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The UK’s housing market is not delivering for low-to-middle income families. Families are spending more of their income on housing and getting less for their money; fewer families are enjoying the security of home ownership or a social rented tenancy, with millions more living in the insecure private rented sector; and house prices have surged relative to incomes. Our work focuses on understanding the causes and impact of these developments, and on the appropriate policy responses. We also publish a quarterly Housing Outlook, in which we spotlight some of the key issues affecting housing in the UK today, and track key indicators relating to market trends, housing’s impact on living standards, and housing policy developments.

Contacts

Lindsay Judge

Research Director
T: 0203 372 2951
E: lindsay.judge@resolutionfoundation.org

Felicia Odamtten

Economist
T: 0203 372 2916
E: felicia.odamtten@resolutionfoundation.org
Events

Building pressure?

Rising rents, and what to expect in the future

Register to attend in person or to receive access link for online viewers. The combination of high house prices and stagnating incomes over recent decades, coupled with the decline of…
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Housing is at the heart of the financial squeeze families are facing

In spite of rising wages and falling inflation, many households feel worse off than before

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We’re more than two years into the cost of living crisis, and some politicians are cheering its end off the back of falling inflation. However, given that more families say…
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Publications

A temporary thaw

An analysis of Local Housing Allowance uprating over time

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In the 2023 Autumn Statement, the Chancellor announced that the Local Housing Allowance (LHA) will be re-pegged to the 30th percentile of local rents in April 2024. This will be…
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Publications

Talking trade-offs

Deliberations on a higher-productivity future in the Birmingham and Greater Manchester urban areas

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The cities of Manchester and Birmingham may have illustrious economic histories, but today both underperform the national average on a number of key economic measures. This is especially the case…
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It’s getting hot in here

How ever-warmer UK summer temperatures will have an outsized impact on low-income households and low-paid workers

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Although the UK’s summer of 2023 has been something of a washout so far, the country is getting hotter, with temperatures over 40oC – first experienced in the UK in…
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Events

Making Greater Manchester great again

What is GM’s plausible path to greater prosperity?

This event was held in Manchester. Greater Manchester has long been centre-stage in visions of a more geographically equal country – from the Northern Powerhouse to levelling up. But the…
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