Questions from the Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government:
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Leasehold reform
How should leasehold and commonhold reforms be designed to improve transparency and fairness for leaseholders (and freeholders on private and mixed use estates), protecting leaseholders from abuse and poor service, and driving increased take up of commonhold?
Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government, 2022
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The private rented sector
What does the evidence show in terms of the impact of regulation on private renters? (e.g. if landlords are required to invest heavily in their properties to improve standards, will rents rise?). How does that vary across the income groups of private renters?
Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government, 2022
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Housing supply and affordability
What are the benefits of a more diversified housing supply market (in the sense of having a varied mix of small, medium and large-sized developers)? Can they be monetised for use in business case appraisals?
Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government, 2022
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Housing supply and affordability
To what extent is housing tenure (e.g. social rented, private rented, home ownership etc) driven by choice? What drives people’s choices? For example, is private renting seen as a ‘stepping-stone’ to home ownership? And how does this vary across different geographical areas?
Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government, 2022
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Housing supply and affordability
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?
Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government, 2022
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Local economic performance and COVID-19
What can we learn from COVID-19 about helping local areas to be more resilient to economic, and other, shocks? And what is the impact of changes in demand for land, such as office, retail, housing etc in particular locations?
Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government, 2022
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Local economic performance and COVID-19
What is the emerging evidence of the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on the economies and productivity of cities and regions, coastal/rural, and deprived areas? How does this vary across the different parts of the UK?
Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government, 2022
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Local government and COVID-19
What does the evidence show was more or less effective about the particularly intense engagement between local and national government during the pandemic, and what we have learnt about the key enablers developed between the tiers of government in this last period? Which of these would most helpfully be sustained in future (e.g. data sharing)?
Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government, 2022
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Local government and COVID-19
What has the pandemic taught us are the necessary pre-conditions for effective devolution of a public service to the local tier? Within that, what has the pandemic taught us about how accountability, such as managing public money, should be managed? And where does the evidence show that centralisation is more appropriate?
Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government, 2022
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Local government and COVID-19
What has the pandemic taught us about what a good governance structure in local government looks like? How is this measured? And how can central government best support continuous improvement of place leadership?
Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government, 2022