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The Bunker – News without the nonsense

The housing crisis: Can Labour fix the Tories' mess? – with Kwajo Tweneboa

The Bunker – News without the nonsense

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News, Government, Politics, Society & Culture

4.61K Ratings

🗓️ 26 June 2024

⏱️ 20 minutes

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Summary

From the rising cost of mortgages to a lack of social housing, the housing crisis is one of the most pressing issues in this election. Hannah Fearn is joined by one of the UK’s most high-profile housing campaigners, Kwajo Tweneboa, whose book Our Country in Crisis: Britain's Housing Emergency and How We Rebuild is due out in July, to look at the sorry state of housing in the UK. We are sponsored by Indeed. Go to Indeed.com/bunker for £100 sponsored credit. Written and presented by Hannah Fearn. Producer: Liam Tait. Audio editor: Tom Taylor. Managing editor: Jacob Jarvis. Music by Kenny Dickinson. Group Editor: Andrew Harrison. THE BUNKER is a Podmasters Production. Instagram | Twitter Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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

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

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I loved going to college.

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It's good you can retrain and do something.

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

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Search Phoenix Group living longer. Hello and welcome to the bunker. You'll need to know on news and politics five days a week. I'm Hannah Fern.

0:43.7

Priced out and fed up the housing crisis is one of the most important election

0:47.8

issues for young voters. 40% of 18 to 25 year olds now say it's their top priority at the ballot box.

0:54.8

And no wonder because rents for a single room in a house share are now reaching a

0:58.7

ridiculous 1,000 pounds a month in London in the southeast.

1:01.7

And even at that price what you get is often unfit habitation.

1:05.0

The problem until now has been getting older people

1:08.0

who bought their homes at a time when housing was affordable

1:11.0

and of course that includes most sitting MPs to understand the size of the issue.

1:15.0

And as a journalist specializing in housing I've spent 20 years trying to explain what's going on, particularly for the poorest renters.

1:21.0

However, in just a couple of years, one young man has managed to change all that by sharing examples of the worst housing in Britain on social media and exposing bad landlords. He has managed to wake Westminster up. I'm joined by Quijo Tuenobu. Hi

1:35.8

Quijo. Hi, thank you for having me. Can I just first say well done? Why do you think that you've been able to break through and really capture the

1:45.1

intentions of politicians and the public right now? I think because so many people

1:49.8

are going through issues in relation to housing and have done for a very long time

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