CUI members support campaign for investment in UK social housing

CUI members Mariana Mazzucato and Dan Hill among 40 top economists co-signed an open-letter from Shelter to the UK Treasury calling for greater investment in social housing.

As part of the same campaign, Mariana Mazzucato contributed an essay to Shelter’s essay collection, titled Rights-based, mission-oriented housing for the common good, combines excerpts from CUI papers The Right to Housing: a mission-oriented and human rights based approach (co-authored with Leilani Farha) and Modern Housing: an environmental common good (co-authored with Dan Hill).

Shelter’s essay collection, titled Safe as Houses: Why Investment in Social Housing is Great for Us and Our Economy, is available here. This essay stands alongside contributions from Kenneth Gibb, Ann Pettifor, John Muellbauer, Susan Newman, Katie Randall and Hannah Williamson, Adam Yousef, Sir Michael Marmot/Jessica Allen/Jamaica Norferini/Michael Alexander, Glen Bramley, Anne Power, and Shelter’s Policy and Research teams.