Dan Wilson Craw

@danwilsoncraw

Deputy chief exec at Generation Rent. Geordie. Mostly housing, sometimes other policy stuff and daft observations. Employer doesn't necessarily agree with everything I say.

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Dan Wilson Craw@danwilsoncraw· 8d

Finally, great lines from Gordon at Living Rent

As in New York, there are those who believe the threat of availability falling in response to controls is overhyped. “Landlords aren’t snails,” says Gordon Maloney at tenants’ union Living Rent. “When they leave [the market] they don’t put their house on their back and take it away with them.”

Those exiting the sector either sell to another landlord, which does not affect overall rental supply, he argues, or to an owner-occupier, which “removes precisely one unit from supply and one unit from demand”, he argues.

Dan Wilson Craw@danwilsoncraw· 8d

Build to rent investor though says it's basically fine

Some institutional landlords say rent measures that are planned and communicated clearly can be accommodated. “We’ve been operating in rent control environments for a long time,” says Daniel Breeden, a senior managing director at Greystar, one of the world’s largest landlords, citing Amsterdam as an example.

He adds that while housing supply in the Dutch city has been impacted by rent regulation and he would rather that rents were left to market forces, controls are “something we’re comfortable with as long as we know what they are . . . we’re not going to leave the market”.

Dan Wilson Craw@danwilsoncraw· 8d

Are vacancy rates in NYC good or bad? Private equity spokesperson suggests they're high (though I wonder how the economics of keeping homes empty plays out) - but then a chart immediately shows us that they're a lot lower than other US cities

Stuart Boesky, chief executive of affordable housing-focused private equity fund Pembrook Capital, estimates that between 20,000 and 50,000 rent-stabilised units are currently empty.

“When a lease comes up and a tenant decides to leave, the landlord has two decisions,” he says. “He can put money into the property knowing he will [not recoup] it, or he can lock the door.”

Furthermore, opponents add, rent stabilisation removes incentives to move, resulting in an inefficient allocation of housing. “You might find a set of parents or a widow or widower in a three-bedroom apartment,” says Korchak.

Chart shows vacancy rates for flats in Austin, DFW, LA, SF and NYC

Dan Wilson Craw@danwilsoncraw· 16d

Utterly bizarre oped in the Times. The content itself, about Burnham's appointments and vibes, is interesting albeit with Phillips' usual conservative slant. But I only clicked to find out in what way Kemi Badenoch actually likes Britain and got no answer: only one paragraph even mentions her

Screenshot of Times article:
Trevor Phillips
Andy Burnham and Kemi Badenoch inspire hope for better times
The prime minister and Tory leader resemble traditional politicians who actually like Britain — is that enough to see off populism?

Burnham and Kemi Badenoch, on the other hand, evince a real enthusiasm for the people of Britain as they are now, warts and all, even though they differ about where we go next. Andy and Kemi — people are now referring to them by their first names — seem like emanations from the historical mainstreams of their tribes.

Dan Wilson Craw@danwilsoncraw· Jul 3

Of course, were she a Simpsons fan, she would have simply declared a "Go To Work With Your Parents Day" like Seymour Skinner did that one time

BBC Story: Head who changed term dates to go on cruise banned

Dan Wilson Craw@danwilsoncraw· May 26

Landlord exodus latest, courtesy of @resi-analyst.bsky.social. Eviction and capital gains tax figures suggest a lot of landlords did sell in 2024-25 but this chart suggests that more landlords bought so the sector continued to grow

Net change in dwelling stock by housing tenure, England. Source: MHCLG. Stacked bar chart showing the growth/shrinkage of owner occupation, social housing and private rented for each year from 1991/92 to 2024/25. The past six years have seen all tenures grow, including private rented homes, though between 2002/03 and 2015-16 the tenure grew a lot more substantially, with owner occupation shrinking every year from 2007/08 to 2013/14

Dan Wilson Craw@danwilsoncraw· May 13

Good to see Northern Stage going in hard with its crackdown on ticket tours

screenshot of theatre booking page with text "Please select your seats (maximum 500 for this event per order)"

Dan Wilson Craw@danwilsoncraw· May 9

Finally, no surprises that high private renter areas are negatively correlated with Reform/positively with Lab/Greens. No relationship nationally with social housing, but up here Reform had most success in areas with lots of social tenants. Though granted the tenure varies a lot around the country

Dan Wilson Craw@danwilsoncraw· May 9

Second - Reform doing very well in areas with lots of carers/people with disabilities. A (broad) group you'd think Labour would be doing more for than Reform.

