We need to talk about the housing crisis with Kwajo
Should I Delete That?
Alex Light & Em Clarkson
4.8 • 1.2K Ratings
🗓️ 2 July 2023
⏱️ 61 minutes
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Summary
This week on the podcast, Em and Alex are joined by social housing activist Kwajo Tweneboa. Kwajo grew up in social housing, and his family were housed in inhabitable conditions: unsafe spaces riddled with mould, cockroaches, mice, leaks and damp. Kwajo’s father was diagnosed with cancer and, whilst being nursed in this environment, passed away from his illness. After receiving little to no help in making their home habitable, Kwajo decided enough was enough, and gathered evidence from over 500 tenants that lived on his estate; this enabled them to shame their housing association into finally carrying out the works that were needed. From there, Kwajo has been continuing the fight, shaming landlords and housing associations across the UK into providing safe, sanitary homes for all.
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Produced & edited by Daisy Grant
Music by Alex Andrew
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| 0:00.0 | People ask me all what you do and I'm just saying I'm massive pain in the arm, but I am and it's good because I think, yeah, you need to keep them on their toes. |
| 0:15.0 | Hello and welcome back to Shared Elite there, I'm Alex Light. |
| 0:27.0 | And I'm Dan Clarkson. |
| 0:28.0 | How are you doing? |
| 0:29.0 | I'm good, I've got something so awkward to tell you. |
| 0:31.0 | God, last Friday. |
| 0:32.0 | It's the worst thing I've ever told in my life. |
| 0:34.0 | Oh my God. |
| 0:36.0 | Oh, I still gag when I think about it. |
| 0:39.0 | Okay, so we went for a nursery tour. |
| 0:40.0 | We went to get a look at a nursery for my babies. |
| 0:42.0 | Yeah. |
| 0:43.0 | I loved it, loved the woman running it. |
| 0:45.0 | Just good vibes, so great. |
| 0:47.0 | Did the tour, had to dash, had to go, we had to go. |
| 0:51.0 | So I was like, okay, bye. |
| 0:54.0 | The woman lent out her arms and I thought, well, that's very friendly for a, you know, we're just in a nursery tour. |
| 1:02.0 | But all right, I got in there and I gave her a big hug and I realised the second too late that she was not hugging me. |
| 1:10.0 | She was reaching to press the little green button to open the door. |
| 1:16.0 | Oh my God. |
| 1:18.0 | Now, luckily for me, I married a knight in shining armour who saw the situation and lent him also for a hug |
| 1:28.0 | to make it look less weird and like we were just huggers. |
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