Is the housebuilding market more concentrated/less intensely competitive than other markets? How has this changed over time, and how does the UK compare in this respect with other countries? What are the implications of this?
Background
Including seeking to boost our evidence and understanding of what drives housing affordability, and how transitions and changes in people’s lives affect that
Next steps
The lead contacts are: Lesley Smith, Senior Principal Research Officer, Analysis, Research and Co-ordination Unit, Analysis and Data Directorate: Lesley.Smith@levellingup.gov.uk and David Hughes, Head of the Chief Scientific Adviser’s office: psChiefScientificAdviser@levellingup.gov.uk.
Source
This question was published as part of the set of ARIs in this document:
Topics
Related UKRI funded projects
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Prefabs sprouting: Modern Methods of Construction and the English housing crisis
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Why might this be relevant?
The project specifically focuses on the UK housebuilding market, its competitiveness, and implications, providing a comprehensive analysis.
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Urban Dynamics in a Complex World: The spatial dynamics of housing
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Why might this be relevant?
The project explores the dynamics of housing tenure choice and its influence on urban/suburban housing patterns, which is partially relevant to the question.
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Boosting the supply of affordable rented housing in the UK: learning from other countries
Places for People (PfP), one of the largest housing development and management organisations in the UK, will partner the Centre for Comparative Housing Research (CCHR) at De Montfort University in this knowledge exchange...
Funded by: ESRC
Why might this be relevant?
The project focuses on boosting the supply of affordable rented housing in the UK by learning from other countries, which is not directly relevant to the question.