002: The Housing Crisis

In this episode, we discuss Britain’s housing crisis. We cover the economic factors at play, affordability, supply, and demand imbalances, rising rents, a lack of social housing and disrepair across all tenures. Host Alison Dunn is joined by Mark Henderson, Chief Executive of Home Group, Satty Rai, Member Engagement Manager at Northern Housing Consortium and Andrew Burnip, Director of Skylight Services at Crisis Mark Henderson is Chief Executive of Home Group, with over 120,000 customers across 55,000 properties in England and Scotland. Home Group is also one of the largest housing developers in the UK. Mark is currently a Board Member for Homes England and a trustee of Whiteley Homes Trust. He was also a former Board Member of the National Housing Federation and former Chair of Homes for the North. Satty Rai is the Member Engagement Manager at Northern Housing Consortium. She delivers a suite of member engagement services to housing associations and local authorities across the three northern government regions, sharing best practice across housing policy areas and celebrating the great work of the sector. Satty works closely with and developing key relationships across key Government departments, other public, private and voluntary sector partners, to amplify the voice of housing in the North. Andrew Burnip has worked in homelessness for over 29 years. In June 2015, Andrew joined Crisis, the national homelessness charity, as Director of Skylight Services in Newcastle transforming the building and the service locally and nationally. Andrew is currently the Interim Director of Operations at Crisis, covering Scotland, North & Central England. Connect: Alison DunnLinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/alisondunncag/ Mark HendersonWebsite: https://www.homegroup.org.uk/find-a-homeEmail: [email protected] Satty RaiWebsite: https://www.northern-consortium.org.uk/Twitter: @NHCLinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/satty-rosie-rai-38107973/ Andrew BurnipWebsite: https://www.crisis.org.uk/Email: [email protected] This podcast was produced by Moja. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.