Podcasts about Home Truths

Hundreds of thousands of Canadians exist on the edge. Renters fear eviction, homeowners feel trapped, and both are vulnerable to becoming homeless with a single stroke of misfortune. Unaffordable housing in Canada is tearing communities apart as long-time residents seek affordable housing elsewhere and businesses shutter because they cannot find staff who can afford to live nearby. For two generations, Canadians have watched affordable housing vanish while other nations have been tackling the problem. In Home Truths: Fixing Canada's Housing Crisis (On Point Press, 2024), housing expert Carolyn Whitzman reviews the decades of policy that have gotten us into this mess and shows how all levels of government can work together to provide affordable housing where it is needed. Her compelling arguments for policy solutions are backed by ideas from researchers, planners, politicians, developers, and housing advocates at home and abroad. Home Truths addresses Canada's crisis from all sides, including exploring what adequate housing looks like, providing ideas on how to resolve homelessness, explaining why nonmarket housing is crucial for Canada, and showing how and why to tackle ever-growing wealth disparities between renters and those who own. From policymakers, planners, developers, and observers needing to understand Canada's housing struggles through to Canadians seeking ideas for a new way forward, Home Truths is a critical read for a nation on edge. Carolyn Whitzman is a leading housing and senior policy researcher. She has authored, coauthored, or lead-edited six previous books, the most recent being Clara at the Door with a Revolver. She has undertaken research for the Office of the Federal Housing Advocate, the Canada Mortgage and Housing Corporation, the Alliance to End Homelessness Ottawa, and many other organizations. Alex Hallbom is a Registered Professional Planner in British Columbia, Canada. He sits on the editorial board of Plan Canada, the professional publication for planners in Canada, and publishes periodically in Plan Canada and Planning West. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/new-books-network

Hundreds of thousands of Canadians exist on the edge. Renters fear eviction, homeowners feel trapped, and both are vulnerable to becoming homeless with a single stroke of misfortune. Unaffordable housing in Canada is tearing communities apart as long-time residents seek affordable housing elsewhere and businesses shutter because they cannot find staff who can afford to live nearby. For two generations, Canadians have watched affordable housing vanish while other nations have been tackling the problem. In Home Truths: Fixing Canada's Housing Crisis (On Point Press, 2024), housing expert Carolyn Whitzman reviews the decades of policy that have gotten us into this mess and shows how all levels of government can work together to provide affordable housing where it is needed. Her compelling arguments for policy solutions are backed by ideas from researchers, planners, politicians, developers, and housing advocates at home and abroad. Home Truths addresses Canada's crisis from all sides, including exploring what adequate housing looks like, providing ideas on how to resolve homelessness, explaining why nonmarket housing is crucial for Canada, and showing how and why to tackle ever-growing wealth disparities between renters and those who own. From policymakers, planners, developers, and observers needing to understand Canada's housing struggles through to Canadians seeking ideas for a new way forward, Home Truths is a critical read for a nation on edge. Carolyn Whitzman is a leading housing and senior policy researcher. She has authored, coauthored, or lead-edited six previous books, the most recent being Clara at the Door with a Revolver. She has undertaken research for the Office of the Federal Housing Advocate, the Canada Mortgage and Housing Corporation, the Alliance to End Homelessness Ottawa, and many other organizations. Alex Hallbom is a Registered Professional Planner in British Columbia, Canada. He sits on the editorial board of Plan Canada, the professional publication for planners in Canada, and publishes periodically in Plan Canada and Planning West. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/public-policy

Hundreds of thousands of Canadians exist on the edge. Renters fear eviction, homeowners feel trapped, and both are vulnerable to becoming homeless with a single stroke of misfortune. Unaffordable housing in Canada is tearing communities apart as long-time residents seek affordable housing elsewhere and businesses shutter because they cannot find staff who can afford to live nearby. For two generations, Canadians have watched affordable housing vanish while other nations have been tackling the problem. In Home Truths: Fixing Canada's Housing Crisis (On Point Press, 2024), housing expert Carolyn Whitzman reviews the decades of policy that have gotten us into this mess and shows how all levels of government can work together to provide affordable housing where it is needed. Her compelling arguments for policy solutions are backed by ideas from researchers, planners, politicians, developers, and housing advocates at home and abroad. Home Truths addresses Canada's crisis from all sides, including exploring what adequate housing looks like, providing ideas on how to resolve homelessness, explaining why nonmarket housing is crucial for Canada, and showing how and why to tackle ever-growing wealth disparities between renters and those who own. From policymakers, planners, developers, and observers needing to understand Canada's housing struggles through to Canadians seeking ideas for a new way forward, Home Truths is a critical read for a nation on edge. Carolyn Whitzman is a leading housing and senior policy researcher. She has authored, coauthored, or lead-edited six previous books, the most recent being Clara at the Door with a Revolver. She has undertaken research for the Office of the Federal Housing Advocate, the Canada Mortgage and Housing Corporation, the Alliance to End Homelessness Ottawa, and many other organizations. Alex Hallbom is a Registered Professional Planner in British Columbia, Canada. He sits on the editorial board of Plan Canada, the professional publication for planners in Canada, and publishes periodically in Plan Canada and Planning West. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/economics

