Could taxing land more than income fix the UK housing crisis?
- Written by Nick Gallent, Professor of Housing and Planning, The Bartlett School of Planning, Faculty of the Built Environment, UCL
Giulia Hetherington|UnsplashFifty years ago, a group of activists occupied London’s Centre Point Tower in a fabled episode of direct action on housing. At the time, in January 1974, England was beset by rising homelessness and too many empty homes. One of the protesters, Ron Bailey, recently pointed out that this situation “was pretty...
