Matt Sharpe

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Matt Sharpe

England's Hidden Housing Subsidy

With all the fuss on (my) Twitter about social housing in London, I thought it’d be worth trying to understand things using public data. It turns out, England’s social housing system delivers a £21 billion annual subsidy that I’ve never seen on a manifesto or in a spending review, and is overwhelmingly concentrated in the wealthiest part of the country. Here, we’re going to quantify that subsidy for every local authority in England.
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