Hundreds of thousands of Canadians exist on the edge. Renters fear eviction, homeowners feel trapped, and both are vulnerable to becoming homeless with a single stroke of misfortune. Unaffordable housing in Canada is tearing communities apart as long-time residents seek affordable housing elsewhere and businesses shutter because they cannot find staff who can afford to live nearby. For two generations, Canadians have watched affordable housing vanish while other nations have been tackling the problem. In Home Truths: Fixing Canada's Housing Crisis (On Point Press, 2024), housing expert Carolyn Whitzman reviews the decades of policy that have gotten us into this mess and shows how all levels of government can work together to provide affordable housing where it is needed. Her compelling arguments for policy solutions are backed by ideas from researchers, planners, politicians, developers, and housing advocates at home and abroad. Home Truths addresses Canada's crisis from all sides, including exploring what adequate housing looks like, providing ideas on how to resolve homelessness, explaining why nonmarket housing is crucial for Canada, and showing how and why to tackle ever-growing wealth disparities between renters and those who own. From policymakers, planners, developers, and observers needing to understand Canada's housing struggles through to Canadians seeking ideas for a new way forward, Home Truths is a critical read for a nation on edge. Carolyn Whitzman is a leading housing and senior policy researcher. She has authored, coauthored, or lead-edited six previous books, the most recent being Clara at the Door with a Revolver. She has undertaken research for the Office of the Federal Housing Advocate, the Canada Mortgage and Housing Corporation, the Alliance to End Homelessness Ottawa, and many other organizations. Alex Hallbom is a Registered Professional Planner in British Columbia, Canada. He sits on the editorial board of Plan Canada, the professional publication for planners in Canada, and publishes periodically in Plan Canada and Planning West. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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Nate and Carolyn Whitzman talk about her recent book Home Truths, Canada's housing needs, and different historical and international approaches that should inform how we build market, non-market, and supportive housing. Carolyn is a housing and social policy researcher, an expert advisor to UBC's Housing Assessment Resource Tools, and a senior housing researcher at U of T's School of Cities. She is also the author of Home Truths, Fixing Canada's Housing Crisis.How many homes do we need to build? How should we go about building them? And who should we be serving?Chapters:00:00 Introduction to Housing Crisis in Canada01:52 Understanding Housing Needs Assessments05:14 Historical Context of Housing in Canada09:09 Long-Term Solutions for Housing16:10 Market vs. Non-Market Housing22:24 Addressing NIMBYism and Zoning Reform27:39 International Examples of Non-Market Housing34:53 Financing Non-Market Housing39:56 Protecting Renters and Tenant Rights41:21 Addressing Homelessness with Compassion46:39 Conclusion and Future DirectionsTranscript:Nate:Welcome to Uncommons. I'm Nate Erskine-Smith. For those of you who are tuning in more recently, I'm the Member of Parliament for Beaches-East York. And this Uncommons podcast is a series of interviews with experts in their respective fields with colleagues of mine in parliament really focused on Canadian politics and policy in relation to that politics.And today I'm joined by Carolyn Whitzman. She is an expert in housing policy, one of the most important issues at all levels of government that need to be addressed in a comprehensive, serious way. You'll hear all politicians sort of trip over themselves with different housing plans.And the question for Carolyn is, how many homes do we need to build? How should we go about building them? And who should we be serving? And how are we going to get out of this housing crisis that this country faces and that all regions face in their own respective ways?Now, Carolyn is a housing and social policy researcher. She's an expert advisor to UBC's housing assessment resource tools. She's a senior housing researcher at U of T's School of Cities. And most importantly, having just read her book, she is the author of Home Truths, Fixing Canada's Housing Crisis.Nate:Carolyn, thanks for joining me.Caroyln:Great to join you, Nate.Nate:So you came highly recommended to me by virtue of Mark Richardson, who's a constituent and an advocate on housing and someone I, you know, anything he says on housing is to be believed.And he's, you know, he highly recommended your book, Home Truths, but he also suggested you as a podcast guest. So I really, really appreciate the time. And much of your work, you know, your main work, other than being an expert in all things housing, but a core expertise that you have is really on the needs assessment in terms of what the housing market in Canada needs in particular in different regions. And there are different needs.There are market needs, there are non-market needs, there's deeply affordable needs for people who are experiencing homelessness.And so how would you break down, you know, if you've got Sean Fraser coming to you and saying, what are the needs assessments? How would you break down the needs assessments on housing in this country?Caroyln:Well, funny you should say that because Sean's office and housing and infrastructure has come to me. So I did some work with a project called the Housing Assessment Resource Tools Project based at UBC that was funded by the CMHC that did what the CMHC used to do and unfortunately no longer does, which is look at housing need by income categories.Canada has been doing that since 1944 during World War II when a report by a relatively conservative economist named Curtis said that for low-income people, probably some form of public housing was going to be necessary to meet their needs.For middle-income people, there needed to be a lot more purpose-built rental housing, he