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Video: watch our Housing Day chat with Alison Inman and David Orr
Housing sector stalwarts David Orr and Alison Inman took part in a live Twitter chat for Housing Day.
Ms Inman and Mr Orr talked about a range of issues related to the future role of social housing, including the Right to Buy, homeownership, building safety, regulation and mutuals.
The 56-minute session was chaired by Nathaniel Barker, deputy news editor at Inside Housing, who took questions for the duo from housing’s Twitterati.
Use the button below to view the whole video or scroll down to read some of the key quotes in tweets.
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Our tweets of the conversation:
“Organisations spend a lot of time giving themselves assurance that buildings are safe - that is not the same as giving the people who live in those homes the assurance they are safe” says @Alison_Inman #ihchat #HousingDay
— Inside Housing (@insidehousing)“Organisations spend a lot of time giving themselves assurance that buildings are safe - that is not the same as giving the people who live in those homes the assurance they are safe” says @Alison_Inman #ihchat #HousingDay
— Inside Housing (@insidehousing) October 8, 2019
“RTB properties tend to be less well-maintained than those in the social sector…I don’t think when you’ve got a scarce resource you should be flogging it off” @Alison_Inman is listing the reasons why she would scrap Right to Buy #IHchat #housingday
— Inside Housing (@insidehousing)“RTB properties tend to be less well-maintained than those in the social sector…I don’t think when you’ve got a scarce resource you should be flogging it off” @Alison_Inman is listing the reasons why she would scrap Right to Buy #IHchat #housingday
— Inside Housing (@insidehousing) October 8, 2019
“We expect poor people to pay more rent to build homes” We don’t do that in the NHS, says @Alison_Inman #Ihchat #HousingDay
— Inside Housing (@insidehousing)“We expect poor people to pay more rent to build homes” We don’t do that in the NHS, says @Alison_Inman #Ihchat #HousingDay
— Inside Housing (@insidehousing) October 8, 2019
“One of the consequences of the housing market we now have is there are many people in their 20s and 30s who have given up on owner-occupation and the big challenge for them is to ensure they have an affordable roof over their head” @DavidOrrCBE in full flow #IHchat #HousingDay
— Inside Housing (@insidehousing)“One of the consequences of the housing market we now have is there are many people in their 20s and 30s who have given up on owner-occupation and the big challenge for them is to ensure they have an affordable roof over their head” @DavidOrrCBE in full flow #IHchat #HousingDay
— Inside Housing (@insidehousing) October 8, 2019
“We’ve utterly failed to understand need in our our housing policy” @DavidOrrCBE slams the focus on home ownership as "nonsense" in #IHlive #IHchat #HousingDay
— Inside Housing (@insidehousing)“We've utterly failed to understand need in our our housing policy” @DavidOrrCBE slams the focus on home ownership as "nonsense" in #IHlive #IHchat #HousingDay
— Inside Housing (@insidehousing) October 8, 2019
Alison Inman is talking about the "fetishisation" of home ownership #ukhousing #ihchat #HousingDay
— Inside Housing (@insidehousing)Alison Inman is talking about the "fetishisation" of home ownership #ukhousing #ihchat #HousingDay
— Inside Housing (@insidehousing) October 8, 2019
