Lunchtime news Friday 23 November 2023

This issue’s cover stories:

Swede smell of success

A Stockholm suburb is the model for Gordon Brown’s bew eco-towns. But willl he dare follow Sweden’s anti-speculation housing policy, asks Stephen Hill.

Buy Freedom

Themajority of us now have a stake in the nation’s wealth through property ownership – and politicians mess with this new reality at their peril says Kevin Cahill.

Wedged in

Feeling the squeeze of land price inflation? ROOF looks at three ingenious ways out.

Asset stripping

Common ownership of the land is nothing new in Scotland. But what has happened to the £2 billion-worth of community assets? Andy Wightman investigates.

Inequitable life

Government attempts to use taxation as a weapon in the fight against inequality have hadthe opposite effect, argues Fred Harrison.

Evicted

A film about families being thrown out of their homes won a BAFTA this year. But what happened next?

Acceptable in the 70s

Peter Malpass places the blame for the Conservatives 1980s housing policy on the timidity of the previous decade’s Labour government.

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