Social Market Foundation

Emulating the co-operative housing sectors in Canada and Scandinavia could help ease the UK’s housing crisis, according to a new paper out today. Canada’s co-op sector is three times bigger than the UK’s, and co-ops account for almost a quarter of Swedish homes.

Fears that stricter regulations will reduce the supply of rental properties are overblown, according to new research from the Social Market Foundation (SMF) think tank.

Housing secretary Michael Gove risks renters’ rights and wellbeing by delaying a ban on no-fault evictions based on false claims that Britain’s rental sector would collapse, a cross-party think tank has warned.

High street shopping units left empty by the collapse of retail businesses should be converted into new homes built by the public sector, according to a report from the Social Market Foundation (SMF).