Good Local Economics

Recently the deputy prime minister announced that the government is going to extend community budgets to right across the country – and is encouraging local authorities to apply to participate.

Areas of the northwest could soon be characterised by communities living in poor quality and increasingly expensive rented homes. Philip Leather and Brendan Nevin explain why

The housing market in the north west of England has so far failed to emerge from the crisis which during 2008 enveloped financial institutions and segments of the wider economy which were dependent upon consumer expenditure, financial services and property development.