Dame Louise Casey on Homelessness

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BBC

Politics, News

4.4 • 6.4K Ratings

🗓️ 24 June 2020

⏱️ 40 minutes

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Summary

Thousands of homeless people were moved into hotels at the start of the pandemic. Today the government announced £105 million for councils to help rough sleepers stay off the streets as lockdown eases and those hotels reopen for business. Homelessness “Czar” Dame Louise Casey tells us how this policy worked and the lessons we could learn from it. And, what will pubs really be like when they reopen in July?

Studio director: Emma Crowe Producers: Ben Weiz, Natalie Ktena and Harriet Noble Assistant editors: Emma Close and Sam Bonham Editor: Dino Sofos

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0:00.0	BBC Sounds, music radio podcasts.
0:04.7	Hello, we've got loads for you in this episode, including a fascinating interview
0:08.6	with the government's homelessness, Tsar Louise Casey.
0:12.4	But first, I just wanted to tell you a story about something that happened to me today that sums up so many of the things that are just going on in the world at the moment.
0:20.0	There was a picture in the Times newspaper today of a quite good-looking shirtless man working
0:25.8	in the park in the sunshine to illustrate a story about how fewer people are going to go to offices
0:31.6	in future because of coronavirus. I was walking through the park today
0:37.0	and the guy was there. The guy from the paper was in the park again today still with his shirt off working on his laptop.
0:45.0	So I went up and had a little chat with him.
0:47.0	He's called Dominic.
0:48.0	He works for an artificial intelligence company.
0:51.0	He's got polarizing sunglasses so he can see the screen of his laptop in the bright
0:55.9	sunshine. We did discuss that. And he's quite relaxed about his new found media notoriety. So there you go a little story
1:05.2	that sums up my life his life office life technology and coronavirus. Plenty more to come in this episode of the coronavirus newscast.
1:16.0	The coronavirus newscost from the BBC.
1:18.0	What is this virus? How does it spread?
1:21.0	How do we protect ourselves and our loved ones I got some test
1:24.0	results back for coronavirus and it came back positive we're just kind of
1:29.2	trying to feel our way into this new normal I must must level with you, we level with the British public.
1:35.2	More families, many more families are going to lose loved ones before their time.
1:40.9	Relax, they're doing great.
1:43.2	It all will pay us.
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