Centre for Cities says that the £39 billion fund should be much more targeted towards cities, as that is where the most housing need is concentrated, and it is where there is the greatest potential ...

As this series of work draws to a close (for now), we have updated our data tool to allow you to explore the data behind these headlines yourself. This blog uses the data tool to demonstrate perhaps ...

Devolution to the mayors – especially fiscal devolution – will be the core of the incoming Government’s domestic agenda. This includes the Mayor of London – Andy Burnham in a recent interview stated ...

London is in a bind. While housing starts have fallen slightly across the country, they have crashed in the capital to their lowest levels for at least 20 years. Last week, the Government and the ...

The recent rise in the National Living Wage (NLW) puts the UK’s wage floor among the highest in the OECD. While widely recognised for raising the earnings of the lowest-paid workers in the country ...

The new Prime Minister has promised to deliver the “biggest council housebuilding programme since the post-war period”, with the aim of helping break the UK out of what he has called its “housing trap ...

Centre for Cities is hosting events across this year's Labour, Conservative, Reform and Liberal Democrat Party Conferences including welcome receptions, in conversation sessions and panel discussions.

Andrew Carter, Chief Executive, is joined by Mike Emmerich, Founding Director of Metro Dynamics and former Chief Executive of New Economy Manchester, to discuss his forthcoming book, The Knowledge ...

The current Government are committed to fiscal devolution: they have announced that increased business rate retention and the devolution of a share of income taxes to mayors. The international ...

The UK’s peer nations in the G7 show how minimum wage policy can better adapt to local labour markets. Centre for Cities’ latest briefing, Pay pals: The geography of minimum wage across G7 countries ...