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Josh Ryan-Collins

@jryancollins.bsky.social
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Professor in Economics & Finance @iipp-ucl.bsky.social | macroeconomic policy, sustainable finance, land & housing | profiles.ucl.ac.uk/64753

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Josh Ryan-Collins @jryancollins.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
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Compass @compassoffice.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
HOUSING: @bethstratford.bsky.social and @jryancollins.bsky.social of @iipp-ucl.bsky.social talk rent controls, a public housing development corporation scaling the supply of social housing, and raising Capital Gains Tax on investment properties to support tenure shift.
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Josh Ryan-Collins @jryancollins.bsky.social · 06/07/2026
Our new @iipp-ucl.bsky.social working paper on environmental breakdown and inflation is out. Collaboration with Katie Kedward, Damon Aitken & David Barmes. www.ucl.ac.uk/bartlett/pub...
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Environmental Breakdown and Inflation Management
Authored by Josh Ryan-Collins, Damon Aitken, Katie Kedward, and David Barmes
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Josh Ryan-Collins @jryancollins.bsky.social · 06/07/2026
Investment in the green transition is the best way to defend ourselves from long-term inflationary shocks - and this will ultimately keep the bond markets happy. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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Ed Miliband as chancellor would benefit every part of the UK – and the bond markets | Josh Ryan-Collins
If Andy Burnham promotes the energy secretary, Labour could fully use the benefits of net zero to promote growth and jobs, says Josh Ryan-Collins, professor of economics and finance at UCL
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Jo Michell @jomichell.bsky.social · 28/06/2026
Good stuff from @jryancollins.bsky.social on the incoherence of the City-Unite anti-Miliband alliance. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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Ed Miliband as chancellor would benefit every part of the UK – and the bond markets | Josh Ryan-Collins
If Andy Burnham promotes the energy secretary, Labour could fully use the benefits of net zero to promote growth and jobs, says Josh Ryan-Collins, professor of economics and finance at UCL
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UCL Institute for Innovation and Public Purpose @iipp-ucl.bsky.social · 18/04/2026
⌛️ Last chance to register for The London Housing Summit 2026! IIPP Professor @jryancollins.bsky.social will be speaking on 'Demand and Distribution for the Homes London Has' at the London Housing Summit 2026, organised by @centreforlondon.bsky.social. 🔗 Register here: buff.ly/7M9dlhk
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UCL Institute for Innovation and Public Purpose @iipp-ucl.bsky.social · 11/04/2026
❗️Change:NOW! Mobilising the Progressive Majority IIPP Professors @cacrisalves.bsky.social, @ceciliarikap.bsky.social, and @jryancollins.bsky.social will be speaking at the upcoming Change:NOW! conference on May 30 2026. 🔗 Learn more and register here: buff.ly/TwW22xy @pef-online.bsky.social
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Josh Ryan-Collins @jryancollins.bsky.social · 15/04/2026
Join me next tuesday for this excellent panel on how to make better use of the existing stock in London.
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UCL Institute for Innovation and Public Purpose @iipp-ucl.bsky.social · 08/04/2026
🚀 Rethinking the State returns this June. Join us at the fourth annual UCL IIPP FORUM 2026, 16–17 June in London. 🔗 Learn more and register here buff.ly/fZlA7M2
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Josh Ryan-Collins @jryancollins.bsky.social · 07/04/2026
Join me and a fantastic line up of speakers at the @compassoffice.bsky.social / PEF annual conference on 30th May - tickets below. www.compassonline.org.uk/events/chang...
