

Major land reform urged to fix UK housing crisis

Campaigners say councils must gain right to buy land cheaply for affordable homes

www.ft.com

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Toby Lloyd

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7 years

Lack of affordable housing "the biggest policy failure of the last 50 years" says @SirBobKerslake on @BBCWorldTonight . Lower land prices key

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7 months

Entitled drivers flouting the law with vandalism in response to modest changes to their freedom to mow down children, 1930s version

Carlton Reid

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When introduced in 1935 as a means of protecting pedestrians, Belisha Beacons were targetted by vandals. In the first four months of their operation, 3,000 of the 15,000 beacons installed in London had been destroyed, reported The Telegraph.

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