In our final episode of the season, we explore the UK housing crisis, its causes and potential solutions for the future. 

We are currently in a cost of living crisis with renting and renters’ rights particularly precarious in the UK. The number of people sleeping rough is higher than pre-pandemic and many are experiencing homelessness for the first time. A huge part of this problem is the housing market and how it operates. 

Join us for our final episode of the season, where host and Bartlett Dean Christoph Lindner speaks to two guests to talk about the housing system and potential alternatives: 

• Samir Jeraj, writer at the New Statesman, commissioning editor at Hyphen and co-author of the Rent Trap 
• Saffron Woodcraft, Principal Research Fellow at the Bartlett’s Institute for Global Prosperity 

For more information and to access the transcript, visit https://www.ucl.ac.uk/bartlett/building-better-bartlett-podcast

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In this episode we speak to two researchers about their work on the local and global protest movement in India, based on their project Transnational Infrastructures of Resistance: 

• Dr Ufaque Paiker, Ashoka University and PhD in Modern Indian History from the Jawaharlal Nehru University 
• Dr Raktim Ray, lecturer and joint program leader at The Development Planning Unit 

They share their research and expertise on the changing shape of modern protest movements and transnational solidarity, and how activism can cross communities and borders.  

For more information and to access the transcript visit https://www.ucl.ac.uk/bartlett/transcript-moving-protest-beyond-borders

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In this episode of Building Better, we spoke to two people within and outside of The Bartlett  about ‘queering space’: how we can build spaces that suit community needs and what queerness means in the context of design. 

Our guests were: 

• Xan Xacobo Goetzee-Barral, third year student on the new MSci Architecture programme and an Urban Design Tutor at The Bartlett School of Planning 
• Holly Buckle, London-based Artist and the LGBTIQ+ Outreach Lead at The Outside Project  

‘Queering space’ is a theme that we touched on in our first ever episode of Building Better, when we spoke to Lo Marshall about their research into LGBTQ+ nightlife. Through this discussion we continued that conversation by asking what makes a space safe for LGBTQ+ people and interrogating what it means to bring queerness into a space. 

For more information and to access the transcript, visit https://www.ucl.ac.uk/bartlett/building-better-bartlett-podcast

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