The financialisation of housing land supply in England

Quintin Bradley

Urban Studies, 2021, vol. 58, issue 2, 389-404

Abstract: The aim of this article is to identify the calculative practices that turn urban development planning into the supply-side of land financialisation. My focus is on the statutory planning of housing supply and the accounting procedures, or market devices, that normalise the practices of land speculation in the earliest stage of the urban development process. I provide an analysis of the accountancy regime used by planning authorities in England to evidence a 5-year supply of housing land. Drawing on the work of Michel Callon on market framing, I assess the activities of economic agents in performing or ‘formatting’ this supply, its boundaries, externalities and rules of operation. I evidence the effect of this formatting in normalising the treatment of land as a financial asset and in orienting the statutory regulation of land supply to the provision of opportunities for the capture of increased ground rent at a cost to the delivery of new homes.

Keywords: financialisation; housebuilding; housing supply; land value; town planning; é‡‘èž åŒ–; 房屋建设; ä½ æˆ¿ä¾›åº”; 土地价值; 城市规划 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2021
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DOI: 10.1177/0042098020907278

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