Why are rents so high? 

Join us for an evening of The Adam Smith Institute's new series of events, Enlightenment Evenings, where our Chairman James Lawson interviews brilliant authors, academics and wonks on fascinating topics stirring up the Westminster scene.
​On Thursday, we have Maxwell, our Director of Research, speaking about the ASI's Cost of Rent Day.
​Alongside Tax Freedom Day, we at the Adam Smith Institute have decided to highlight one of the other equally pernicious ways that poor policy choices are eating into our pay packets; namely, the objectively insane prices that many of us are paying monthly just to keep a roof over our heads.
​Sunday marked Cost of Rent Day - the day on which, on average, a renter in England ceases to hand over their hard-earned money solely to their landlords and instead, begins to use that money for themselves.