Where to begin with Britain's housing crisis, and it is most certainly a crisis.

From rent-switch spiral year after year to unsafe conditions, whether it's cladding

which could catch fire or damp and mold, millions of people across the country have their

psychology their everyday lives shaped by their relationship to housing every single day.

Vicki Spratt is a journalist at the I NewsPaper. She's an expert, a specialist on housing

and the housing crisis. She's written a new book called Tenants describing in grim detail

just how bad things really are in the UK.

Vicki Spratt, welcome to Downstream.

Thanks for having me.

How are you doing? You good?

I'm good. Yeah, mostly good. Start of 2023 off with a bang with terrible housing data

but otherwise I'm well.

What's the housing crisis?

We're talking about 2023. New start, new challenges for people and housing's the biggest

one I think, which is why we've got you on.

So let's start right on the deep end.

What is the housing crisis?

What is that?

We talk about the housing crisis all the time. Obviously some people aren't experiencing

a housing crisis.

How are we defining it?

Well, straight in with the big question, how are we defining it?

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