The Barker Review of Housing Supply (2003–04)
The UK Treasury-commissioned review by Bank of England MPC member Kate Barker: official documentation that Britain's housing shortage is a land-and-planning problem, with agricultural-to-residential land value gaps measured in hundredfolds — the institutional anchor for the UK supply diagnosis.
Summary
The Barker Review of Housing Supply (interim 2003, final 2004), commissioned by the UK Treasury from Bank of England MPC member Kate Barker, is the official diagnosis of Britain's housing shortage as a land supply and planning problem: chronically unresponsive housebuilding, and agricultural-to-residential land value gaps so large they measure the planning system's scarcity premium directly.[1] Harrison's Boom Bust engages it critically (Chs. 1–2, 7) — accepting the land-value-gap evidence while arguing the supply-only remedy ignores the cycle;[2] the wiki's England supply evidence is the peer-reviewed successor quantifying the same constraint. Stub pending direct read: [VERIFY: headline land-value-gap figures and recommendation list from the final report before citing specifics.]
See Also
- Hilber & Vermeulen — England housing supply — the peer-reviewed successor
- Narrative: The Housing Crisis Is a Land Crisis
- Harrison, Boom Bust (book) — the Georgist critique of the review
Sources
- Kate Barker, Review of Housing Supply: Delivering Stability — Securing our Future Housing Needs (Final Report, HM Treasury, 2004). gov.uk — used for the review's commission, author, and diagnosis (A-claims; full text unfetched — see verification note).
- Fred Harrison, Boom Bust (2005), Chs. 1–2, 7 — used for the Georgist critique (D-claims, attributed; Heavy scan). Book page