Ep 82: Lessons From the UK Housing Shortage with Anthony Breach

What happens to housing quality and affordability when any proposed development can be vetoed? Can the public sector reliably deliver most of the housing that people need? If it can, should it? Ant Breach shares insights from the Centre for Cities’ report on the United Kingdom’s homebuilding crisis.Show notes:Watling, S., & Breach, A. (2023). The housebuilding crisis: The UK’s 4 million missing homes. Center for Cities.Watling, S. (2023). Why Britain doesn’t build. Works In Progress.Episode 59 of UCLA Housing Voice with Paavo and Mike M., on the costs of discretionary housing approvals.