The consensus that Britain's housing crisis stems from the lack of enough houses being built has received intense criticism lately. Christian Hilber and Andreas Mense analyse the price-to-rent ratio of UK homes and argue that the critiques of the "supply shortage" theory of housing are wrong.

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15 December 2025

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LSE British Politics and Policy

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https://blogs.lse.ac.uk/politicsandpolicy/what-the-price-to-rent-ratio-reveals-about-britains-housing-crisis/

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