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Our episode recaps bring together the key conversations, lessons and takeaways from the People in Housing Podcast.

From the challenges people are facing to the experiences, ideas and approaches being shared across social housing, each recap gives you the key points from the conversation and something useful to take away.

2nd December Building Safety and Compliance — The Recruitment and Retention Challenge Karl Linder talks through why compliance recruitment goes wrong when it's treated as a place to redeploy people rather than a genuine specialism

17th September The Real Challenge of Decarbonising Social Housing Gemma Brooks explains why the sector may eventually need to cool homes rather than just heat them

11th July Lessons from a Former Housing Minister Eddie Hughes discusses why government departments don't talk to each other as much as people assume

25th June Why Building Safety Starts With People, Not Process Neil Yeomans talks through why he builds his teams around raw intelligence and professional pride rather than existing qualifications

28th May The Biggest Differences Between Public and Private Housing Having sat on both sides of the client-contractor relationship, Tony Clark reveals what surprised him after crossing over

31st March Why Housing Can't Find Skilled Tradespeople Carl Yale talks through what's actually driving the sector's supply chain and skills shortage

11th March Are Housing Mergers Good for Communities? Five years after Platform Housing Group's merger, Executive Director of Development Gareth Oakley talks through what changed

20th February Why Housing Leaders Need Stronger Networks Russell Thompson discusses why housing associations still struggle to share knowledge across the sector

17th January What Really Happens After a Housing Merger? What actually changes when two large landlords combine?

10th December Can Housing Really Reach Net Zero? This episode brought four innovators from across the retrofit supply chain into one conversation.

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