Hollie Wright

I wrote about tax wars, the scaremongering of fleeing millionaires, and non-doms. If you think the debate is toxic now, just wait until we need *real* tax reform...

Black image with a quarter cut out green. Text reads, “3/4 of British public back a tax rise on very richest instead of cuts to public spending”.

The UK government has chosen to cut support for millions of people already facing hardship. A 2% tax on wealth over £10 million could raise £24 billion every year – money that could transform lives.
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Jobcentres should be Live Well centres — this is what that means Our outdated state is collapsing, but unified local services can get the UK buzzing again

This is good from Andy Burnham - calling not for benefits cuts that will drive more people into poverty, but instead for integrated place-based services that recognise the complexities of people's lives and provide whole-person support.

www.thetimes.com/uk/politics/...

There are elements of what was announced today - investment in employment support, the 'right to try' - that, along with last year's White Paper could have been a transformational agenda

But crude, short-term cuts driven by HMT/No.10 will fundamentally undermine this... 🧵

It's difficult to engage in good faith in a discussion about 'compromise' proposals that dignify the phoney premise that we simply can't afford to scrap the two-child limit & benefit cap. £3.5bn would be incredible value for the poverty alleviation (& knock-on economic benefits) it would achieve

Where do we draw the line? Exploring an extreme wealth line Public event at LSE | Ingrid Robeyns, Olivier De Schutter, Fernanda Balata, Gary Stevenson, Tania Burchardt | Thurs 6 March, 6.30 to 8.00pm

Please join us on Thursday 6 March for a @lseinequalities.bsky.social discussion about where & how to draw the line on extreme wealth. Fabulous line up @ingridrobeyns.bsky.social @garyseconomics.bsky.social @deschuttero.bsky.social, Fernanda Balata & Tania Burchardt

www.lse.ac.uk/Internationa...

Exploring an extreme wealth line Insights from political figures, policy experts, and millionaires on a threshold for harmful wealth

I'm thrilled to launch our @neweconomics.bsky.social and @patmillsuk.bsky.social report Exploring an Extreme Wealth Line. Our talks with millionaires, politicians, and policymakers in the past months revealed broad agreement that #extremewealth is a systemic failure neweconomics.org/2025/01/expl...

Councils would generally prefer onsite social housing, as a proportion of all the new homes built (31% in this case). This creates mixed tenure communities and ensures the housing definitely gets built.

We hear a lot about the costs of Temporary Accommodation crippling councils financially - but less about why this is.
- Central Government is benefiting financially from households being in homeless accommodation rather than the PRS, because they pay just *90% of the LHA rate from 20211*

On the other side of the coin, we have Social housing lettings in England, April 2023 to March 2024
www.gov.uk/government/s...

Reforming right to buy Options for preserving and delivering new council homes for the twenty-first century

Great to see @neweconomics.bsky.social's 'Reforming Right to Buy' in @thinkhouseinfo.bsky.social's 'must read' housing reports for 2024: www.thinkhouse.org.uk/reports/2024/

Congratulations to Alex Diner & @hollies.bsky.social who led the work. Full report here: neweconomics.org/2024/05/refo...

Chuffed that our Reforming Right to Buy paper has been selected as a 'Must Read' by @thinkhouseinfo.bsky.social alongside some truly excellent housing reports from this year - including Shelter's wonderful Brick by Brick! Check out our work here: neweconomics.org/2024/05/refo...

DWP official tells PAC hearing that it estimates that 45% of households in receipt of LHA had shortfall against their rent as of August 2024 [with rents currently rising at 8.7% a year and LHA rates frozen again from April 2025]

Our NEF research on Right to Buy and private landlords referenced in the below! Good stuff neweconomics.org/2024/05/more...

Graphs of results of TSMs for tenants and shared owners by metric

*Brand New* Tenant Satisfaction Measures published today, the revival of a tool for consumer regulation post-Grenfell.

Results are very poor for Social Landlord performance on Shared Ownership in particular, a third are dissatisfied with overall service and, results look bad across many metrics.

New private rent stats out today for Oct 24 show an annual increase of 8.7% in GB and 10.5% in London, equating to £105 more per month on average in GB and £204 in London, compared to Oct 23.

These are big rises, and come on the back of the decision taken to keep LHA frozen at the Budget. 🧵 1/x

Scrapping hope value would slash cost of building 90,000 social homes a year by £4.5bn, new report finds A new report has found that scrapping hope value for landowners would slash the cost of building 90,000 social homes a year by £4.5bn.

New @neweconomics.bsky.social research out today shows that removing 'hope value' from the price councils have to pay for land could reduce the cost of building the 90,000 new social homes we need each year by a quarter, saving £4.5bn www.insidehousing.co.uk/home/scrappi...