To fix housing and unlock growth, Britain must embrace urban density, especially mid-rise across big-city cores.

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Urban Britain is missing mid-rise (4–9 storey) housing.

France and Japan achieve high density through mixed neighbourhoods with more mid-rise flats— we don’t.

City centres can’t close the gap alone.

Most missing homes are in low-density neighbourhoods across wider urban cores.

The gap is getting bigger.

Slow building in urban cores over the past decade created one-sixth of today’s deficit.

The density gap is widest in big cities outside London.

Manchester alone has 236k fewer homes than Lyon; Birmingham 228k fewer than Fukuoka.

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📊Our new data tool maps and quantifies the additional population that would be ‘well-connected’ to each city centre from different combinations of steps toward integration, for 30 or 45 minute journey times 👇
buff.ly/CRggzgl

📊Our new data tool maps and quantifies the additional population that would be ‘well-connected’ to each city centre from different combinations of steps toward integration, for 30 or 45 minute journey times 👇
buff.ly/CRggzgl