Shreya Nanda @shreyagnanda.bsky.social · 06/04/2026Also, like, I'm not sure how useful "I would simply be home to two of the world's top universities"/"I would simply be within commuting distance of one of the richest cities in the world" are for the question "how do we get productivity up in Leeds/Manchester/etc" 172 0
Shreya Nanda @shreyagnanda.bsky.social · 06/04/2026Isn't the answer "US cities have agglomeration from cars" per @jburnmurdoch.ft.com? www.ft.com/content/9aa0... 170 0
Reposted by Shreya NandaJonathan Liew @jonathanliew.bsky.social · 02/12/2025column on the mansion tax refugees www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...theguardian.comWon’t somebody please think of Britain’s poor £2m homeowners? Oh, wait – everyone already is | Jonathan LiewContrast the furious reaction to Rachel Reeves’s ‘mansion tax’ to the response offered to those living with real housing injustice: indifference, says Guardian columnist Jonathan Liew 1612039 0
Reposted by Shreya NandaLabour Yimby @yimbylabour.bsky.social · 22/07/2025Countless Labour voters have told us they are disheartened by the amendments to the Planning and Infrastructure Bill. Here’s a selection of these voters calling on the Government to not abandon the reforms we so desperately need. 102 0
Shreya Nanda @shreyagnanda.bsky.social · 19/05/2025Think I am talking about a different kind of "sensibilism" 100 0
Shreya Nanda @shreyagnanda.bsky.social · 19/05/2025Also I mean I do think part of it is that the timeline from "moderates gain control of the Labour party from the left" and "moderates get into government" was much shorter than it was last time round, and therefore the think tank ecosystem had less time to adjust 010 0
Shreya Nanda @shreyagnanda.bsky.social · 19/05/2025Think I'm mainly describing a slightly earlier period when there was genuinely a lot of intellectual energy at the ASI; right now the smart people on the right have moved to/set up cross-partisan institutions 000 0
Shreya Nanda @shreyagnanda.bsky.social · 19/05/2025Not sure I get what you mean re "sensibles against economic liberalism"? 200 0
Shreya Nanda @shreyagnanda.bsky.social · 19/05/2025, while those on the centre/centre left increasingly came to self-identify as sensible and negatively polarised themselves against any new ideas 000 0
Shreya Nanda @shreyagnanda.bsky.social · 19/05/2025To put it slightly differently, think dealing with crises requires new thinking and breaking old consensuses, and during this period feel that basically people of the "edgy contrarian" sort basically self-sorted into either the right or the anti-Blair/anti-Starmer left 200 0
Shreya Nanda @shreyagnanda.bsky.social · 19/05/2025Think the answer to the former question is partly about the capture of centrist institutions by sensibilist thought, which then finds itself unable to deal with major crises/significant deviations from the norm. Systems tend to ossification over time 220 0
Shreya Nanda @shreyagnanda.bsky.social · 19/05/2025Not sure the answers are the same tbh. The conservative party may be intellectually vapid at the moment but there is lots of thinking on the right going on that it could engage with if it wanted to 210 0
Shreya Nanda @shreyagnanda.bsky.social · 21/03/2025No because neoliberalism was pro-rentier whereas YIMBYism is about reducing their power to command scarcity rents 041 0
Shreya Nanda @shreyagnanda.bsky.social · 10/03/2025Great to visit No10 today and hear about the government's plans for delivering 1.5m homes a year and speeding up major infrastructure projects ✅🏘️🏗️🚄📈🌹 1170 0
Shreya Nanda @shreyagnanda.bsky.social · 27/02/2025Proud to be supporting our Budget tonight Protecting frontline services ✅ Making Islington a fairer, safer, greener place to live ✅ Keeping our finances on a secure footing ✅ @islingtonlabour.bsky.social 061 0
Shreya Nanda @shreyagnanda.bsky.social · 23/02/2025Or they just don't want it at all and are using this argument as an excuse 000 0
Shreya Nanda @shreyagnanda.bsky.social · 20/02/2025Pleased to contribute to @smfthinktank.bsky.social's collection on this important topic bsky.app/profile/smft... 021 0
Shreya Nanda @shreyagnanda.bsky.social · 20/02/2025You might be a pronatalist without even realising it With our economy increasingly stacked against young people, even basic social democratic policies like redistributing wealth and making housing more affordable act as pronatalist in practice 161 0
