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Faultlines: Why isn’t housing a bigger election issue?

Faultlines: Why isn’t housing a bigger election issue?

FromSky News Daily


Faultlines: Why isn’t housing a bigger election issue?

FromSky News Daily

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Length:
21 minutes
Released:
Mar 18, 2024
Format:
Podcast episode

Description

A new Sky News series 'Faultlines' covers in-depth and immersive reports exploring contemporary social challenges across the UK.     This episode asks 'is our housing market in crisis?', with not enough homes and expensive rentals forcing an increasing number of people into homelessness.   In 2021/22, just 7,528 new social homes were delivered. Nowhere near enough for the 1.1 million people on the waiting list and the government’s target of building 300,000 new homes a year. The seaside town Hastings is on the frontline of all that is wrong with the housing system, with evictions, social housing shortages and Airbnb among the issues behind the problem.   On this episode of the Sky News Daily, Tom Cheshire talks to our people and politics correspondent Nick Martin in Hastings, to uncover the scale of the problems, and hear from those at the heart of it. Producer: Alex Edden Assistant producer: Iona Brunker Editor: Paul Stanworth 
Released:
Mar 18, 2024
Format:
Podcast episode

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The Sky News Daily podcast with Niall Paterson brings you a deeper look at the big stories. We use Sky News correspondents for the best eyewitness reporting, original stories and expertise to make sense of the world.Published every weekday.