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The Housing Podcast is a production of Inside Housing magazine, the UK’s leading social and affordable housing publication. Listen to find out more about the key issues in housing today, with input f... more
FAQs about The Housing Podcast:How many episodes does The Housing Podcast have?The podcast currently has 89 episodes available.
June 02, 2018The tale of the Right to Buy extensionInside Housing's editor-in-chief Emma Maier joins the Housing Podcast team to look back at the rise and partial fall of plans to extend Right to Buy discounts to 1.3m housing association tenants, first announced by David Cameron in 2015....more43minPlay
May 25, 2018The Victims of GrenfellThe Grenfell Inquiry opens with tributes from family members to the victims of the fire. Sophie Barnes reports from the hearings. Music by Broke for Free...more24minPlay
May 18, 2018The Hackitt Review of building regulationsThis week, Dame Judith Hackitt released the findings of her building regulations review, commissioned by the government in the wake of the Grenfell Tower fire last June. Featuring an interview with Dame Judith, the team takes a look at what was in the report - and why some people were less than impressed. Edited by Nathaniel Barker....more31minPlay
May 11, 2018Are we too hard on private landlords?We talk to David Smith from the Residential Landlords Association about the private rented sector, and whether it's been forced to bite off more than it can chew as it takes on many residents who would have previously lived in social housing. Edited by Luke Barratt....more34minPlay
May 04, 2018Peabody's new approach to rentsThe Housing Podcast welcomes Brendan Sarsfield, chief executive of major housing association Peabody, to chat about their decision to stop charging affordable rents, which can be up to 80% of market rent. Edited by Luke Barratt...more20minPlay
April 27, 2018A dispatch from Wales' largest housing conferenceThis week’s episode of The Housing Podcast comes to you from CIH Cymru’s annual conference in Cardiff. It features interviews with Matt Dicks, director of CIH Cymru, and Clare Budden, newly appointed chief executive of Pennaf. Edited by Luke Barratt....more22minPlay
April 20, 2018What's Labour's plan for housing?The Inside Housing news team discuss the new policies in Labour's social housing Green Paper. We also hear from Jeremy Corbyn on his vision of the role of housing associations in solving the crisis....more31minPlay
April 13, 2018Is immigration the cause of the housing crisis?The Housing Podcast team is joined by economist Jonathan Portes, the former chief economist at the Cabinet Office, to discuss housing minister Dominic Raab's claim that immigration has pushed up house prices. The episode also features an interview with senior staff at Arhag, a specialist housing association which supports new migrants. Edited by Luke Barratt....more34minPlay
April 06, 2018Right to Buy or Wrong to Buy?London Labour assembly member Tom Copley takes on Conservative councillor John Moss to debate one of housing's most divisive policies: the Right to Buy....more33minPlay
March 29, 2018Building regulations: the paper trailThis week, Inside Housing presents: The Paper Trail. We go over building regulation changes covering decades to see how so many tower blocks around the country ended up with dangerous cladding.We ask: was the cladding on Grenfell Tower legal? How did the regulations change to allow combustible materials? And what warnings were missed along the way?Edited by Luke Barratt....more36minPlay
FAQs about The Housing Podcast:How many episodes does The Housing Podcast have?The podcast currently has 89 episodes available.