The Housing Diversity Network Podcast

We had the privilege to meet up with Roland Butcher at our London Networking. Having travelled the world and having worked in different environments, Roland has been lucky enough to learn how to deal and accept others that come from different backgrounds to his own as well as break down stigmas that inhibit others from being able to express themselves in their field of choice.

In this episode, we meet up with Fizza Qureshi to discuss rehousing refugee and migrants especially with everything happening in Ukraine and with the news that came out on the day of this recording about the governments 'Rwanda asylum seeker plan'.

In this episode, we meet up with Khalid Mair in London to discuss how to build a inclusive and anti-racist organisation, and the steps we are taking to get there and what we are still missing.

This episode we met up with one of the most out spoken social housing activist and who's voice has grown in only a year to the highest offices in the country Kwajo Tweneboa, on how social housing can do better and what are some solutions.

This episode we meet up with Ruth Young, head of leadership solutions for Adecco Housing to discuss how to create opportunities for everyone and how that can start from the top from people in leadership roles.

We met up with HDN's good friend Shruti Bhargava to discuss the acronyms 'BAME and BME' if they should still be used in 2022, and the controversies behind the acronyms.

We meet up with the Secretary-General of the Muslim Council of Britain, Zara Mohammed during her visit to Batley, to discuss how to counter Islamophobia and what are the main issues we face going forward.

We speak to Abdul Ravat on a follow-up from our livestream we did back in November 2021 when serious alligation from Azeem Rafiq were brought up. How can we learn from this and prevent this from happening again, especially in the housing sector.