said that in 1944. And he also said in 1944 that there needed to be some way to control rent increases and he suggested cooperative housing. And then for higher-income people, definitely scale up while located home ownership.To some extent the Canadian government listened. Between 1944 and 1960, there were about a million homes enabled through government land financing design replication that were for moderate-income starter households.In those days it was mostly one-earner households, like a man at home and a woman, sorry, a woman at home and a man at work. And the homes were two to three bedrooms between $7,000 and $8,000. So pretty remarkably that's like $80,000 to $90,000 in today's terms.Nate:That would be nice.Carolyn:Yeah, wouldn't it be nice? Once they were sold, they lost our affordability.So since then, and certainly in the 1970s and 1980s when the federal government was building, well again enabling, about one in five homes to be built by public housing, cooperative housing, other non-profit housing, that housing was affordable to what they called low- and moderate-income households, so the lowest two quintiles of household income. Home ownership was easily affordable to moderate in most places and middle-income households.So there's always been some housing needs, but there wasn't widespread homelessness. There wasn't the kinds of craziness that you see today where new rental housing isn't affordable to middle-income earners, where new homeowners are limited to the highest quintile, like the highest 20% of population.So we simply use the same kinds of categories, also the kinds of categories that are used in the U.S. and other countries. Low income, moderate income, median income, and then higher income.Unfortunately with provincial social assistance rates being what they are, we have to add a very low income, which is like 20% of median income, and really isn't enough to afford a room let alone an apartment. But yeah, that's the way we look at housing need.Nate:But then, so let's be maybe, that's at a high level for how we look, how we analyze it,and then when we look at the Canadian context today, so you talk about the Curtis Reportpost-war and on my reading of, I found your historical examples very interesting, internationalexamples interesting too, which we'll get to, but this was one of the most interestingones because here you have the Curtis Report proposing annual targets that you say is effectively the equivalent of 4 million homes over 10 years. But then they break this down into a particular categories.Then you've got, you know, two years ago, two and a bit of years ago, you had CMHC issued a report to say we effectively need 5.8 million homes by 2030. So 2.3 million in business as usual. And then you've got this 3.5 million additional homes required. And that's impossible for us to achieve based upon the current trajectory at all levels of government, frankly, but especially at the provincial level.And so when you look at the needs assessment today, so Curtis Report has 4 million over10 years, what do we need today? Is CMHC right?It's 5.8 million, although they don't break it down into these different categories, or should we be more specific to say, as you do, it's 200,000 new or renovated deeply affordable supportive homes over 10 years, and then you've got different categories for market and non-market.Carolyn:Well, I think it's important to prioritize people whose lives are literally being shortened because of lack of housing. So I think that ending homelessness should be a priority. And there's no doubt that we can't end homelessness without a new generation of low-cost housing.So I wouldn't disagree that we need 6,000 new homes. I did a report last year for the Office of the Federal Housing Advocate that argued that we need 3 million new and acquired homes for low-income people alone at rents of about $1,000 a month or less, certainly less if you're on social assistance.So the deed is pretty large. We have to recognize the fact that it's taken 30 to 50 years of inaction, particularly federal inaction, but also the Fed's downloaded to provinces, and as you say, provinces have done an extremely poor job to get there.And I think that what we see from countries that work, like France and Finland, Austria, is that they think in terms of like 30-year infrastructure categories, just like any other infrastructure. If we were to have a really viable public transit system, we'd need to start thinking in terms of what are we going to do over the next 30 years.Similarly, I think we need to look at a kind of 30-year time span when it comes to housing, and I think we need to look once again at that rule of thirds, which is a rule that's used in a lot of, in Germany and again in France and Finland, Denmark, about a third of it needs to be pretty deeply affordable low-income housing, about a third of it needs to be moderate-income rental, but with renter rights to ensure that the rents don't go up precipitously, and about a third of it needs to be for home ownership.Nate:You mentioned a 30-year window a few times there, and it strikes me that we need more honesty in our politics in that there's no quick solution to most of these challenges. That it's, you know, in your telling of the story, which I think is exactly right, this is decades in the making, and it will be decades in undoing this challenge and in addressing this as fulsome as we should.Now, that's not to say, you're right, we should prioritize people whose lives are being shortened by a lack of housing. There's some things we can do immediately to get more rapid housing built and really drive at that in a shorter window of time.But when you look at non-market housing, when you look at the market housing we need to build, no politician should stand at the microphone and say, we're going to build the homes we need without really overhauling how we do things and understanding that these homes are not going to get built tomorrow, that this is putting down track, policy track, to make sure homes get built in the next five years, in the next 10 years and beyond.Carolyn:Absolutely. And I think it's really important to start off with some aspirational goals. Like, forinstance, it was 1987 when Finland said, we're going to end homelessness, and this is how we're