Reposted by Benedikt StraňákBeth Stratford @bethstratford.bsky.social · 29/09/2026Well, I for one am an economist who supports rent controls! Here’s why 🧵: Markets only work well if: -buyers & sellers have roughly equal power -producers respond to price signals & expand supply in response to scarcity -buyers can walk away if prices get too high 11415198
Benedikt Straňák @benediktstranak.bsky.social · 05/08/2026New report + tool, making the case for municipal and community-led development 132
Reposted by Benedikt StraňákStephen Frost @sfrost.bsky.social · 30/05/2025Good read this, particularly if you are interested in knowing how much public transport investment could be needed to deliver tram networks in more cities (including Bristol), better buses, safer streets for active travel and roads with fewer potholes👇 3145
Benedikt Straňák @benediktstranak.bsky.social · 30/05/2025Rachel Reeves is preparing to announce billions in capital spending outside the south-east. This is good news! But the scale of the challenge is massive: re-sharing here our recent localised estimates of the unmet public investment need. @neweconomics.bsky.social @clesthinkdo.bsky.social 1/5neweconomics.orgSolid foundationsLocal investment need for a decade of renewal 172
Reposted by Benedikt StraňákResearch & Degrowth International @r-degrowth.bsky.social · 15/05/2025📘We present to you our first policy brief “Degrowth for cities” writen by R&Di’s dear member Mike Duff. Our series of policy briefs - which will be coming out during this year - challenge conventional growth-centric policies by presenting alternatives. Read it here: degrowth.org/blog/2025/05... 12414
Reposted by Benedikt StraňákFeral Millennial Communists of Late Stage Capitalism @feralcommie.bsky.social · 04/05/2025There is one point on Google Earth at the moment where the map images shift from October 2023 and December 2024 in Gaza. You can clearly see the line between the two, written in destruction 23519
Reposted by Benedikt StraňákScottish Trans @scottishtrans.bsky.social · 16/04/2025We'd urge people not to panic - there will be lots of commentary coming out quickly that is likely to deliberately overstate the impact that this decision is going to have on all trans people's lives. We'll say more as soon as we're able to. Please look out for yourselves and each other today 💗🏳️⚧️ 15949370
Benedikt Straňák @benediktstranak.bsky.social · 16/04/2025So BBC News just gave 15min unchallenged time to TERF campaigners celebrating the idiotic Supreme Court ruling without hearing from a single trans person. 110
Reposted by Benedikt StraňákThe Centre for Local Economies (CLES) @clesthinkdo.bsky.social · 07/04/2025🎟️ Tickets now on sale for CWB Summit 2025! 📅 3 July | 📍Manchester Join changemakers, grassroots leaders and policymakers to explore how local democracy and community wealth building can shape fairer economies. 🎤 Andy Burnham, Grace Blakeley + more 🔗 cles.org.uk/events/cwb-s... 054
Benedikt Straňák @benediktstranak.bsky.social · 06/12/2024@redpeppermag.bsky.social #246 is out and in it my review of 🌶️🌶️🌶️ Who Is Afraid of Degrowth? 🌶️🌶️🌶️ by @celine.bsky.social Can’t wait to read the whole issue! 324
Benedikt Straňák @benediktstranak.bsky.social · 05/12/2024Super excited. I have followed CLES for s while, so this is a (not so) little dream come true. 051
Reposted by Benedikt StraňákNew Economics Foundation @neweconomics.bsky.social · 29/11/2024New housing developments are locking more and more people into car dependency. NEF research by Emmet Kiberd and @benediktstranak.bsky.social shows over the last 15 years, homes have increasingly been built in places where people rely on cars. This is bad for the environment and bad for our health. 55215
Reposted by Benedikt StraňákTom Pollard @pollardtom.bsky.social · 20/11/2024New @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...insidehousing.co.ukScrapping hope value would slash cost of building 90,000 social homes a year by £4.5bn, new report findsA 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. 32520
Benedikt Straňák @benediktstranak.bsky.social · 19/11/2024A short thread on the data used in the NEF report on car dependency by me and Emmet Kiberd, released yesterday. The report looks at the exact locations of all new homes in England, and shows that they are being built in increasingly car dependent areas. 1/4 2113
Reposted by Benedikt StraňákJim Gleeson @geographyjim.bsky.social · 18/11/2024Very cool analysis by @benediktstranak.bsky.social and Emmet Kiberd for NEF of changing patterns of car-dependency in new homes, including this historical view. Full report here neweconomics.org/2024/11/trap... 4269
Benedikt Straňák @benediktstranak.bsky.social · 18/11/2024Glad to see this published! @citygeographics.bsky.social’s working paper inspired our @neweconomics.bsky.social analysis and report on car dependency, also released today 👏🏼 052
Benedikt Straňák @benediktstranak.bsky.social · 18/11/2024Highlights from the @neweconomics.bsky.social report on car dependency. The report shows that new homes in England are increasingly located in car dependent areas with poor transport infrastructure. The triangle in the figure indicates car dependency of median home from each period. 1/6 1139
Benedikt Straňák @benediktstranak.bsky.social · 18/11/2024A new @neweconomics.bsky.social report by me and Emmet Kiberd is out today, showing that in the midst of climate and nature emergencies when we urgently need to prioritise public transport and active travel, new builds lock England into car dependency. 1/3 neweconomics.org/2024/11/trap...neweconomics.orgTrapped behind the wheelHow England's new builds lock us into car dependency 85933