Faultlines: Why isn’t housing a bigger election issue?
This Is Why
Sky News
4.0 • 552 Ratings
🗓️ 18 March 2024
⏱️ 24 minutes
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Summary
This episode asks 'is our housing market in crisis?', with not enough homes and expensive rentals forcing an increasing number of people into homelessness.
In 2021/22, just 7,528 new social homes were delivered. Nowhere near enough for the 1.1 million people on the waiting list and the government’s target of building 300,000 new homes a year. The seaside town Hastings is on the frontline of all that is wrong with the housing system, with evictions, social housing shortages and Airbnb among the issues behind the problem.
On this episode of the Sky News Daily, Tom Cheshire talks to our people and politics correspondent Nick Martin in Hastings, to uncover the scale of the problems, and hear from those at the heart of it.
Producer: Alex Edden
Assistant producer: Iona Brunker
Editor: Paul Stanworth
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| 0:39.9 | So I'm recording this on my phone and then I'm going to use Canva to edit and upload it. |
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| 1:03.4 | How do I stop recording, Darren? Hello, I'm Tom Cheshire in for the Sky News Daily. Now today, |
| 1:09.2 | we're launching a new series across Sky News called Faultlines. It's in-depth reporting, looking at all sorts of social challenges across the country as we head towards the election. |
| 1:13.5 | And when it comes to challenges, well, one of the biggest is the housing crisis. |
| 1:17.9 | So that's what we're looking at today. |
| 1:20.0 | It is a very sobering report. |
| 1:22.2 | It's a pretty damning picture in 2024. |
| 1:28.3 | Well, our people and politics correspondent, Nick Martin, has been inside Hastings |
| 1:32.5 | looking at this issue. |
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