going to do it. France in 2000 said 20% of all housing should be non-market, in other words, public cooperative, non-profit.And in both Finland and France, there's been federal government changes as well as changes at the municipal level, etc. And those goals have remained the same through right wing and left wing governments.It does worry me, Nate, when politicians, I won't name any names, use sort of three word slogans, and that's going to somehow change things in the term of the government.Nate:I will will homes into existence by rhyming.Carolyn:So, you know, it takes building up systems, including good information systems to monitor and track how well we're doing and course correct. And that's something kind of basic that's been missing from federal policy as well.There's one report that says there's 655,000 non-market homes. Another report two years later says that there's 980,000 non-market homes and those weren't built in two years. So, you know, what is our current housing stock? How are our policies working to create certain kinds of housing, housing for people with disabilities or housing for seniors?Student housing need wasn't even included in the last few censuses. So, we don't really know how many students need housing at what cost and where. These are all examples of things that would be in a real national housing strategy.Nate:That seems to me like the basics, right? Like you measure why I want to start theconversation with a needs assessment, because if you don't start with that, then you're not working in a serious direction to any end goal.But I was also struck by your book just and you mentioned a couple of international examples and I'll say again, I want to get there, but I want to start the historical examples because part of us we live in this Overton window and we've had the federal government, not this federal government, but previous federal governments walk away from their responsibilities on housing.As you say, the story is a story of downloading responsibilities. There's been some uploading of responsibilities back through the last two national housing strategies as far as it goes, but we could talk about whether there ought to be more of that even and I think there probably should be more fiscal firepower when I look at the international examples and what's spent in France and Germany and other countries.But I was also struck by the historical ability to build in this country. And this is one thing that jumped out, but I'd also be curious what when you were writing this book, like what really jumped out is you as, so we're building fewer homes now than we were in the mid 1970s when the population was half what it is now. I found that absolutely shocking.I also found it shocking if new home construction had stayed at 1970s levels, we'd have an additional 6 to 7 million homes, meaning we'd be where we should be.Carolyn:Yeah, yeah. So what happened? And I think a couple of things happened. One is, and this happened in a couple of countries. It happened in Sweden too.Sweden said, we'll build a million homes in a country of 8 million, which is pretty impressive. And they did. And then they had a slight surplus of homes. They had some vacancies.And instead of going, yay, vacancies, tenants have a choice. They went, oh my God, vacancies,what are we doing? There was also a change of government, of course. So they course corrected.Part of it is that a good housing system includes about 4 to 8% vacancies, just because people move,there's vacancies in between people moving. You want people to have a choice. We know that vacancies help bring rents down in sort of...Nate:And standards up, right?Carolyn:And standards up using classic supply and demand. So we want to see some vacancies. We don't want to have a zero vacancy system. That's number one.Number two is just this increasing belief in the late 1970s and early 1980s. And it came from both the right and the left to distrust government.I think Robert Moses, the chief planner of New York City for decades has a lot to answer for because people started looking at this big, heavy-handed planning and said, we don't want anything of it.And so activists in central cities said, we don't want our heritage knocked down, which I completely understand, but then created such restrictive zoning that only very rich households can live in the majority of well-located neighborhoods in Toronto, for instance.But from the right as well, there was this belief that the market can solve all problems, including the problem of housing for low-income people. And there's never been any proof that that particular contention is true. Whereas there's plenty of evidence that the needs of low-cost, low-income people can only be met through a kind of social perspective.Just like if you said, hey, you have to pay the real costs of healthcare. Well, 20% of you won't be able to, and that's too bad for you. Or everyone needs to pay the real cost of primary education. Well, sorry, many of you will have to remain illiterate.So housing is a basic need, a basic social determinant of health, just as education and healthcare is. And although housing is unlike healthcare and education in that the majority of it is provided by the private sector, just like food, there does need to be some consideration for the fact that everybody needs housing, just like they need healthcare and education and food.Nate:There's a lot there. And really, I think I was on the road a lot last year for an ultimately unsuccessful bid on the provincial leadership side. But I talked about housing a lot because it was, I think it's got to be the overriding focus for all levels of government, but especially provincial governments as it relates to zoning reform.And the line I would use, and I believe in this, I think this is how to articulate it at a high level that governments need to get out of the way on the market side so homes can be built and governments have to get back in the game in a serious way on getting social housing built and public housing built. And at a high level, those are the two objectives.Now, let's start with, there's a lot in what you said on both fronts, but let's start with market housing.You've got a tragic situation where you've got a doubling of home prices, but wages have only increased by 7% over