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The Bunker – News without the nonsense

Roofless People – The Radical Rethink that Housing Needs?

The Bunker – News without the nonsense

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News, Society & Culture, Politics, Government

4.61K Ratings

🗓️ 6 October 2022

⏱️ 27 minutes

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Summary

A home should be a sanctuary. But for many people, it means sharing a bed, worrying about whether you’ll have a roof over your head, or whether home ownership is even possible. Hashi Mohamed, lawyer and author of A Home of One’s Own, calls Ros Taylor from his home in Wembley, to talk about arriving in Britain as a child refugee, why the planning system is political, and how we can tackle the housing crisis and now.  “The planning system is perceived as a place where ideas go to die. But the reality is more boring.” “Local politics just plays out through the planning system.”  “Your child won't get on the property ladder, your grandchild certainly won't. So how can you both worry about the housing crisis, and say 'not in my back yard'?” “People don't understand that new houses in your area actually leads to the value of your property going up.” “Housing has moved from the place where you lay your head to a pension fund.”  Support us on Patreon: www.patreon.com/bunkercast  Written and presented by Ros Taylor. Lead Producer: Jacob Jarvis. Producers: Jacob Archbold, Jelena Sofronijevic and Alex Rees. Assistant producer: Kasia Tomasiewicz. Audio production by Jade Bailey. Music: Kenny Dickinson. Group editor: Andrew Harrison. THE BUNKER is a Podmasters Production.  https://www.amazon.co.uk/Home-Ones-Own-Hashi-Mohamed/dp/1800811268/ref=tmm_pap_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=&sr=  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

My name is Stan. I'm at. Nice to meet you. So you took up photography where? I've always loved

0:05.5

photography but I turn it into earning a living at 60. I enrolled on a day course.

0:11.8

Well college. I loved going to college. It's good you can retry. I'm enrolled on the day course. But college?

0:13.0

I loved going to college.

0:14.0

It's good you can retrain and do something.

0:16.0

Yeah, yeah.

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Let's talk about working, learning, saving and making the most of living longer.

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0:36.7

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look after theirs with dental life. Pick up dental life in the pet food aisle. Hello and welcome to the bunker I'm Ros Taylor. A home should be a sanctuary, but for many people in Britain, it's not that at all.

1:16.2

It's a place you could be kicked out of at any time because your landlord decides to get another tenant or sell up.

1:21.8

Where you need the damp patch fixing, but the letting

1:24.7

agent won't act on it, where your kids have to share a bed end to end because there's no space

1:29.7

for another one.

1:31.2

Ashy Mohammed is now a barrister specializing in housing and the author of

1:34.8

A Home of One Zone. He lives in a place in Wembley, but it hasn't always been like

1:39.1

that for him. Welcome to the bunker, Hashi. Thank you very much for having me,

1:42.4

Ros.

1:42.8

Tell us about the first place or places you lived, because you moved about once a year as a child,

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