{"id":72447,"date":"2023-10-19T06:21:29","date_gmt":"2023-10-19T05:21:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/?p=72447"},"modified":"2023-10-19T06:21:29","modified_gmt":"2023-10-19T05:21:29","slug":"the-housing-crisis-radical-ways-to-address-the-issue","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/2023\/10\/19\/the-housing-crisis-radical-ways-to-address-the-issue\/","title":{"rendered":"The housing crisis: radical ways to address the issue"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>One of the questions on Debate Night was on the Edinburgh housing crisis (which is much the same as that in most big cities). The BBC shared this response from me:<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">\u201cWe need to look at whether we should tax the capital gains people have made on their homes\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Political economist <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/RichardJMurphy?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@RichardJMurphy<\/a> proposes a radical suggestion to increase available housing stock <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/bbcdn?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#bbcdn<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/VMihf6vgsN\">https:\/\/t.co\/VMihf6vgsN<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/WA7zlFLPRZ\">pic.twitter.com\/WA7zlFLPRZ<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; BBC Debate Night (@bbcdebatenight) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/bbcdebatenight\/status\/1714766867280134546?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">October 18, 2023<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>I am afraid you will need to go to Twitter or X to play it.<\/p>\n<p>I also took the opportunity to have a go at Bank of England interest rate policy.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One of the questions on Debate Night was on the Edinburgh housing crisis (which is much the same as that in most big cities). The<br \/><a class=\"moretag\" href=\"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/2023\/10\/19\/the-housing-crisis-radical-ways-to-address-the-issue\/\"><em> Read the full article&#8230;<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35,106,140],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-72447","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-economics","category-politics","category-scotland"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72447","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=72447"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72447\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":72449,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72447\/revisions\/72449"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=72447"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=72447"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=72447"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}