Shreya Nanda @shreyagnanda.bsky.social · 05/02/2025Is the red wall the same group of seats as "seats where Labour came first and Reform second"? 000 0
Shreya Nanda @shreyagnanda.bsky.social · 29/01/2025Yes but the argument was that if people moved out of other sectors into construction, wouldn't this leave labour shortages in those other sectors 100 0
Shreya Nanda @shreyagnanda.bsky.social · 29/01/2025In other sectors, not construction, hope this helps 010 0
Shreya Nanda @shreyagnanda.bsky.social · 29/01/2025I don't think "we should have listened to the people arguing against a self-evidently terrible policy" is a good argument for the idea that we should listen to people arguing against all policies 140 0
Shreya Nanda @shreyagnanda.bsky.social · 29/01/2025Automation and productivity increases can be used to reduce the demand for labour 000 0
Shreya Nanda @shreyagnanda.bsky.social · 29/01/2025Yeah but that was a bad policy whereas this is a good policy 190 0
Shreya Nanda @shreyagnanda.bsky.social · 29/01/2025I don't think high skilled immigration is particularly unpopular 010 0
Shreya Nanda @shreyagnanda.bsky.social · 29/01/2025I don't remember us doing loads of good pro growth policy over the past decade 140 0
Shreya Nanda @shreyagnanda.bsky.social · 29/01/2025Think there are fewer barriers to moving from being a checkout worker to a construction worker than to an engineer 220 0
Shreya Nanda @shreyagnanda.bsky.social · 29/01/2025Sounds like the best time to start is still now! Also I don't think allowing a few more engineers to enter the country counts as "mass immigration", nor is it particularly unpopular with the public 130 0
Shreya Nanda @shreyagnanda.bsky.social · 29/01/2025Maybe people could idk move between sectors in response to relative wage changes 6160 0
Shreya Nanda @shreyagnanda.bsky.social · 14/01/2025Great to see the leader of the opposition openly supporting mob violence and arson over the rule of law 021 0
Reposted by Shreya NandaGiles Wilkes @gilesyb.bsky.social · 10/01/2025Britain has never successfully created a white elephant 18526 0
Shreya Nanda @shreyagnanda.bsky.social · 03/12/2024Certainly also agree that we should use policy to increase and speed up build out rates, alongside being ambitious on supply 000 0
Shreya Nanda @shreyagnanda.bsky.social · 03/12/2024But I very much think we also need to take other action alongside this - the number of long term vacant properties is around 260,000, or around 1% of the UK's total housing stock 000 0
Shreya Nanda @shreyagnanda.bsky.social · 03/12/2024Hi Anthony. I definitely agree that councils should have more powers to tackle long-term vacant properties and bring them into use 100 0
Shreya Nanda @shreyagnanda.bsky.social · 03/12/2024You'd have to ask them! Personally I think it's important that we try and address all factors making housing unaffordable - it's such a big and urgent crisis that we can't afford not to 000 0
Shreya Nanda @shreyagnanda.bsky.social · 03/12/2024It's definitely also a distribution problem! Imo we urgently need to tackle both distribution and supply simultaneously 010 0
Shreya Nanda @shreyagnanda.bsky.social · 03/12/2024Addressing multiple aspects of the crisis will get us further than addressing some and excluding others 100 0
Shreya Nanda @shreyagnanda.bsky.social · 03/12/2024My broader point is that the supply argument isn't in conflict with other explanations of the crisis like arguments around credit or tenure. Many different factors have led us to the point where we are now 100 0
Shreya Nanda @shreyagnanda.bsky.social · 03/12/2024Hi Jacob. I actually do mention the supply of credit here. I would have liked to develop all of these points more, but unfortunately was constrained by the word limit 100 0
Shreya Nanda @shreyagnanda.bsky.social · 02/12/2024www.newstatesman.com/spotlight/20... @yimbylabour.bsky.social @newstatesman.comnewstatesman.comIs Yimbyism the answer to the housing crisis?We gathered experts and industry specialists to discuss whether planning reform is the key to boosting housebuilding. 010 0
Shreya Nanda @shreyagnanda.bsky.social · 02/12/2024Me in the New Statesman, making the case for build, build, build 43512 0
Shreya Nanda @shreyagnanda.bsky.social · 19/11/2024Great to be out talking to people on Hargrave Park Road and Fairbridge Road in support of the fab @jamespotts6.bsky.social 🚪🌹✊ 021 0