The government's announcement this week that it will drop plans to change the way supported housing is funded brings to a close a near three year cycle of lobbying against these proposals.

This week, the Housing Podcast looks back at this story, which began with a throwaway line in George Osborne's Autumn Statement in 2015.

In this week’s episode of The Housing Podcast we speak 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.

Two women a week are killed by their partners in the UK. The Housing Podcast speaks to Suzanne Jacob of domestic abuse charity Safe Lives about what social landlords can do to help survivors, as well as the outgoing Chartered Institute of Housing president Alison Inman about her awareness campaign ‘Make a Stand’.

The Housing Podcast team is joined by Tom Murtha to discuss the controversial Dispatches documentary on housing associations titled Getting Rich From the Housing Crisis.

Tom appeared on the programme, but felt it misrepresented his views. The team also hears views from Brian Robson of the Joseph Rowntree Foundation and Curo boss Victor da Cunha about the documentary. Music by Broke for Free.

The Housing Podcast team get together to rank all of the housing ministers of the modern Tory era, from Shapps to Raab. There's a lot of them.

The Housing Podcast team is joined by David Smith from the Residential Landlords' Association (RLA) and Jacob Mukherjee from Generation Rent to debate the government's three year tenancies proposal.

Music by Broke for Free.

The Housing Podcast team report from the Housing 2018 conference in Manchester, in a special episode featuring an interview with housing minister Dominic Raab.

Rob Beiley, a partner at Trowers and Hamlins, and Maurice Frankel from the Campaign for Freedom of Information debate whether the Freedom of Information Act should be extended to cover housing associations. Edited by Luke Barratt.

A year on from the devastating Grenfell Tower fire, the Inside Housing team talks through the updated asks from its "Never Again" fire safety campaign, featuring an interview with Debbie Larner of the Chartered Institute of Housing. We also discuss the findings of the most comprehensive research to date into Fire Risk Assessments. Edited by Luke Barratt

The long-awaited opening of the fact-finding stage of the Grenfell Tower Inquiry took place this week.

Here, Inside Housing reporters Nathaniel Barker and Luke Barratt recap some of the biggest stories from the opening statements of survivors groups, the council, the fire brigade and others.