Housebuilding 1/4

Rob and Alex discuss the heyday of British house building in the 1930s. How cheap labour, low interest rates and light regulation came together to generate a transformative building boom - and a cultural backlash to match it...

Chapters

• 0:00 Intro
• 0:41 Alex's elevator pitch
• 1:15 When were things last this bad?
• 3:44 The current state of affairs
• 5:56 The heyday of British housebuilding
• 6:54 The four factors of productivity
• 9:36 The housebuilding magic number
• 11:11 Rates of housebuilding in the 1920s & 30s
• 12:47 The backlash to building
• 14:26 The regulatory environment
• 15:26 Losing legs and lives
• 16:55 Cheap money
• 18:24 Wrap-up