Podcasts New Economics Podcast: How we can all have a home Ayeisha Thomas-Smith is joined by Vicky Spratt and Kieran Yates By Ayeisha Thomas-Smith 07 April 2023 You can’t paint your walls, you can’t have a pet, you can’t guarantee you’ll have somewhere to live in six months time. Millions of us are paying sky-high rents but struggling to make a home in a housing system where safety and security takes second place to landlords’ profits. Some private tenants face mould and broken boilers but daren’t complain. According to Shelter, complaining to
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New Economics Podcast: How we can all have a home
Ayeisha Thomas-Smith is joined by Vicky Spratt and Kieran Yates
07 April 2023
You can’t paint your walls, you can’t have a pet, you can’t guarantee you’ll have somewhere to live in six months time. Millions of us are paying sky-high rents but struggling to make a home in a housing system where safety and security takes second place to landlords’ profits.
Some private tenants face mould and broken boilers but daren’t complain. According to Shelter, complaining to your landlord about conditions in your home more than doubles your chance of being evicted.
How did private renting become so prevalent? Why are the rights of tenants so weak? And what does this mean for our ability to make a home?
Ayeisha is joined by Vicky Spratt, housing correspondent at the i and author of Tenants, and Kieran Yates, journalist and author of the upcoming All the houses I’ve ever lived in.
Further reading:
- Grab a copy of Vicky’s book Tenants
- Kieran’s book All the houses I’ve ever lived in is out on the 27 April
- Kojo Koram’s book Uncommon wealth is available here
- Find out more about about the Joseph Rowntree Foundation’s work on home-owners and poverty
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Topics Housing & land Inequality