the last five, six years. You've set out a target on this front in your own analysis to say we need 2 million homes with affordable monthly rents.So that's our goal. And to get there, part of this is ending exclusionary zoning. And then every level of government has role to play.The federal government has the Housing Accelerator Fund, which is one of the programs I quite like, although I know it's subject to maybe getting cut under the next government.Carolyn:I do too. I just wish that there was the same kind of conditional funding with provinces. I mean, it seems like the federal government has gone, yeah, let's bully some municipalities and I have no problem with that, or let's provide targets to municipalities.Nate:I'm okay with the firm sort of like carrots and sticks. And in this case, yeah, it's a combination of the two.Carolyn:It is.Nate:And we should be firm with municipalities that don't do their jobs on any restrictive zoning. But when a province can end it with the stroke of a pen across the board, surely we should be even more forceful with provincial governments.Carolyn:Well, let me give the example of supportive housing. So the federal government announcedthe Rapid Housing Initiative, which in many ways has been the most successful national housing strategy program, although it came along as a COVID era additional.Nate:It's the only program I really like talking about, other than the half, the Housing Accelerator Fund, because I can see real results. I can see Toronto, for example, working to change their zoning rules and other municipalities across the province and country, frankly.The Rapid Housing is the only other piece. And there was a housing accelerator or a housing innovation fund, affordable housing innovation fund that was sort of a precursor to it. That's the only program I really point to to show like that's results oriented. There are real outcomes I can point to of homes that have been built where there are people that have moved out of the shelter system that are living in these homes. And, you know, people can debate it, but I see it as a broad success.Carolyn:I'm in furious agreement. It met and exceeded targets. The only problem was that in many cases it was supportive housing or housing with supports. And those supports can't be provided by the federal government.Nate:I know.Carolyn:It's worth of the provincial responsibility. And I think there was a little bit of wishful thinking that the provinces would come along, but in many cases, and Ontario is one of them, they just didn't come along.So what would it be like if the federal government said, okay, as part of our health transfer dollars, we're going to transfer money directly into the health and social support services that we know are necessary in order to keep people with mental and physical health needs housed and we'll just claw it out of the health transfer payment.I think that would be fair. It's still going to the people who need it the most through municipalities, but it would have the impact of showing that these targets are serious and also hopefully pointing provinces towards genuine plans to end homelessness. And the province has so many levers that could help prevent and end homelessness.It has landlord-tenant relations and eviction protection. It has health and social services, which are an essential part of housing for people with disabilities, older people, et cetera. So the province can't wash its hands of the kind of housing policy that the federal government and municipalities are talking about.They are the laggard in terms of the three levels of government, as far as I'm concerned.Nate:Do you think, so I have an example locally of 60 units built modular housing. It was through the Affordable Housing Innovation Fund, that's how I even know it exists, but the precursor to sort of rapid housing.And I think of it as a success. It was some local opposition. It was challenging to get through some of those conversations. There's probably a bit more legwork that could have been done to make sure that it's all single units and it could have been probably, there are demographics to serve that drive this and I do understand that, but I do think in some of these cases, some of the literature I've read suggests that having some mix of single and family units can be helpful in the longer term.I've read some stuff from John Sewell and others. So I don't know, maybe some of that could have been part of the mix in a way to respond to local concerns, but overall it's been a success.And yet the city puts up the parking lot, the feds bring in the capital dollars, it gets built and the missing partner of the table on the wraparound ongoing supports is the province of Ontario.So we fill this locally with a particular project, but it happens everywhere. And you're right. I do think we need to be more forceful on the provincial side. So then what does that look to you?You did in your book suggest a couple of different things. You have a different idea that you propose there, but one piece is around requiring infrastructure dollars. So you have more, you're pushing provinces to add more density in transit oriented areas and you tie federal infrastructure dollars.The half is obviously an example of using some federal dollars to try and change dynamics. We've got now a version of this where there's billions of dollars in loans available to provinces that opt into sort of the BC model, BC bills and doing things in a better way.If you're advising the housing minister on this front, how much more forceful can we be at the federal level around addressing NIMBYism, do you think?Caroyln:Well, I think the big cure to NIMBYism is a lot more front-end work when it comes to community planning.There's some really good work that's been done by a group called Renovate the Public Hearing, NBC. It's a black-clad group out of Simon Fraser and they use citizen juries, for instance, which are randomly chosen individuals in a community. Actually, Mark was part of one many years ago in Toronto out by Jennifer Keesmaat and they make kind of high-level decisions around planning.Usually people, just everyday people off the street, given all the facts and all the evidence, will make pretty good decisions. But I don't think that residents should be asked to make