James Robert Evans
jrevans.bsky.social
James Robert Evans
@jrevans.bsky.social
Industrial Policy Analyst at the Department for Business and Trade; formerly Analyst at the Centre for Cities, and just finished a DPhil on deindustrialisation processes. Interested in economic history, policy, innovation, and economic geography.
We don’t build very many public houses anymore. Want to find out what was going on when we did?

Lessons from the last 80 years of public housebuilding – the highs and the lows – are out in my new report with @xuanrulin.bsky.social for @centreforcities.bsky.social
December 3, 2024 at 1:45 PM
A summary of the private housebuilding paper by @antbreach.bsky.social is here: bsky.app/profile/antb...
Our new reports on housebuilding show the Government must go further for its economic agenda to succeed. We risk missing the 1.5 million target by 388,000 with small planning reforms - to get a big increase we must either introduce a zoning system or abolish the green belt. bsky.app/profile/cent...
📄Restarting housebuilding I: Planning reform and the private sector

Investigating the history of private housebuilding since 1946 to test the Government’s proposed planning reforms.

Read the first report in our series from @antbreach.bsky.social 👓👇
www.centreforcities.org/publication/...
December 3, 2024 at 1:45 PM
...all of which had an impact on employment opportunities for working-class people. I will decide how to disseminate the research once everything is finalised in a month or so, but please do drop me a line if you have questions! #EconHist
September 6, 2024 at 10:43 AM
My thesis is a quantitative — if not inaccessibly econometric — account of how deindustrialisation processes played out after 1921. Rather than a sudden shock, deindustrialisation played out gradually as a result of the changing fortunes of different industries and places...
September 6, 2024 at 10:43 AM