UK HOUSING REVIEW 2025

CONTEMPORARY ISSUES

Each edition of the Review includes a number of chapters on Contemporary Issues. These are available in the print editions and downloadable here one year after publication. The chapters currently available from recent editions are listed below.

2023

  1. Housing, the economy and levelling up   Mark Stephens
  2. The private rented sector in the UK: Changes at different pace and trajectory   Kenneth Gibb
  3. Private finance for affordable housing investment: from debt to equity   Steve Partridge
  4. Social housing regulation - A fundamental shift?   Jules Birch

2022

  1. Thirty years of housing policy in the UK: The big picture   Mark Stephens
  2. Developments in the private rented sector   Tom Simcock
  3. Affordable housing supply in the UK: the challenges ahead   Peter Williams and John Perry
  4. Right to buy: the long view of a key aspect of UK housing policy   Alan Murie

2021

  1. 'Building back better' after Covid: lessons for housing policy from the 'lost decade'   Mark Stephens
  2. Planning reform: a zonal future?   Philip O'Brien
  3. The zero-carbon challenge   John Perry

2020

  1. Housing Supply   Mark Stephens, Kenneth Gibb and John Perry
  2. Funding housing associations: changing models for changing times?   Peter Williams, Piers Williamson and Samuel Marlow-Stevens
  3. Europe's changing housing systems: what can the UK learn?   Mark Stephen
  4. Affordable housing across the UK   John Perry

2019

  1. Land value capture through planning and taxation   Mark Stephens
  2. Social rented housing: More of the same or a real shift in policy?   John Perry
  3. The rapid rise of short-term lets and the implications for the housing market   Alasdair Rae

2018

  1. The realities of assistance to first-time buyers   Peter Williams and Steve Wilcox
  2. Planning frameworks and housing delivery   Mark Stephens
  3. How the purpose of social housing has changed and is changing   John Perry and Mark Stephens

2017

  1. A waiting game: how Brexit might affect the housing market, supply and demand   John Perry and Peter Williams
  2. Requiem for a relationship? Housing in the UK and the European Union   Mark Stephens
  3. Another turn of the screw: the further effects of 'welfare reform'   Steve Wilcox
  4. Some reflections from 25 years of the UK Housing Review   Steve Wilcox

2016

  1. Pushing the social sector to the margins   Steve Wilcox
  2. A decade of diminishing welfare   Steve Wilcox
  3. Evolving devolution   Mark Stephens

2015

  1. Where austerity bites: the current and future impacts of welfare reform on housing   Steve Wilcox and Peter Williams
  2. Divided generations - housing's growing impact on inequality   Peter Williams and Steve Wilcox
  3. Ten unresolved housing issues for the next government   John Perry

2014

  1. Turning the screw: welfare reforms in practice   Steve Wilcox
  2. Housing policy in the eye of the storm: recent experiences in the Republic of Ireland   Eddie Lewis