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Our most listened-to podcast episodes of 2019
We reveal which episodes of The Housing Podcast were played the most over the past 12 months. Picture: Getty
The Housing Podcast is a production of Inside Housing magazine, the UK’s leading publication for the social and affordable housing sector.
In 2019, The Housing Podcast went from strength to strength, growing its audience among the sector and beyond.
The episodes feature Inside Housing journalists discussing the biggest housing issues of the day, often joined by some of the biggest names in social housing.
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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. Is council housebuilding about to make a comeback?
Nearly 100 years after the introduction of the Addison Act, which kick-started the building of the first council estates in the UK, The Housing Podcast team examines the state of council housebuilding today. We also interview Lord Gary Porter, chair of the Local Government Association.
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9. How will Boris Johnson’s new government change housing policy?
This episode precedes last week’s general election. It was actually recorded back in July when Mr Johnson first moved in to Number 10. Many of the housing issues discussed by the team, including looking at the extent to which the PM will shift the housing policy dial back towards homeownership, will still be relevant.
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8. Will Brexit stop us building affordable homes?
As parliament became gridlocked over Brexit in March, The Housing Podcast team looks at how the development of new affordable homes could be affected.
This episode features interviews with Jasmine Whitbread, chief executive of London First, Rebecca Larkin, senior economist at the Construction Products Association, and Nicholas Harris, chief executive of Stonewater.
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7. How politicians let Grenfell happen
An audio long read of our investigation into the missed chances to prevent Grenfell by acting on the warnings of the Lakanal House fire.
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6. England’s worst housing crisis
The Housing Podcast speaks to Rokhsana Fiaz, the new mayor of east London borough Newham, and charity The Magpie Project about the borough’s chronic homelessness crisis.
Donate to The Magpie Project here: www.justgiving.com/crowdfunding/themagpieproject
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5. What’s going on with the Right to Buy extension to housing associations?
After faltering progress, a pilot of the Voluntary Right to Buy is finally underway in the Midlands. The Housing Podcast catches up on how it is going, with the help of Steve Hilditch and Sue Shirt.
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4. Are for-profit housing associations the future of social housing?
Luke Barratt speaks to David Orr, former chief executive of the National Housing Federation, and Joe Beswick, head of UK housing at the New Economics Foundation, to discuss the growth of for-profit registered providers. Are they good for the sector? And what are the different kinds of for-profits? News editor Jack Simpson also explains some of his recent stories about for-profits.
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3. What’s the deal with shared ownership?
Thousands of people purchase through shared ownership every year. For some, it is a great way of helping families with modest incomes onto the housing ladder, but it has also been subject to strong criticisms.
In this episode of The Housing Podcast, we weigh up the pros and cons, helped by Amy Nettleton of Aster Group and solicitor Giles Peaker.
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2. Homes (Fitness for Human Habitation) – is the new law a turning point?
The Homes (Fitness for Human Habitation) Act is on the statute book. But what is it for? What does it do? And will it work? Karen Buck MP, who guided the bill through parliament, along with housing lawyers Giles Peaker and Justin Bates – who wrote it – sit down with The Housing Podcast to answer all this and more.
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1. Why are private investment funds buying up social housing?
Millions of pounds of private finance have been poured into buying the homes of some of the most vulnerable adults in the UK over the past three years.
But with the regulator sounding the alarm about some of the housing associations managing these properties, The Housing Podcast asks what is really going on? Hear from finance reporter Luke Barratt about his work covering this story, and Paul Bridge, chief executive of Civitas, one of the funds investing in these properties, answering questions about some of the concern.
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