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The Financial Times:
Economists' forecasts: Policies will not stop house price rises

3 January 2016

Government initiatives to support home ownership and build new houses will fail to have any real impact in 2016, with UK property prices expected to keep climbing.

John Van Reenen, Director, Centre for Economic Performance:
As noted above they are simply stoking up demand whereas the problem is one of supply.

This article was published by The Financial Times on January 3, 2016
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Related publications
See UK Housing and Planning Policies: the evidence from economic research by Christian Hilber, Centre for Economic Performance 2015 Election Analyses No.33, April 2015

Related links
John Van Reenen webpage
Growth Programme webpage

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