Our quarterly update on the No Space Like Home project describes some of our recent activities, considers space standards in the student housing sector and provides an overview of new homes standards as promoted by Homes England and the UK government.

Phil Hubbard and Eleanor Wilkinson presented initial project findings at the Swiss Habitat Conference, Lausanne

Our quarterly update on the No Space Like Home project, with news on new books, papers as well as the first data outputs from our work.

New paper published on the regulation of small properties and the variation in the English planning system

We’ve just published the first newsletter from our project No space like home? Small domestic properties, compensatory urbanism and housing futures in English cities, discussing the adoption of space standards, how we are mapping small homes and our plans for finding out what it’s like to live in small homes

Attendees at the housing squeeze event, May 2025, where the issue of shrinking homes was put into international context

Phil Hubbard attended the first workshop of "The Socio-Economics of Overcrowding" on February 17 and 18, 2025 in Berlin at Frei University.

Our ESRC-funded project No space like home? Small domestic properties, compensatory urbanism and housing futures in English cities has officially launched.