{"id":31,"date":"2007-10-07T11:44:23","date_gmt":"2007-10-07T16:44:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/jjjj\/2007\/10\/07\/the-political-economy-of-housing-in-the-"},"modified":"2007-10-07T11:44:23","modified_gmt":"2007-10-07T16:44:23","slug":"the-political-economy-of-housing-in-the-uk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/jjjj\/2007\/10\/07\/the-political-economy-of-housing-in-the-uk\/","title":{"rendered":"The Political Economy of Housing in the UK"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Renters would seem to be a natural constituency of the Labour Party in the UK.  Why doesn&#8217;t Labour relax rules that limit construction, rules that primarily benefit owners?  More or less, I conjecture the answer is that a huge share of rental housing is government-owned &#8220;social housing.&#8221;  Despite substantial recent privatization of social housing, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.communities.gov.uk\/documents\/housing\/xls\/141677\" title=\"Data (xls)\">18% percent of the UK population continues to live in these units<\/a>, while only 12% of the population lives in private rental housing.  I tend to support policies that promote universal access to affordable housing, but supporting growth of the private rental sector should be part of this strategy.\u00a0 Right now Labour captures renters&#8217; votes by bolstering social housing instead.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Renters would seem to be a natural constituency of the Labour Party in the UK. Why doesn&#8217;t Labour relax rules that limit construction, rules that primarily benefit owners? More or less, I conjecture the answer is that a huge share of rental housing is government-owned &#8220;social housing.&#8221; Despite substantial recent privatization of social housing, 18% [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":283,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[415,2071],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-31","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-economics","category-housing"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/jjjj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/jjjj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/jjjj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/jjjj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/283"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/jjjj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=31"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/jjjj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/jjjj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/jjjj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/jjjj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}