LSE Policy Fellow on the Leading for London programme [email protected]
Joined March 2021
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“Why are councils fucking taking more money off me and doing less?”
People don't realise how much councils spend on social care – they just see services declining
So they land on an understandable, if unfair, conclusion: councils are wasting their money
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Worsening affordability & widening inequality are often cited as reasons for rent control
But international examples tell us that, far from fixing things, rent control can make these problems worse
My piece for @redbrickblog on what the experience of other cities can teach us
What can England learn from international experience of rent controls?
From Berlin to San Francisco, @JenMTreadwell at @lse_london examines who benefits, what happens to housing supply, and the difficult trade-offs involved in regulating rents.
redbrickblog.co.uk/2026/08/t…
Business Rate cuts are intended to help companies survive, but all they end up doing is subsidising landlords
Business Rates look like a tax on doing business, so people assume that cuts work by making it cheaper to do business
But Business Rates are a property tax, so cutting them is just a subsidy for those who own the property
Crime anxiety in London goes beyond the fear of being a victim yourself. It's a broader feeling that the city is becoming unsafe and in decline
Here's what LSE's polling says about Londoners' experiences of crime
How safe do Londoners feel in the capital?
Our Policy Fellow, @JenMTreadwell, speaks to the Evening Standard about new polling commissioned by LSE on perceptions of safety in London.
Read more:
standard.co.uk/news/london/v…
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Londoners are undeniably concerned about crime
The feeling that safety is declining is shared widely, with more people believing Ldn is becoming less safe than safer across income groups, ethnicity, gender, & age
London polling ahead of local elections was broadly good, but the interpretation often assumed that vote share translates neatly into council control
It doesn't. And that's a lesson insurgent parties & commentators need to learn
blogs.lse.ac.uk/politicsandp…
Me in @LSEpoliticsblog
Reform's ~30% was fairly stable across the borough. It's enough to be competitive almost everywhere, but rarely enough to finish first
MRPs can't pick up the internal quirks which are central to local elections, so they average the support to estimate borough-wide vote shares
There’s a view floating around that immigration is a fundamental obstacle to YIMBY & pro-growth politics
The idea is that migration drives housing scarcity, which destroys consent for housebuilding as ppl fear only migrants will benefit
I've had a look at how this holds up👇
"So long as pro-growth advocates refuse to confront mass immigration, they will never build a durable coalition"
More on this today from @CJAWorrall on why YIMBYism failed.
We can see this clearly when we plot Reform's vote share against local house prices. Reform does best where housing is cheapest, not where immigration pressure on housing is highest
House prices are actually a better predictor of Reform vote than average income
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