Dan Wilson Craw
Deputy chief exec at Generation Rent. Geordie. Mostly housing, sometimes other policy stuff and bad jokes
- Improving protections for tenants goes hand in hand with better conditions for first time buyers. Crazy how many politicians and commentators are wedded to a rental system that a) sucks and b) is hard to escape
- Weird, I thought the Renters' Rights Bill was going to cause the whole market to collapse. www.ft.com/content/1372...
- Since changes to tax on second homes and holiday lets in England, their numbers appear to have peaked, falling from 347,000 in 2024 to 336,000 in 2025. The data is still a bit noisy, with some councils identifying more second homes to charge a premium on, so the fall could be even greater.
- Holiday lets are pricing locals out of their own communities. The Government must give councils the powers they need to license and limit them, now. Without action, tourism will keep taking homes. Read more in our latest blog 👇 www.generationrent.org/2026/02/02/w...
- It's... memorable
- Trouble for Labour is policies to drive up productivity are impeding their Pride In Place agenda by making it harder to run businesses like this www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
- Is the UK on the cusp of a productivity revival? ft.trib.al/bET00Dc
- Great explainer of what lies behind the grievances against the student loans system. Essentially students were told the threshold would rise with earnings, but it hasn't. Though I'm still unclear on who has benefited from the repeated freezes: the taxpayer, universities? inews.co.uk/inews-lifest...
- On PM yesterday I heard the BBC's central America correspondent switch from received pronunciation to a dramatic Spanish accent to say "Marco Rubio"
