Beth Stratford
Beth Stratford is an Honorary Research Fellow at the UCL Institute for Innovation and Public Purpose (IIPP).
Beth Stratford is a political economist whose research focuses on housing justice, rent theory, and ecological macroeconomics. She is currently co-leading the Homes that Don’t Cost the Earth project – a collaboration between IIPP, Arup, Dark Matter Labs, and Rising Tide – designed to explore how English housing policy can evolve to meet needs within planetary boundaries and real-world resource constraints. The project also aims to build a broad coalition capable of turning these ideas into practical change.
Alongside this, Beth is completing a detailed analysis of how different rent control models affect landlord profits, housing benefit spending, and poverty levels. The research will be published soon by the New Economics Foundation.
Beth holds an Honorary Research Fellowship at the UCL Institute for Innovation and Public Purpose, where she also supervises PhD candidate Stefan Horn. Her past work includes co-authoring Land for the Many, a flagship report for the UK Labour Party, and The UK’s Path to a Doughnut-Shaped Recovery, published by the University of Leeds.
A founder member of the London Renters Union and advisor to Positive Money, Beth has long been involved in movements for systemic economic reform. She has previously served as a fellow at the New Economics Foundation, advised The Social Guarantee, and contributed to Labour’s Sustainable Economics Working Group.