A World to Win: The War on Tenants w/ Vicky Spratt

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🗓️ 13 July 2022

⏱️ 33 minutes

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Summary

This week, Grace speaks to Vicky Spratt, author of the book Tenants: The People on the Frontline of Britain’s Housing Emergency. They discuss the multiple problems that tenants face in accessing and maintaining secure housing and the strategies renters in the UK are using to resist the exploitative and extractive practices of landlords.

A World to Win is a podcast from Grace Blakeley and Tribune bringing you a weekly dose of socialist news, theory, and action with guests from around the world. Thanks to our producer Conor Gillies and to the Lipman-Miliband Trust for making this episode possible.

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0:00.0	Hello and welcome to another episode of A Well To Win. This week I am speaking to Vicki
0:17.3	Spratt about her book Tenants, which looks at all of the multiple problems that tenants
0:24.2	in the UK face in accessing and maintaining secure housing and also the strategies that
0:31.5	tenants are using to resist the exploitative extractive practices of landlords. Thank
0:38.6	you as always to all of our amazing patrons who make the show possible. If you would like
0:43.0	to support the show on Patreon you can sign up at patreon.com slash a world to win pot
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2:01.6	Hello and welcome to another episode of A Well To Win. I am here today with Vicki Spratt
2:07.6	and we are talking about the housing crisis. How are you doing Vicki?
2:12.4	Hi, thanks so much for having me. I'm great. How are you?
2:16.4	I'm good. Thank you. I really enjoyed your book and I will put a link in the description
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