decisions about every single development. I think there needs to be a lot more enabling environment quite radically, I suppose.I think that four stories as of right with unlimited units would allow a whole new generation of small apartment buildings.Nate:That seems the minimum, by the way, so this is something that, you know, the half pushes and other changes have been proposed by other municipal leaders are on four stories as of right. Sorry, four units.Carolyn:It's not four units, it's four stories.Nate:Okay, so four stories would be more radical, but it's certainly less radical though than, the example I love from your book was Japan, which has incredibly permissive zoning rules that is rightly focused their zoning permissions on nuisances and real nuisances that affect quality of life, and not just they keep certain people out of this community and keep my property values up.Carolyn:And that's about mix as well. That's about having small grocery stores next to homes, next to trial care centers, next to high schools or whatever.So I think a lot of the land use zoning is infamously two-dimensional. Like it says, this is what the land use will bein this particular area. And that's really problematic in terms of the kind of walkable communities that many of us are talking about as well as transit-oriented communities.Of course,the minimum heights would need to be greater near transit stations and even bus stops, I'd argue, but certainly that sort of baseline that would allow, they'd allow multiplexes, they'd allow people to build granny flats and give the main house to one of their kids or two of their kids if the kids subdivided or whatever.I think that that's sort of the retail change that needs to happen. There's sort of the wholesale change, which are big new developments on government land or near transit stations, et cetera.But the sort of retail change is really important. A lot of neighborhoods in Toronto, and I know you live in Toronto, have lower densities than they did 30 years ago. They have smaller households, more single-person households, et cetera. So the built form needs to, you know, we need to have a lot more flexible housing to make a long story short.And even if in the best case scenario, non-market housing was 20% of all housing, 80% would still be provided by the private sector. It's really hard for homeowners to say, hey, I'm going to subdivide into three units.The municipal government makes it difficult through approvals and development taxes. Finance providers say, what's your experience as a developer? You know, so I think we need a far more enabling environment to make the kind of changes we need.Nate:Well, my last comment I would say on the market side is, and density, and in general, and encouraging density. It does strike me, one other tool that the feds could potentially use is when we, one thing is, you know, okay, tying infrastructure dollars to density around transit. That seems like no brainer stuff.But there's also when the mayor of Norfolk County comes to me and says, we need real investments in wastewater. Well, great. Federal investments on the infrastructure side tied to some action on density. And I think different municipalities will have different needs.And similarly, some municipalities may balk to go, well, if we add so much density, well, how do we manage the healthcare capacity in these areas, the school capacity in these areas, the childcare capacity in these areas.And so there are infrastructure related needs to adding density and the feds and the province are in a much better position to write those large checks to make that happen.Anyway, so I think there's, you know, maybe housing accelerator fund, but just pushed to, you know, the next level even. So it's not just dollars related housing, but it's dollars related infrastructure more broadly.Okay, but on the, you mentioned non-market and I do want to spend a good amount of time on that, because I actually think that is the missing piece. We can talk about market housing forever, but you rightly know in your book that, you know, market housing is not going to get us out of the crisis that we're in, especially for so many people who can never imagine owning a home right now, given where home prices are at and how much they've run away from wages.And I want you to talk a little bit about, for those who maybe don't get through, who don't get to your book, the examples, you mentioned France, you mentioned, there's a range of different examples in your book though, focus on non-market housing. We used to do this in Canada in a more serious way.What are some of the things we should be doing that other countries do in this space? What would be your top three, four or five hit lists of, you know, France does this and Denmark does this, and if Canada really wanted to re-energize, writing big checks is one of it, but if Canada really wanted to re-energize the space, what's your hit list?Carolyn:Well, one of them is something I'm working on today, actually, in response to a request from the federal government, which is, what's the capacity of developers across Canada to create large-scale developments on government land? So, there are some really exciting large-scale developments.In Vancouver alone, there's SINOC, which is a Squamish-led development that's going to produce 6,000 apartments, very well located next to Burrard Bridge, as well as Jericho Lands, which again is Canada Lands Company plus three First Nations. Those are the kinds of large-scale development that can really show a way forward.And if you look at St. Lawrence neighborhood, people used to come from all over the world to look at St. Lawrence neighborhood. What an amazing development that was, 50 years old now, and 4,000 homes, a third each, public housing, cooperative housing, condos, again the rule of thirds.It was considered such a radical idea to have schools at the bottom and grocery stores at the bottom and a church and a pub and a restaurant and everything at the bottom, but it really works knit along that linear park. It's still a really lovely neighborhood, and it was a game-changer.At that time, talking about families living in eight-story buildings was considered, you know, crazy radical stuff, but it worked. So, we need about 100 more St. Lawrence neighborhoods, and