How do you solve the housing problems (in Portsmouth) ?
Pompey Politics Podcast
Simon Sansbury and Ian 'Tiny' Morris
5.0 • 4 Ratings
🗓️ 8 March 2026
⏱️ 55 minutes
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Summary
We’re joined by Cabinet Member for Housing & Preventing Homelessness, Cllr Darren Sanders.
- What are the myths about housing in the city?
- What are the biggest barriers to availability of affordable housing?
- What does the council actually do to prevent homelessness and help people back into long term housing?
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| 0:00.0 | Good evening and welcome to the Pompey Politics Podcast, the podcast where we discuss matters of |
| 0:05.4 | international, national and local political importance in a calm, measured and reasonable way |
| 0:11.6 | to get to the heart of the matter. I'm Ian Tiny Morris. |
| 0:14.5 | And I'm Simon Sandsbury. Good evening and welcome and I'll start off with just a gentle |
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| 0:36.6 | So yes. So, yes. |
| 0:38.9 | So today we got a nice subject to tackle and someone that knows what they're talking about with regard to it. |
| 0:45.7 | Housing. |
| 0:46.7 | One of the biggest issues facing Portsmouth right now. |
| 0:50.2 | The city has thousands of people on the housing waiting list with rising numbers of residents in temporary accommodation, |
| 0:57.1 | private rents that are many working people are struggling to simply afford. |
| 1:01.3 | And at the same time, Portsmouth is one of the most densely populated cities in the UK with very limited land left to build on. |
| 1:09.5 | We've had some great comments in from our, in from our, |
| 1:13.2 | in from our followers and our audience. |
| 1:15.5 | So we've had one from Laura about questioning about the lack of wheelchair accessible |
| 1:20.4 | properties and about the small number of those that are even on the, |
| 1:24.9 | you know, the estates that are being built on, |
| 1:27.0 | she mentions there that the estate she lives on built six houses suitable for wheelchair |
| 1:30.9 | users to move it straight into, but there needs to be more of this sort of inclusive building. |
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