Ian, we're doing a special episode about housing. I just wondered if you care to comment on that at all?

No, I'm afraid I can't. There just isn't any room.

Page 94, the Private Eye Podcast.

Hello and welcome back to page 94. My name is Andrew Hunter. I homelessness and about social housing.

Plus we'll also be talking to the magazine's editor,

Ian Hislop, all about anonymity in Private Eye and why so many of the contributors

don't even have the guts to put their name to the stories that they write.

But first, housing. A large piece of legislation has just gone through the House of Lords.

It's called the Homelessness Reduction Bill and there's a big piece about it in the latest

edition of Private Eye. Rachel Clay is the Eye's housing editor and to start off I

asked her about the first thing that people do once they have actually been made homeless and where they can go from there.

At the moment when you're made homeless you don't get help until you are standing with your bags in the council office.

Up until that point, it doesn't matter if you know that you're going to lose your home in a couple of weeks.

The help doesn't kick in until you're standing on the doorstep.

So it will, they've been given a pot of money, which they say

isn't enough, but people always say that, but they've got some money. This is local councils.

Local councils. Yeah. To intervene earlier in the process so have an officer who offers help earlier and

it also offers help to single people for the first time.

Yes and why is that unusual? Because at the moment it's just

for families or for vulnerable people. So if you for example Andy turned up at the

housing office at the local council and said you'd be made

homeless they would say bad luck off you go there isn't any help for you you

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