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Our most listened-to podcast episodes of 2018
We reveal which episodes of The Housing Podcast were played the most number of times
The Housing Podcast is a production of Inside Housing magazine, the UK’s leading publication for the social and affordable housing sector.
In 2018, we launched a new weekly podcast series.
The Housing Podcast sees Inside Housing journalists, often joined by some of the biggest names in social housing, discussing the latest sector news and talking points.
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Below, in reverse order, are The Housing Podcast episodes which have been played the most times according to Soundcloud statistics:
10. Meet Kate Henderson, new chief executive of the NHF
The Housing Podcast team met Kate Henderson, the new chief executive of the National Housing Federation, to talk social housing, diversity, Grenfell and more.
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9. The supported housing saga
The government’s announcement that it will drop plans to change the way supported housing is funded brought to a close a near three-year cycle of lobbying against these proposals.
The Housing Podcast looked back at this story, which began with a throwaway line in George Osborne’s Autumn Statement in 2015.
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8. Is Sadiq Khan delivering on housing?
After an attack in the Evening Standard, The Housing Podcast team caught up with deputy mayor James Murray and Conservative housing spokesperson Andrew Boff to assess London mayor Sadiq Khan’s record on housing.
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7. The true cost of homelessness
Inside Housing has conducted in-depth research into the amount councils are spending on temporary accommodation for homeless people, with shocking results. In this episode of The Housing Podcast, we took a look at the financial aspect of homelessness and discussed the figures with Matt Downie, director of policy and external affairs at Crisis.
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6. The tale of the Right to Buy extension
Inside Housing’s editor-in-chief Emma Maier joined The Housing Podcast team to look back at the rise and partial fall of plans to extend Right to Buy discounts to 1.3 million housing association tenants, first announced by David Cameron in 2015.
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5. Was Dispatches fair to housing associations?
The Housing Podcast team was joined by Tom Murtha to discuss the controversial Dispatches documentary on housing associations titled Getting Rich from the Housing Crisis.
Mr Murtha appeared on the programme but felt it misrepresented his views. The team also heard views from Brian Robson of the Joseph Rowntree Foundation and Victor da Cunha, chief executive of Curo, about the documentary.
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4. What would a no-deal Brexit means for housing?
What would the consequences be the UK’s housing sector if Britain left the EU without a deal? The Housing Podcast team was joined by Brian Berry, chief executive of the Federation of Master Builders; John Perry, policy advisor at the Chartered Institute of Housing; and property journalist Rhiannon Curry to ask what it would all mean.
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3. A brief history of council housing
The Housing Podcast team spoke to John Boughton, social historian and author of Municipal Dreams: The Rise and Fall of Council Housing, about the five phases of local authority housing – starting in the East End of London in 1900.
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2. Theresa May scraps the cap, what does it mean?
To the delight of councils across the country, Theresa May announced that she will scrap the Housing Revenue Account borrowing cap.
With the help of Eamon McGoldrick of the National Federation of ALMOs, in this episode of The Housing Podcast we discussed the history of this contentious area of housing policy and looked at what happens now.
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1. Rating the Social Housing Green Paper
The Housing Podcast team was joined by David Pipe from the Chartered Institute of Housing and housing columnist Jules Birch to rank the proposals in the Social Housing Green Paper out of 10.
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