Dan Wilson Craw@danwilsoncraw· May 9

Fascinating (particularly as someone who now has a Reform councillor in formerly solid Labour Tyneside). These findings stuck out to me: First, these groups for whom surely the Employment Rights Act was intended - does Labour have a strategy for reaching them (eg via union rights)?

Dan Wilson Craw@danwilsoncraw· May 3

#ServingSuggestion

Dan Wilson Craw@danwilsoncraw· Apr 22

I suspect Duolingo knew exactly what it was doing with this one

Duolingo screenshot of completed exercise saying "Die Postkarte kostet zehn Euro"

Lucille Bluth from Arrested Development with caption "it's one postcard Michael, what could it cost, 10 euros?"

Dan Wilson Craw@danwilsoncraw· Apr 17

Spotted Peter Vaughan in the Rijksmuseum #CharacterActorsOfTheDutchGoldenAge

16th Century Dutch painting of an old lady

Dan Wilson Craw@danwilsoncraw· Mar 27

Four weeks in and I'm kinda surprised I've not seen one of these yet

Bob Mortimer Would I Lie To You meme with text: I once started a war having forgotten the country I was attacking had the ability to shut off one fifth of the world's oil supply

Dan Wilson Craw@danwilsoncraw· Mar 19

Insane behaviour from the government

Dan Wilson Craw@danwilsoncraw· Mar 11

Tom Adams has clearly not tried the blackberries that grow in my garden

Dan Wilson Craw@danwilsoncraw· Mar 9

Savills reckons the private rented sector has shrunk. I think the big driver of that is the capital gains tax cut in 2024, along with higher interest rates. The Renters Rights Act doesn't change the fundamentals for landlords who play by the rules www.thetimes.com/life-style/p...

Dan Wilson Craw@danwilsoncraw· Mar 4

Robert Jenrick said this one week after his party announced that it would tear up laws limiting rent increases to once per year and making it harder for landlords to evade their responsibilities

Screenshot of Hansard from the Spring Statement 3/3/26. Robert Jenrick Reform UK, Newark
"The Chancellor is like a rogue landlord who keeps squeezing the tenant with higher and higher rent, and all the while, the property is going to rack and ruin."

Dan Wilson Craw@danwilsoncraw· Feb 28

Interesting chart from @edhodgsoned.bsky.social @moreincommonuk.bsky.social - Labour struggling with renters. May change once Renters Rights Act comes in and if slowdown in rents (reported on BBC today) continues.

Dan Wilson Craw@danwilsoncraw· Feb 27

Looking back at some of the MRPs that have been predicting a Reform landslide, the combined Reform and Conservative vote yesterday was 8 percentage points less than @moreincommonuk.bsky.social had for them in G&D in Jan. Obv a byelection but I wonder how seriously these polls will be taken now.

Dan Wilson Craw@danwilsoncraw· Feb 26

Dan Wilson Craw@danwilsoncraw· Feb 21

Live Lowry painting on the red button right now

Dan Wilson Craw@danwilsoncraw· Feb 13

Section 21 court claims were falling over the course of 2025 - largely due, in my view, to rent inflation on new tenancies slowing down. That means landlords aren't raising rents so drastically on current tenants and evicting if challenged. But anecdotal data suggests we'll see the line rise this Q

Dan Wilson Craw@danwilsoncraw· Feb 3

It's... memorable

Dan Wilson Craw@danwilsoncraw· Jan 23

Hi @companieshouse.blog.gov.uk.web.brid.gy, I really don't think these dates warrant a big green tick

Dan Wilson Craw@danwilsoncraw· Jan 21

Honestly, with the structural barriers to renters getting a smart meter (unclear responsibility, landlord resistance, frequent moves) just 7 percentage points lower than home owners feels like a win

Dan Wilson Craw@danwilsoncraw· Jan 20

You can tell a nerd made BlueSky because "sports" is only one category

Dan Wilson Craw@danwilsoncraw· Jan 14

Build-to-rent is seen as a source of much-needed new homes, but there are concerns about the practices of some of these landlords I spoke to the FT for a piece last week, alluding to this i story about evictions and rent rises at a Realstar-backed development in Lewisham inews.co.uk/news/first-t...

Dan Wilson Craw@danwilsoncraw· Jan 13

After taking inflation into account, house prices have been falling in recent years - @willdunn.bsky.social is worth reading (as ever) on the implications of this www.newstatesman.com/politics/uk-...

Dan Wilson Craw@danwilsoncraw· Jan 12

Tyne. Reminding me that I need to take more photos from the train