DCLG Seminar: Geoff Meen - Affordability and Home-Ownership: Reflections on Policy Options and Constraints

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DCLG Seminar: Geoff Meen - Affordability and Home-Ownership: Reflections on Policy Options and Constraints

By DLUHC Analysis and Data Directorate

Date and time

Tue, 17 Jan 2017 12:30 - 13:30 GMT

Location

2 Marsham Street

Room 5A and 5B London SW1P 4DF United Kingdom

Description

In this Economic and Social Research seminar, join Geoff Meen, Professor of Applied Economics at the University of Reading, to discuss affordability and affordable housing, and to hear his reflections on future research and policy.

Geoff Meen

Geoff is Professor of Applied Economics at the University of Reading. He specialises in housing economics, including problems of affordability.

He has been Specialist Advisor to the House of Lords Economic Affairs Select Committee during its recent Inquiry into the Economics of the UK Housing Market and also works closely with the Department of Communities and Local Government. He was awarded an OBE in 2007 for his work on housing.

He has published in most of the leading academic journals in the field and recently published a new book on historical approaches to housing economics.

https://www.reading.ac.uk/economics/research/centres/econ-ichue.aspx

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ADD Support Team

Analysis and Data Directorate

Department for Communities and Local Government

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Organizer: Analysis and Data Directorate, Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities

Email: Analytical.Services@levellingup.gov.uk

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