then we need a lot of small-scale enablers such as, as I say, four-story buildings that I was recently on the housing industry task force, and there's so many innovative prefabricated housing producers, and they said all we need is a certain level of guaranteed demand.We'll build the factories, we'll hire the people, and of course you get a much more diverse labor force working for factories than you might in construction industries.The construction industry right now is an aging population with a high level of retirements expected, so we need prefab housing.Prefab housing can be awesome. What would it be like if the federal government did a guaranteed order of, I don't know, 200,000 homes a year, most ambitiously. Okay, let's call it 50,000, be a little bit less ambitious.We know already that modular student housing works in Quebec. UTILE builds affordable student homes really cheaply using modular. We know that the Rapid Housing Initiative was on the back of a kind of four-story special with the ground floor being community services and the social workers, and three stories of housing above it.So, we have those kinds of models that will work nationally, and if you did that sort of a pre-order, you could really build up Canada's prefab industry in a really exciting way. It's really important for the north where construction seasons are slow.You know, it ticks so many boxes.Nate:Yeah, it really does. I like that idea a lot.Well, and one thing that struck me, I mentioned Denmark. One thing that struck me was, but before we get to Denmark, actually the stat from France struck me, and people should know, so France produces 110,000 non-market homes a year, more in one year than the total number of non-market homes created in Canada over the last 24 years.Like, that blew my brain. Like, I just like, what are we even doing here? If France is doing that and we're doing this, like, whoa, what are we even doing here?Carolyn:It's really important to emphasize how beautiful many of those homes are. I mean, I don't know whether you've been to Paris recently, but I was in Paris.Nate:Not recently, no. Paris. I got kids. It's hard to travel these days.Carolyn:Oh, but you know, you can just offer them a chocolate croissant.Anyhow, so Cazane de Relay, which is on a former military barracks, and it is, it's got student housing, it's got family housing, but it's knitted around in the former, like, Chondemar, the former military parade ground, this beautiful park that has cafes in it.And it's in a very ritzy part of Paris near a subway line, and people love it, because it's an adaptive reuse of space with a beautiful park in the middle of it. Again, you can make beautiful, socially inclined, environmentally sound architecture, and it's nothing to be ashamed of.Nate:Yeah, of course, yeah.Carolyn:For a long time, I mean, people think of the original version of Regent Park, and they think about these very dire projects.But, you know, think about St. Lawrence neighborhood. Think about in Ottawa, Beaver Barracks, which again, has this beautiful set of community gardens in the middle of it, and district heating, and all kinds of cool stuff. We can make beautiful things.Nate:I mentioned France just because it's such a frustrating comparison that they are building so much more. But Denmark, I found an interesting example because it's a practical sort of solution-oriented example.It's not just, this, France is doing way more than Canada, sorry, Canada. But Denmark's National Building Fund provides 45-year mortgages, 30 years to pay off the building costs, and then 15 years to fund the next new project.Other countries have just, if you compare CMHC financing for non-market versus what these other countries are doing, I mean, other countries are just way lower cost and longer-term financing. And that seems like, I don't know, it seems like low-hanging fruit to me. I don't know how much pushback there is from CMHC, but if we can't do that, then we're not going to solve this problem at all.Carolyn:Well, that's the secret sauce. That was the secret sauce in the 1970s and 1980s when up to 20% of new homes were non-market. It was 40-year mortgages at 2% at the time, when crime was 6%.So it is a challenge, or let's put it this way, it's not CMHC as much as it is the finance ministers who tend not to love that.But you can get to the point, it's not just Denmark, it's Austria and France as well, where you have a revolving loan fund and it refreshes itself.And that goes back to our earlier conversation of the need for thinking long-term. Infrastructure financing is always long-term and the payback from infrastructure financing is always long-term.Nate:I want to get to a conversation, sort of conclude with addressing homelessness, but before we get there, just on the protecting renters. We've promised a bill of rights for tenants and that's obviously in some ways tough because the federal jurisdiction is going to require, again, sort of a carrot-stick approach, although interesting again to note the historical example of national rent control, I think it was in the 1940s, but regardless.Carolyn:1940s and 1941 and 1975.Okay, so even more recent than that. You know Pierre, said in 1975, thou shalt have rent control and all the provinces said, okay.Nate:Interesting. And even where we have some rent control, obviously Ontario is a classic example where you've got rent control while the unit is lived in and then there's such a massive disincentive to keep the unit up or to respond to tenant concerns because, oh, if the tenant leaves, shrug my shoulders, I actually make more money because I can now, the rent control disappears.Carolyn:It's a huge incentive for evictions and it was brought in, that exemption vacancy control was brought in by conservative government.Nate:Does not surprise me on that front. So on the protecting renters front, there's a window here at least with the tenants bill of rights, although maybe a short life left in this parliament, but there is a window there.I think there's probably a window to collaborate with the NDP on something like that or the Bloc on something like that to really get something done. So there's at least some space to maybe fulfill on the implementation side.Beyond that space or maybe even in that space, what would you