immigrants do raise housing prices but they aren't the reason your rent is too damn high
new post from me on immigration's effect on housing prices: www.laurenpolicy.com/p/immigratio...
The rent is too damn high. If there is one thing that young people seem to agree on these days, it is that the rent is too damn high.
www.laurenpolicy.com
Lauren Gilbert
Lauren Gilbert
New short blogpost!
I wrote a round up of cancer research news from ASCO2026:
- Daraxonrasib, the breakthrough pancreatic cancer drug
- Big 7-year results of lorlatinib for ALK+ lung cancers
– Talazoparib, a prostate cancer drug that cut the risk of progression by half
and much more. Read here:
How do we get back to a closer relationship with Europe? Clare Short, Peter Holmes, Orla McBreen and Lauren Gilbert giving us the lowdown.
Immigration to the UK: escaping the doom loop.
@lgilbert.co & I summarise the recent history of the economics and politics of immigration and try to set out a way forward.
For the Progressive Economy Forum.
progressiveeconomyforum.com/publications...
Remember that recent paper claiming to show that "ideological bias" determined the results obtained by immigration policy research teams?
A careful, open-code reanalysis by @kauspurg.bsky.social & Josef Brüderl finds that the result arises from a coding error. —> doi.org/10.31222/osf...
"Inept political and economic strategy has left the UK in a horrendous situation."
@alanbeattie.bsky.social on immigration policy dilemmas in advanced economies.
www.ft.com/content/c57b...
With a link to my recent paper with @lgilbert.co
progressiveeconomyforum.com/publications...
Next, @lgilbert.co and @jdportes.bsky.social on how to escape the UK's immigration doom loop.
progressiveeconomyforum.com/publications...
The UK exhibits unusually high and persistent levels of concern about immigration. Survey evidence consistently shows that around 40–50 per cent of voters rank immigration among the most important iss...
btw I will be speaking at the Progressive Economy Forum on Saturday about a paper @jdportes.bsky.social and I wrote, arguing the value of immigration to the British economy
Rich economies need workers but their voters don’t like migrants
The UK exhibits unusually high and persistent levels of concern about immigration. Survey evidence consistently shows that around 40–50 per cent of voters rank immigration among the most important iss...