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Change:NOW! Mobilising the Progressive Majority - Compass
Get your Tickets Last year, Compass brought together 450+ progressive pioneers at ‘Change:HOW? A Decade of Radical Renewal’ to re-orient […]
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Positive Money UK @positivemoneyuk.bsky.social · 24/03/2026
If you haven’t seen it already, @jryancollins.bsky.social's article in the Guardian last week is well-worth a read, as it explores why interest rates simply aren’t the right tool for tackling this new inflationary crisis 👇 www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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Interest rates are not the tool to solve the inflation caused by the US’s war with Iran | Josh Ryan-Collins
We’ve been here before with Covid and Ukraine. Making borrowing more expensive won’t work – only price controls, caps and public ownership can do that, says Josh Ryan-Collins, a professor at UCL
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Centre for London @centreforlondon.bsky.social · 24/03/2026
📣 Thrilled that @jryancollins.bsky.social will join our second panel at the London Housing Summit 2026. As a professor at @iipp-ucl.bsky.social & author of 'why can't you afford a home?', he’ll unpack how the housing market drives unequal access to homes. Sign up: forms.office.com/pages/respon...
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Josh Ryan-Collins @jryancollins.bsky.social · 18/03/2026
Pressure will be on the @bankofengland.bsky.social tomorrow to stop cutting rates in the face of price rises. But it should learn the right lessons from the Covid/Ukraine inflation - tightening monetary policy is the wrong appraoch to supply-side shocks like this. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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Interest rates are not the tool to solve the inflation caused by the US’s war with Iran | Josh Ryan-Collins
We’ve been here before with Covid and Ukraine. Making borrowing more expensive won’t work – only price controls, caps and public ownership can do that, says Josh Ryan-Collins, a professor at UCL
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 08/03/2026
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Josh Ryan-Collins @jryancollins.bsky.social · 08/03/2026
The @europarl.europa.eu looks set on tuesday to vote through a report on the EU housing crisis that rejects the idea that financialisation has been a key driver. Read my co-authored letter with @danielagabor.bsky.social arguing aginst the report's findings www.ucl.ac.uk/bartlett/pub...
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Letter to the European Parliament's HOUS Committee
Authored by Josh Ryan-Collins and Daniela Gabor
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UCL Institute for Innovation and Public Purpose @iipp-ucl.bsky.social · 06/03/2026
⏮️ Catch up on our recent #IIPPInConversation event featuring Honorary Senior Research Fellow @drdonalbrown.bsky.social in conversation with IIPP Prof. @jryancollins.bsky.social and @sofiejenkinson.bsky.social on a new low-carbon social contract. 📺 Watch the event recording here: buff.ly/fsIX94J
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Stanislas Jourdan @stanjourdan.bsky.social · 04/03/2026
The report misses @jryancollins.bsky.social's key insight: bank credit is highly elastic (limitless), while land is inherently inelastic (scarce). When unlimited bank money meets a fixed supply of land, prices inevitably explode. journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
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UCL Institute for Innovation and Public Purpose @iipp-ucl.bsky.social · 24/02/2026
🎤 What would a new 'low carbon social contract' look like? Prof. @jryancollins.bsky.social, @drdonalbrown.bsky.social, and @sofiejenkinson.bsky.social discuss what a new approach and more radical strategy might look like, highlighting the need to depart from the prevailing economic consenses.
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Shelter @sheltercharity.bsky.social · 18/02/2026
🚨New report out today.🚨 If we want fewer families facing homelessness, we need to be honest about what works... and what doesn’t. Our new report looks at the evidence behind housing policy and why social housing is key to ending the housing emergency. 🗝️ Read the full report: shltr.org.uk/ifWuB
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Build Up Not Trickle Down Need-Led Housing - Shelter England
The government must adopt a need-led development model that delivers genuinely affordable social homes so everyone has a safe, affordable and secure place home.
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UCL Institute for Innovation and Public Purpose @iipp-ucl.bsky.social · 30/01/2026
🏠 Could the UK’s low house price growth be a good thing? IIPP Professor @jryancollins.bsky.social argues that because wages are rising, the actual cost of housing is falling. Over time, this means housing becomes more affordable. 🔗 Read his interview in the @financialtimes.com: buff.ly/iRVen38
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Josh Ryan-Collins @jryancollins.bsky.social · 29/01/2026
My interview with the housing journalist @peteapps.bsky.social on demand-side drivers of the housing crisis peteapps.substack.com/p/why-you-ca...
