Derelict Land Tax

Housekeeping Scotland: Discussion paper outlining a new agenda for housing

Author / Creator: Malcolm Fraser

Media type: Policy Paper

Date published: October 2016

The United Kingdom’s housing policies have been ideologically-driven, and have led to the current crisis of strangled investment, under-provision and a general flow of power and money from civic society to the wealthy. UK housing has suffered greatly from its politicians’ fixation with a single form of home and tenure, the mortgage-backed and privately-owned home.