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Vicky Spratt

@vickyspratt.bsky.social
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Housing & Society Correspondent at The i Paper Author of TENANTS (2022) & We Were Prommised The Moon (2026) Subscribe to my newsletter - The State We're In, here: inews.co.uk/opinion/taxes-better-pu…

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Ben Chu @benchu.bsky.social · 19/11/2025
Many thanks to @vickyspratt.bsky.social for this lovely recommendation of my series "The Tax Conundrum" on BBC Sounds... inews.co.uk/opinion/22k-...
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Josh Ryan-Collins @jryancollins.bsky.social · 16/12/2025
Hear my diagnosis of the drivers of the UK housing crisis on this excellent new BBC Radio 4 program led by @vickyspratt.bsky.social www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...
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Housing Britain - The Housing Ladder - BBC Sounds
Vicky Spratt explores how the UK's housing crisis unfolded and asks if we can fix it.
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UCL Institute for Innovation and Public Purpose @iipp-ucl.bsky.social · 17/12/2025
🏠 How and why has housing become unaffordable for so many? IIPP Professor @jryancollins.bsky.social spoke with @vickyspratt.bsky.social on BBC Radio 4's 'Housing Britain' Series, elaborating on the drivers of the UK housing crisis. 🎧 Listen to the episode here: buff.ly/ECcGroO
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Kathie Pollard @kplanning.bsky.social · 27/12/2025
Excellent series (and reference to the housing theory of everything) @vickyspratt.bsky.social www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/serie...
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BBC Sounds - Housing Britain - Available Episodes
Listen to the latest episodes of Housing Britain on BBC Sounds.
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End Our Cladding Scandal @eocs-official.bsky.social · 01/01/2026
"After watching what unfolded after Grenfell, with young people caught in starter homes they can’t sell while facing huge bills, why would anyone in their right mind want to buy a flat in a block?" ✍️ @vickyspratt.bsky.social inews.co.uk/opinion/ghos...
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Ghost flats are becoming Britain’s new housing crisis
Thousands of new flats are sitting empty and losing value – why do more luxury towers keep appearing?
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Vicky Spratt @vickyspratt.bsky.social · 19/11/2025
My @theipaper.com newsletter has relaunched It's now called: The State We're In This week, I look at graduate wages in relation to house prices and ask whether it's still worth going to university? inews.co.uk/opinion/22k-...
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How the £22k minimum wage caught up with graduate jobs
Young adults encouraged to go to university and get into debt to aid their economic advancement are finding that higher education was not a gilded doorway to a lucrative career - but a financial burde...
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Municipal Dreams @municipaldreams.bsky.social · 12/11/2025
There's no-one I trust more on contemporary housing policy than @peteapps.bsky.social. This is an important read: 'The new social housing programme looks more and more like a genuine step forward'. open.substack.com/pub/peteapps...
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The new social housing programme looks more and more like a genuine step forwards
New government funding will support the development of tens of thousands of socially rented homes a year. Plus, the descent of Assent
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Vicky Spratt @vickyspratt.bsky.social · 13/11/2025
Council tax is...failing councils! My analysis @theipaper.com inews.co.uk/opinion/shou...
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Should council tax be abolished? A renter, estate agent and politics expert respond
The tax is seen as outdated and unfair
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Vicky Spratt @vickyspratt.bsky.social · 13/11/2025
My weekly newsletter @theipaper.com is called The State We're In... In the latest edition, I look at why somebody has to pay more tax and it's probably you (a median earner)... inews.co.uk/opinion/taxe...
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Want better public services? It's time to accept taxes may need to rise
Rachel Reeves is expected to break Labour's key manifesto promise and increase income tax
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Stephen Bush @stephenkb.bsky.social · 13/11/2025
We have chaos and Ed Miliband, they're just not evenly distributed.
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