7. The UK Housing Crisis

This long overdue episode is laser-focused on the housing crisis in the UK. Lock in. It makes for shocking listening.

TTWP talks to three people from unique perspectives:  

Time stamp: 1'19 - 15'36

1. Giles Grover is someone who, along with hundreds of thousands of other people in Britain, is stuck living in a high-rise block covered in dangerous, life-threatening cladding, and who's being asked to stump up thousands of pounds to pay for remedial works;  

Time stamp: 15'36 - 31:14

2. Jasmine Basran is a policy manger at the national homelessness charity, Crisis  

Time stamp: 31:14  - 59'40

3. Kwajo Tweneboa who's a well-known campaigner in social housing. 

For more on these issues, here are the show notes

END CLADDING SCANDAL:

https://endourcladdingscandal.org/

https://todaysconveyancer.co.uk/organisations-demand-labour-party-make-industry-pay-cladding-crisis/

HOMELESSNESS:

https://www.crisis.org.uk/about-us/

https://www.amnesty.org.uk/blogs/campaigns-blog/can-we-expect-next-government-make-homelessness-history?utm_source=twitter&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=awareness_education&utm_content=news

£10bn to end homelessness - 2018 polan by Crisis: https://www.crisis.org.uk/ending-homelessness/homelessness-knowledge-hub/international-plans-to-end-homelessness/everybody-in-how-to-end-homelessness-in-great-britain-2018/ 

https://www.bigissue.com/news/housing/criminal-justice-bill-rough-sleepers-homeless-people-smell/

https://www.crisis.org.uk/about-us/media-centre/crisis-responds-to-the-conservative-manifesto-1/

https://www.crisis.org.uk/about-us/media-centre/crisis-responds-to-the-labour-party-manifesto/#:~:text=It%20includes%20a%20central%20pledge,social%20housing%20in%20a%20generation.

KWAJO TWENEBOA

Channel 4 UNTOLD Documentary

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wVhFmTCp8ho&list=PLiC_gpE7y052N7fKqqI--hgoqi375K614&index=25

Follow Kwajo on X:

https://twitter.com/Kwajotweneboa?ref_src=twsrc%5Egoogle%7Ctwcamp%5Eserp%7Ctwgr%5Eauthor

Follow Kwajo on Instagram: 

https://www.instagram.com/kwajotweneboa/?hl=en

Kwajo's new book comes out this month - Our Country in Crisis: Britain's Housing Emergency and How We Rebuild

Pre order it here: https://geni.us/OurCountryInCrisis