I'm getting the figures from the link below, using the midrange estimate.

The entire thrust of the interview is how the BSR might fix its structural issues and become an effective regulator doing a good job.

www.gov.uk/government/p...

There are more than 4,000 buildings in the 11m to 18m basket which need expensive remediation. The question should be how to get the BSR timescales down (which Roe addresses at length) not saying "ooh, isn't regulation silly, why do we need it" in midst of a pretty unprecedented build quality crisis

And while the BSR process has not worked brilliantly, that change was always going to be some version of "sort out design and compliance before you start building". Which was always going to result in delay, but may moves us forward to a point where we don't botch more than half the blocks we build

Given the scale of failure in terms of badly built blocks in the 2000s and 2010s, surely some change was needed though? Leaving aside the human cost, the bill for fixing them is £16.6bn, and the economic consequences have been vast (from flat sales falling through, diverted funds from new build etc)

Full interview in IH here: www.insidehousing.co.uk/insight/the-...

Thank you John, means a lot

Thanks for sharing Duncan, much appreciated!

Full episode here: open.spotify.com/episode/0cKb...

We were discussing my book, Homesick, which is out now here: uk.bookshop.org/p/books/home...

In other words: maybe if we'd not cut the funding to build new social housing, we wouldn't now be handing billions to some of the country's worst private landlords to house the homeless families who can't get a social home