#392 Vicky Spratt: We Need To Talk About Britain's Housing Crisis

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emma gannon

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🗓️ 23 June 2022

⏱️ 47 minutes

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My guest today is Vicky Spratt, the author of TENANTS: The People on the Frontline of Britain's Housing Emergency and journalist whose work regularly shapes public policy. She is also currently the iPaper's Housing Correspondent. Her 2016 campaign Make Renting Fair got letting fees in England and Wales banned, and she has spoken at political conferences, appeared on BBC News, Newsnight, Woman's Hour, Radio 4 and tons more. Vicky is an incredible voice on this issue and I found this episode really galvanising, enraging, inspiring and empowering. Vicky has a way of making people wake up and feel engaged when it comes to issues that feel pretty overwhelming. I hope you enjoy this episode and if you did please consider sharing with a friend or leaving a review - or both! Thanks for listening.

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0:00.7	This episode of Control or Delete is sponsored by King Fischer, the company behind
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0:58.0	Hello and welcome back to Control or Delete. My guest today is Vicki Spratt,
1:02.4	your author of Tenants, the people on the front line of Britain's housing emergency,
1:06.9	an award-winning journalist whose work regularly shapes public policy.
1:10.6	She is also currently the IEPA's housing correspondent, and she has such an important voice.
1:15.7	Her 2016 campaign Make Renting Fair got letting fees in England and Wales banned,
1:21.2	and she's spoken at many political conferences on BBC News, News Night, Women's Hour,
1:26.7	Radio 4, and tons more. Her work is so important, and this episode and her book
1:33.3	is really galvanising, inspiring, and empowering, and it will really make you
1:38.3	pay attention to what's going on at the moment in terms of the housing crisis in the UK and beyond.
1:44.4	Vicki's got a really great way of making people wake up and feel engaged when it comes to these
1:48.2	issues that can feel pretty overwhelming sometimes. I hope you enjoyed this episode,
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