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Why you can't afford a home: in conversation with Josh Ryan-Collins
This week, we chat to the professor of economics and finance at University College London about how bank lending and wealth driven investment have broken the link between house prices and incomes
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UCL Institute for Innovation and Public Purpose @iipp-ucl.bsky.social · 17/12/2025
🏠 How and why has housing become unaffordable for so many? IIPP Professor @jryancollins.bsky.social spoke with @vickyspratt.bsky.social on BBC Radio 4's 'Housing Britain' Series, elaborating on the drivers of the UK housing crisis. 🎧 Listen to the episode here: buff.ly/ECcGroO
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Josh Ryan-Collins @jryancollins.bsky.social · 16/12/2025
Hear my diagnosis of the drivers of the UK housing crisis on this excellent new BBC Radio 4 program led by @vickyspratt.bsky.social www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...
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Housing Britain - The Housing Ladder - BBC Sounds
Vicky Spratt explores how the UK's housing crisis unfolded and asks if we can fix it.
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Josh Ryan-Collins @jryancollins.bsky.social · 02/12/2025
I'll be making the case for wealth taxes tonight for Kings College Politics society debate, along with Vince Cable up against Andrew Lillico and Kristian Niemietz. Bush house auditorium, Strand. Tickets here: tickettailor.com/events/kclpo...
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Josh Ryan-Collins @jryancollins.bsky.social · 12/11/2025
Inflation-targeting (IT) central banks fared no better in controlling the 2021-2023 inflation than non-IT central banks, according new paper from IMF. www.imf.org/en/publicati... We need a new macropolicy framework. WIll be working on this over the next two years with my team @iipp-ucl.bsky.social
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Josh Ryan-Collins @jryancollins.bsky.social · 01/11/2025
Neoliberalism --> populism [from Funke et al (2023) Populist Leaders and the Economy www.aeaweb.org/articles?id=... p361]
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UCL Institute for Innovation and Public Purpose @iipp-ucl.bsky.social · 24/10/2025
🔄 Breaking the Housing-Finance Cycle. IIPP Professor of Economics and Finance @jryancollins.bsky.social spoke with Tim Williams on the Grimshaw Cities Podcast about the economics of housing and the drivers of housing crises. 🎧 Listen to the episode here: buff.ly/EOdVKMT
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Urban Political Podcast @urbanpolitical.bsky.social · 20/10/2025
Our second episode from our series ‘Where is Urban Politics?’ is out now: urbanpolitical.online/98-repolitic... Josh Ryan-Collins (@jryancollins.bsky.social) and Dirk Bezemer are talking about Europe’s housing crisis, financialisation, and the urgent need to rethink the politics of home.
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Urban Political Podcast @urbanpolitical.bsky.social · 20/10/2025
In this episode, you will hear: Josh Ryan-Collins (@jryancollins.bsky.social) and Dirk Bezemer, introduced by Marian Counihan and Christian Lamker (@raumplaner.bsky.social) .
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Josh Ryan-Collins @jryancollins.bsky.social · 17/10/2025
The EU parliament is undertaking a major investigation in to the causes of the housing crisis. @danielagabor.bsky.social & myself gave evidence to the parliament on financialisation in July. This was neglected in the draft motion so we've written an open letter. www.ucl.ac.uk/bartlett/pub...
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Letter to the European Parliament's HOUS Committee
Authored by Josh Ryan-Collins and Daniela Gabor
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Josh Ryan-Collins @jryancollins.bsky.social · 15/10/2025
Opportunity knocks for Labour at the upcoming budget to commence a fundamental reform of our broken property taxation system. Some thoughts from me in @theguardian.com www.theguardian.com/society/comm...
