Ep. 57 Evicted in a pandemic
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The Tip Off
4.7 • 650 Ratings
🗓️ 26 February 2022
⏱️ 29 minutes
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Summary
What do you do if the data you need doesn’t exist?
When the pandemic hit I couldn’t stop wondering about how the impact of lockdown, sickness or bereavement on people’s ability to pay their rent or mortgage. I wanted to know more, but I couldn’t do it alone. This is the story of how a group of more than 20 journalists, all across England and Wales, came together in one of the largest court-reporting projects of its kind.
Read all about it: https://www.thebureauinvestigates.com/stories/2021-09-23/evicted-in-less-than-10-minutes-courts-fail-tenants-broken-by-pandemic
https://www.thebureauinvestigates.com/stories/2021-11-03/banks-repossessions-pandemic-mortgages
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-58643437
This show is a co-production of Studio to be.
Hosted and produced: Maeve McClenaghan
Co-Executive Producers: Joaquin Alvarado and Ken Ikeda
Producer: Olivia Aylmer
Audio Editing and sound design: Maeve McClenaghan
Voice acting: Francis Whittaker
Original music: Claudia Meza
Theme music: Dice muse
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| 0:00.0 | I'm Maeve McLanagan and this is the tip-off. |
| 0:12.2 | On this episode, something a bit more personal than usual. |
| 0:16.6 | I want to talk you through an investigation that I led recently. |
| 0:21.5 | Back when a pandemic first hit, I was somewhat distracted. |
| 0:26.1 | I was heavily pregnant and was about to move house. |
| 0:30.1 | And to complete the ultimate stress trifecta, |
| 0:32.6 | I was also due to publish my first book, No Fixer Bode, |
| 0:36.2 | which charts homelessness and housing issues in the UK. |
| 0:39.9 | So, I was trying to process all that, all those personal logistics, while also thinking about the UK's |
| 0:46.7 | housing situation, and every night the news was blaring out horrifying warnings. |
| 0:52.5 | Doctors in Wuhan were warning that the mystery virus they were seeing and people connected |
| 0:57.8 | to the market was similar to SARS. |
| 1:00.2 | The critical thing we must do is stop the disease spreading between households. |
| 1:05.9 | The Department of Health has announced in the last half hour that 14 more people across |
| 1:09.8 | Britain have died after testing positive for coronavirus. It brings the total number of deaths here in the last half hour that 14 more people across Britain have died after testing |
| 1:11.6 | positive for coronavirus. It brings the total number of deaths here in the UK so far to 35. |
| 1:17.1 | The horrendous impact of COVID-19 on people's health and well-being was all too clear to see. |
| 1:23.1 | But I started to think about the other implications, the things that might be going on unseen. |
| 1:29.8 | If people were losing their jobs or were unable to work because of illness or bereavement, |
| 1:35.8 | how would that affect their ability to pay their rent or their mortgage? |
| 1:40.6 | It was an idea that just kept coming back to me. |
| 1:46.3 | The government kept telling us, |
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