Inside Britain’s housing crisis
The New Statesman | UK politics and culture
The New Statesman
4.4 • 1.4K Ratings
🗓️ 20 September 2022
⏱️ 32 minutes
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Summary
The UK has a housing crisis: in the past decade, decent and stable living arrangements have become an impossible dream for many.
The New Statesman’s senior associate editor Rachel Cunliffe speaks to Hashi Mohamed, author of A Home of One’s Own, which draws on his own history of housing insecurity and his professional career as a planning barrister, about how we came to this point and what can be done.
They discuss the segregating and alienating effects of housing insecurity, why successive governments have failed to act on this crisis, and how they can be persuaded that it’s a priority.
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| 0:30.2 | Hi, I'm Rachel Cunnelliffe. |
| 0:32.2 | On today's episode of The New Statesman Podcast, |
| 0:34.7 | we're taking a break from news of the Queen's Funeral |
| 0:37.2 | and instead talking about housing. |
| 0:39.6 | Are we speaking to Hashima Hamid, |
| 0:41.6 | the barrister and author of the new book, |
| 0:43.6 | A Home of One's Own? |
| 0:45.0 | Why the Housing Crisis Matters? |
| 0:53.0 | Well, Hashima, thank you so much for joining us on the podcast. |
| 0:57.6 | Your book is a very powerful, |
| 1:01.4 | rousing manifesto about the urgent need |
| 1:04.7 | to solve the housing crisis, |
| 1:07.0 | which is something that we've talked a lot about |
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