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Abolishing stamp duty won’t solve Britain’s housing crisis – but this radical property tax just might | Josh Ryan-Collins
Economists on all sides agree: rather than incremental changes, this deeply unfair market needs a ‘big bang’ moment, says associate professor of economics and finance Josh Ryan-Collins
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Josh Ryan-Collins @jryancollins.bsky.social · 08/10/2025
If you reduce taxation on property, the 'saving' will be capitalised in to house prices, enriching existing owners whilst not increasing homeownership. Property tax needs reform not lowering. Abolish stamp duty & replace with annual proportional property tax. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
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Tories will scrap stamp duty on primary residences, Kemi Badenoch tells conference
Leader announces tax cut plan for England and Northern Ireland in speech aimed at boosting fiscal credibility
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Josh Ryan-Collins @jryancollins.bsky.social · 29/09/2025
Its 10 years to the day since Mark Carney's famous 'Breaking the Tragedy of the Horizon' speech set out how central banks could persuade markets to price in the green transition. Unfortunately it didn't happen. medium.com/iipp-blog/th...
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The tragedy of the ‘measure to manage’ green financial policy paradigm
Josh Ryan-Collins, Professor in Economics and Finance, UCL Institute for Innovation and Public Purpose
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Josh Ryan-Collins @jryancollins.bsky.social · 17/09/2025
"Paris is also doing more “pre-emption deals” in which it blocks a planned real estate transaction to instead buy the building itself to convert into social housing. Under its new land use plan, the city has labelled some 800 buildings, one-third offices, as candidates." on.ft.com/4nvu0BT
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The left’s radical plan to fix housing in Paris
Authorities are using an arsenal of interventionist tools to make city homes affordable. Critics call it an attack on property rights
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Josh Ryan-Collins @jryancollins.bsky.social · 12/09/2025
Mark Carney's 'Tragedy of the Horizon' speech is approaching its 10th anniversary. Some reflections here on why the 'measure risk to manage risk' paradigm it set out has largely failed and alternative path forwards. medium.com/iipp-blog/th...
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The tragedy of the ‘measure to manage’ green financial policy paradigm
Josh Ryan-Collins, Professor in Economics and Finance, UCL Institute for Innovation and Public Purpose
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Josh Ryan-Collins @jryancollins.bsky.social · 05/09/2025
As the government panics about bond market gyrations, its always useful to understand how the UK government actually finances itself: by creating new money, just like a bank. New paper with @AskerVoldsgaard, Neil Wilson, Andrew Berkeley and Richard Tye. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
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The Self-Financing State: An Institutional Analysis of Government Expenditure, Revenue Collection and Debt Issuance Operations in the United Kingdom
This article provides the first detailed institutional analysis of the UK government’s expenditure, revenue collection, and debt issuance processes. We show that public expenditure is always financ...
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Josh Ryan-Collins @jryancollins.bsky.social · 04/09/2025
"The numbers suggest rather that the housing crisis is less about shortage than the unequal distribution of homes around the population." Excellent long read in the FT from John Plender on the true causes of the UK housing crisis: policy drivennn financialisation and inequality. on.ft.com/4p7SiUk
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Making British homes affordable again
Politicians have long blamed a housing shortage for soaring prices, but it is tax reform that can make the market less dysfunctional
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Josh Ryan-Collins @jryancollins.bsky.social · 21/08/2025
Watch my podcast with Sydney's Tim Grimshaw, focussing on the financialisation of housing open.spotify.com/episode/76Wa...
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BREAKING THE HOUSING-FINANCE CYCLE
THE GRIMSHAW PODCAST · Episode
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Josh Ryan-Collins @jryancollins.bsky.social · 23/07/2025
Very pleased to see Bailey pushing back on Reeves' flawed plans to liberalise UK banks. UK banks primarily lend against existing assets, rather than serving the real economy. Only around 15% of all lending goes to non-financial firms, 75% to mortgages and other parts of the financial sector.
