Jeremy 🌐
@jezzlyp.bsky.social
23 · northerner in London · YIMBY · compsci, politics, economics, linguistics, AI, climate, trains, puns and food 🍜🚉🏗️🔰🇬🇧🇫🇷🌐
Reposted by Jeremy 🌐
At the heart of the UK's geographic divides are 'exporting' industries like software or manufacturing. Their performance drives local wages + the national economy. The industrial strategy needs to focus on helping exporting industries grow locally so they can succeed internationally.
January 20, 2025 at 10:58 AM
At the heart of the UK's geographic divides are 'exporting' industries like software or manufacturing. Their performance drives local wages + the national economy. The industrial strategy needs to focus on helping exporting industries grow locally so they can succeed internationally.
Reposted by Jeremy 🌐
We mutter a lot about housing in the UK. BUT IT'S 44% MORE EXPENSIVE THAN THE OECD AVERAGE.
www.resolutionfoundation.org/publications...
www.resolutionfoundation.org/publications...
January 13, 2025 at 9:28 AM
We mutter a lot about housing in the UK. BUT IT'S 44% MORE EXPENSIVE THAN THE OECD AVERAGE.
www.resolutionfoundation.org/publications...
www.resolutionfoundation.org/publications...
Reposted by Jeremy 🌐
NEW REPORTS | Restarting housebuilding🏘️
These new reports focus on private and public housebuilding, using local-level data from the last 80 years to analyse the reforms needed to meet the government's 1.5m housebuilding target.
Read the full reports👇
www.centreforcities.org/housing/
These new reports focus on private and public housebuilding, using local-level data from the last 80 years to analyse the reforms needed to meet the government's 1.5m housebuilding target.
Read the full reports👇
www.centreforcities.org/housing/
The housing crisis - Centre for Cities
The UK doesn’t have a national housing crisis, but there is a housing crisis in our most unaffordable cities. How can homes be built where they are needed?
www.centreforcities.org
December 3, 2024 at 9:31 AM
NEW REPORTS | Restarting housebuilding🏘️
These new reports focus on private and public housebuilding, using local-level data from the last 80 years to analyse the reforms needed to meet the government's 1.5m housebuilding target.
Read the full reports👇
www.centreforcities.org/housing/
These new reports focus on private and public housebuilding, using local-level data from the last 80 years to analyse the reforms needed to meet the government's 1.5m housebuilding target.
Read the full reports👇
www.centreforcities.org/housing/
Reposted by Jeremy 🌐
Before & After: I don’t think people realize the extent to which parked cars degrade public space.
November 25, 2024 at 5:25 AM
Before & After: I don’t think people realize the extent to which parked cars degrade public space.
Reposted by Jeremy 🌐
According to The Times the government will publish a White Paper on English devolution in the coming weeks which will set out plans for the “biggest overhaul of local government in more than 50 years”.
1/3 #LocalGov 🧵
1/3 #LocalGov 🧵
November 25, 2024 at 12:03 AM
According to The Times the government will publish a White Paper on English devolution in the coming weeks which will set out plans for the “biggest overhaul of local government in more than 50 years”.
1/3 #LocalGov 🧵
1/3 #LocalGov 🧵
Reposted by Jeremy 🌐
"Now Harold Wilson’s Labour government had a taste for reorganisation. In June 1966, it appointed John Redcliffe-Maud – civil servant, academic, baron – to rethink things from the bottom up, and to come up with a system that didn't rely on country boundaries first set in the age of King Alfred."
Redcliffe-Maud: The greatest local government reorganisation we never had
Oh don’t tell me you aren’t interested.
jonn.substack.com
November 24, 2024 at 3:07 PM
"Now Harold Wilson’s Labour government had a taste for reorganisation. In June 1966, it appointed John Redcliffe-Maud – civil servant, academic, baron – to rethink things from the bottom up, and to come up with a system that didn't rely on country boundaries first set in the age of King Alfred."