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The Bunker – News without the nonsense

Daily: Roofless People – How we COULD solve the Housing Crisis

The Bunker – News without the nonsense

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🗓️ 19 March 2021

⏱️ 27 minutes

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Summary

The Grenfell tragedy exposed the worst of a housing crisis which affects some 8 million people and leaves one in seven people in unaffordable or unsuitable homes. How did we get into this mess and how do we get out of it? Why can’t we build enough houses in the right places? Alex Andreou talks to Catherine Ryder, Director of Policy and Research at the National Housing Federation, and Steve Cole of the country’s largest social landlord the Clarion Group, about beating a huge challenge that has defeated successive governments.  “Housing Minister is THE big churn post in government. Everyone comes in with one big thing they want to do…” – Steve Cole “I know only a handful of people in the UK who live where they did ten years ago, and only a handful of people in Greece who DON’T.” – Alex Andreou “There’s been a huge flip from government building supply to supporting demand… The housing benefit bill is £23bn.” – Steve Cole Presented by Alex Andreou. Produced by Andrew Harrison. Assistant producers Jacob Archbold and Jelena Sofronijevic. Music by Kenny Dickinson. Audio production by Alex Rees. THE BUNKER is a Podmasters Production See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

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photography but I turn it into earning a living at 60. I enrolled on a day course.

0:11.8

Well college. I loved going to college. It's good you can retry. I'm enrolled on the day course. But college?

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I loved going to college.

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It's good you can retrain and do something.

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Yeah, yeah.

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look after theirs with dental life. Pick up dental life in the pet food aisle. Hello and welcome to another edition of the Bunker Daily. I am your host, Alexandra. When I moved to the UK from Greece in

1:16.5

1990, the biggest cultural shock and by a long way, the thing that almost made me pack up and move back, was seeing cardboard city.

1:26.5

I had never experienced homelessness at this scale.

1:30.5

It seemed unfathomable that people in such large numbers would be so completely abandoned by state and family.

1:37.0

Almost two decades later I experienced a year of homelessness myself and the system which creates the conditions

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for it came into crystal clear focus.

1:48.8

That Britain is experiencing a housing crisis is something I have heard for three decades and yet government

1:54.6

after government whatever their market ideology and however good their intentions

1:58.9

have failed to address it. I hope that my guests today can at least point us in the right direction.

2:05.9

Catherine Ryder is Director of Policy and Research at the National Housing Federation.

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