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UCL Institute for Innovation and Public Purpose @iipp-ucl.bsky.social · 17/07/2025
⚠️ Financial Stability at Risk Recent research by IIPP Professor @jryancollins.bsky.social & Research Fellow Lydia Marsden shows the role of finance in ecosystem degradation, urging for systemic reform to protect nature and the economy. ✍️ Read our news story here: buff.ly/wJM34Wb
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UCL Institute for Innovation and Public Purpose @iipp-ucl.bsky.social · 09/07/2025
🌳 Financial System Interactions With Ecosystem Tipping Points The latest working paper by IIPP's @jryancollins.bsky.social and Lydia Marsden maps financial flows to companies linked to land-use change and degradation in two at-risk ecosystems. ✍️ Read their paper here: buff.ly/TwbaSOw
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UCL Institute for Innovation and Public Purpose @iipp-ucl.bsky.social · 05/07/2025
🎤 IIPP Professor @jryancollins.bsky.social recently gave evidence to @europarl.europa.eu's Special Committee on the Housing Crisis in the European Union, emphasizing the need to adjust outdated policy tools to combat increasing financialisation. 📺 Watch the recording: buff.ly/MQJTPOB
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Josh Ryan-Collins @jryancollins.bsky.social · 04/07/2025
Gave evidence to the @euparliament.bsky.social yesterday on policy solutions to deal with the financialisation of housing. Also speaking were the Deputy director of the ESRB & @danielagabor.bsky.social I'm on from from 11h42m multimedia.europarl.europa.eu/en/webstream... @iipp-ucl.bsky.social
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Special committee on the Housing Crisis in the European Union Ordinary meeting - Multimedia Centre
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Josh Ryan-Collins @jryancollins.bsky.social · 01/07/2025
New discussion note published today on how central banks should regulate to reduce financial flows constribution to ecosystem tipping points. Collaboration with WWF Green FInancial Regulation Initiative. Plus... wwf.panda.org?14288941/Fin...
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Financial Stability at Risk: An Urgent Call to Central Banks and Regulators to Address Ecosyste
New policy brief calls for stronger financial interventions to help prevent systemic risks to global economies, highlighting how financial flows contribute to nature loss in five crucial ecosystems.
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Josh Ryan-Collins @jryancollins.bsky.social · 01/07/2025
New paper sets out a framework for rethinking our approach to the housing crisis as if we had limited resources (labour, materials and C02 emissions). Part of our 'Homes that don't cost the earth' collaboration with @iipp-ucl.bsky.social, Arup engineers & @darkmatterlabs.org tinyurl.com/2c6rcrgb
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Homes that Don’t Cost the Earth: Taking Stock | Notion
Taking Stock outlines the foundational analysis that will guide the next stages of our work, including the framework and metrics we propose to use to evaluate housing policy and practice, and the key ...
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Josh Ryan-Collins @jryancollins.bsky.social · 27/06/2025
Looking forward to speaking on this panel next wednesday in Brussels on the housing affordability crisis. Hosted by the S&D Group and & MEP Andreas Schieder. Sign up to join in person or online below. Join us in Brussels or online: socsde.ms/ZS7
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Fe Balata @febalata.bsky.social · 17/06/2025
Join @neweconomics.bsky.social and @policyalternatives.ca @ricardotranjan.bsky.social for a Canada-UK housing justice dialogue, with contributions from the amazing @jryancollins.bsky.social 👇
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UCL Institute for Innovation and Public Purpose @iipp-ucl.bsky.social · 12/06/2025
🌳 What is the future of nature-aligned finance? IIPP Professor @jryancollins.bsky.social‬ will be speaking at the upcoming 'Towards Nature-Aligned Finance' event hosted by the Erasmus Platform for Sustainable Value Creation on June 19th. 🔗Learn more and register here: buff.ly/bU9mhhB
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Josh Ryan-Collins @jryancollins.bsky.social · 10/06/2025
I'll be charing the closing panel of this workshop hosted by the Erasmus Plaform for sustainable value creation in Rotterdam next thursday. Tickets still available. www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/towards-na...
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Towards Nature-Aligned Finance?
Join us to meet and discuss the future of nature-aligned finance with policymakers, industry leaders and world-class researchers.
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Josh Ryan-Collins @jryancollins.bsky.social · 22/05/2025
Excellent piece from @resi-analyst.bsky.social. Housing transactions are collapsing and we desperately need property tax reform. Shifting from stamp duty & council tax to an annual property tax could increase transactions & the tax take, increase labour productivity and growth. on.ft.com/4jiWbSn
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