7. The UK Housing Crisis

JUL 3, 202459 MIN

7. The UK Housing Crisis

JUL 3, 202459 MIN

Description

This long overdue episode is laser-focused on the housing crisis in the UK. Lock in. It makes for shocking listening.

TTWP talks to three people from unique perspectives:

Time stamp: 1'19 - 15'36

1. Giles Grover is someone who, along with hundreds of thousands of other people in Britain, is stuck living in a high-rise block covered in dangerous, life-threatening cladding, and who's being asked to stump up thousands of pounds to pay for remedial works;

Time stamp: 15'36 - 31:14

2. Jasmine Basran is a policy manger at the national homelessness charity, Crisis

Time stamp: 31:14 - 59'40

3. Kwajo Tweneboa who's a well-known campaigner in social housing.

For more on these issues, here are the show notes

END CLADDING SCANDAL:

https://endourcladdingscandal.org/

https://todaysconveyancer.co.uk/organisations-demand-labour-party-make-industry-pay-cladding-crisis/

HOMELESSNESS:

https://www.crisis.org.uk/about-us/

https://www.amnesty.org.uk/blogs/campaigns-blog/can-we-expect-next-government-make-homelessness-history?utm_source=twitter&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=awareness_education&utm_content=news

£10bn to end homelessness - 2018 polan by Crisis: https://www.crisis.org.uk/ending-homelessness/homelessness-knowledge-hub/international-plans-to-end-homelessness/everybody-in-how-to-end-homelessness-in-great-britain-2018/