{"version":"1.0","type":"rich","provider_name":"Acast","provider_url":"https://acast.com","height":250,"width":700,"html":"<iframe src=\"https://embed.acast.com/$/6b2fc9ba-b9b7-4b7a-b980-e0024facd926/6324abddbf567700120bb78a?\" frameBorder=\"0\" width=\"700\" height=\"250\"></iframe>","title":"Inside Britain’s housing crisis","thumbnail_width":200,"thumbnail_height":200,"thumbnail_url":"https://open-images.acast.com/shows/61b9f75c1a8cbe0c083cee79/show-cover.jpg?height=200","description":"<p>The UK has a housing crisis: in the past decade, decent and stable living arrangements have become an impossible dream for many.</p><p><br></p><p>The&nbsp;<em>New Statesman</em>’s senior associate editor Rachel Cunliffe speaks to Hashi Mohamed, author of&nbsp;<em>A Home of One’s Own</em>, which draws on his own history of housing insecurity and his professional career as a planning barrister, about how we came to this point and what can be done.</p><p><br></p><p>They discuss the segregating and alienating effects of housing insecurity, why successive governments have failed to act on this crisis, and how they can be persuaded that it’s a priority.</p><p><br></p><p>Podcast listeners can get a subscription to the New Statesman for just £1 per week, for 12 weeks. Visit www.newstatesman.com/podcastoffer</p>","author_name":"The New Statesman"}