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How UK cities compare when it comes to greenhouse gas emissions and air quality, and why this matters for policy makers.
As you read this, one of the most radical reforms to the state in fifty years is already underway.
The North and Midlands underperforms because its export base performs poorly. If policy is to improve prosperity in this part of the country then it needs to remove the barriers that stop export businesses from investing.
Improving living standards requires raising the skills floor, and not just prioritising the highest earners, to drive economic growth and prosperity everywhere.
Big cities play a central role in generating wages in their regions, but their underperformance limits how much prosperity they generate.
This blog looks at how the Green Belt impacts the scale and location of housebuilding in England, as well as the potential opportunities for reform, using data from our ‘Restarting Housebuilding’ research series.
Funding social and other type of ‘affordable’ housebuilding through private-sector cross-subsidy has its place, but a ‘generational increase’ cannot be achieved without more direct public investment.
As part of its mission to drive up living standards, the Government wants to put more money in people’s pockets in every part of the UK. This is quite some task.
Centre for Cities have published local-level housebuilding data back to 1945. This blog explains how we got the data and how you can access it on our GitHub page.
Places that have a large reliance on one industry should be looking to diversify their economies rather than doubling down on their ‘strengths’.