Housing has no shortage of statistics, yet somehow it still has a shortage of homes people can actually afford. Perhaps the problem is not that we lack data, but that we have been measuring symptoms instead of diagnosing the wider system.
In this episode of the Flywheel Economics Podcast, we explore why affordable housing should be understood as an ecosystem rather than a single market problem.
Join Favour Ogbadu, Dan Simpkins and Richard Ough for a deep dive into the hidden barriers that shape housing affordability from land, planning, and infrastructure to finance, transport, informal income, and local context. The conversation asks a crucial question: if building more homes is the obvious answer, why does the shortage still persist?
Together, they unpack why a house can be affordable as a product but unaffordable as a home, why standard metrics often miss access and inclusion, and how a global affordable housing index could help countries identify the real constraints holding them back.
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