Low quality/haven’t thought about this for very long:
It’s unintuitive to me that a small organisation could make a big difference to an area of policy that (from the outside) seems to get a lot of focus. Take for example the changes the UK Government has made to planning permission in the last few years. Being from the south-east, everybody seems to have an opinion on housing supply, so it doesn’t seem to be a neglected issue when it comes to public attention.
I think there’s also a coordination problem here. A lot of people care a little bit about this, but it’s hardly anyone’s top priority, so there have been basically no serious, committed, focused campaigns to actually create and promote specific policies.
I agree with that Stephen. I might nuance it to say that there have not been such campaigns to promote policies that are optimised for political achievability.
I agree that the outside view of changes here looks grim.
I think it isn’t exactly neglected when it comes to public attention, but the focus on supply isn’t really there and most policies that are proposed are not very good. So IMO there is space for orgs that focus on supply and promote actually good policies.
Low quality/haven’t thought about this for very long:
It’s unintuitive to me that a small organisation could make a big difference to an area of policy that (from the outside) seems to get a lot of focus. Take for example the changes the UK Government has made to planning permission in the last few years. Being from the south-east, everybody seems to have an opinion on housing supply, so it doesn’t seem to be a neglected issue when it comes to public attention.
I think there’s also a coordination problem here. A lot of people care a little bit about this, but it’s hardly anyone’s top priority, so there have been basically no serious, committed, focused campaigns to actually create and promote specific policies.
I agree with that Stephen. I might nuance it to say that there have not been such campaigns to promote policies that are optimised for political achievability.
I agree that the outside view of changes here looks grim.
I think it isn’t exactly neglected when it comes to public attention, but the focus on supply isn’t really there and most policies that are proposed are not very good. So IMO there is space for orgs that focus on supply and promote actually good policies.