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Tiny flats won?t solve the housing crisis, but they can help

8 May 2018

This is hardly a fringe view. Economists Christian Hilber and Wouter Vermeulen point out that house prices would be 35 per cent lower if the most restrictive parts of the country (the South-East) were merely as restrictive as the least restrictive parts (the North-East).

Related publications

Hilber, C.A.L. and W. Vermeulen (2016) “The Impact of Supply Constraints on House Prices in England,” Economic Journal, Vol. 126, No. 591, 358-405.

SERC/Urban and Spatial Programme Discussion Paper, The Impact of Supply Constraints on House Prices in England, Christian A. L. Hilber and Wouter Vermeulen, September 2012 ,Paper No' SERCDP0119.

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