want to see in Canada on renter protections?Carolyn:I'm doing some work right now with an investor group called SHARE, S-H-A-R-E, that is on ESG guidelines for investors in housing. And I think it's really important, we now have environmental guidelines for investment in housing, but we don't yet have social guidelines on investment.And I sometimes think that soft-suasion is as important as we've been talking about the bully function of federal government. I think it is really that I've seen ESG guidelines have a huge impact on investors.I think that unions, to give one specific example, are uncomfortable with the fact that several of their pension funds invest in and actually have entirely owned REITs who evict current and former union members. I think that's an uncomfortable place to be.So I think that investor guidelines are really important and they would be a world first if they were developed in Canada. So that's kind of exciting.What else is needed in terms of tenant rights? Look, countries in Europe, including countries that are majority renter and richer than Canada, Germany, Switzerland, Austria, Denmark, they tend to have longer leases and tend to have far harder roads towards eviction.So it's partly, absolutely rent, some level of rent negotiation. What Denmark does, one of the things I love about Denmark, is it has, it funds tenant unions and the tenant unions negotiate sort of the landlord.Nate:Better bargaining power.Carolyn:It's a bargaining situation and there is an emphasis on fair cost-based rent increases each year, which seems like a fair and transparent process, but also longer leases is part of the trick. I think that you want to create a situation where you can live for a long time as a renter, invest in other forms of requirement savings other than homes.But right now, definitely being a renter is a second class situation and that leads a lot of people to get into really, really scary debt in order to become homeowners. And that's not necessarily a good situation as well, or living very far away from your work or having to move away from where your family is.Nate:Well, it speaks to, and maybe we should have started here instead of finishing here, but it speaks to what are the twin goals in some ways, like what is a home and to deliver for someone that sense of home and shelter and safety.You have a rundown of different things that have to be considered here. But I think what I would want from a policy lens is at a minimum, you want sure there's some semblance of affordability, and you want to make sure that there's security of tenure, that you want to make sure that people, whether they're a tenant, tenants shouldn't be at such a disadvantage here that they don't have security of tenure, that there isn't that stability in their lives and they can't invest in their property in the same way. They can't know that they're going to be near this school and near this workplace, as you say. That is such an essential part of a home that goes, I think, under discussed in our politics in a really big way.I also, just to finish with on a rent supplement side, you don't have to comment on it because I don't want to get to homelessness in the sort of three minutes you got left, but this stuck out to me too.So France, Germany, and Denmark all spend 0.7% of their GDP on just rent supplements. Canada spends less on all housing related expenditures combined. Anyway, your book broke my brain in a number of different ways.Okay, so to finish with homelessness and addressing homelessness, because you've talked about rapid housing, you've talked about industrial, if the government of Canada committed to 50,000 modular units a year or something like that, we know where we could direct them at a minimum, which is to replace encampments with homes.And we now have Premier in Ontario, at least, who's talking about, he hasn't done it yet, but talking about, you know, send me a letter of mayors calling for the use of the notwithstanding clause as if you should replace encampments using the notwithstanding clause instead of just building homes.It's like in support of housing. And so on the homelessness front, this is a problem that needs to be resolved in a compassionate, evidence-based way. And that is the hope. And I hope it doesn't get, it's being weaponized in our politics in a big way. And I hope we can push back against that.And so to do that, but to do that successfully, are we looking at just a broad expansion of the rapid housing program, committing to that industrial building, the modular units, and then hopefully really aggressively pushing the provinces, as you say, on the supportive housing front, knowing that, you know, a housing first approach is the answer?Carolyn:That would help a lot. I mean, Canada, under the Harper government, funded the largest international experiment in housing first, which is simply providing homeless people with a permanent home with the supports that they need. And it worked.You know, it was 3000 people. The rates of people losing their homes was very low. The rates of people staying home and having better health and economic outcomes was huge.But you can't have housing first without having the housing comma first. That's what the films say. So that's what we need. We need a whole new generation of low-cost housing and many cases with supports that people need because such a high number of people who are homeless have various forms of disability.And if they don't have severe physical and mental health issues before they become homeless, they sure get them very quickly once they become homeless. So what we need to do, it's so self-evident when it comes to housing, when it comes to homelessness.And it doesn't just make moral sense. It makes economic sense.Nate:That's the part that bothers me, by the way. It's so frustrating in our politics.I speak to people like the, you know, small business owners who go, this is affecting my ability to earn an income. People are not coming to downtown London in Ontario as much as they were before because we have a homelessness challenge.You've got parks that parents go, that park is supposed to be so my kid can play in that green space, not for an encampment. And you kind of pull your hair out and go, why can't we just build supportive homes?Carolyn:Hospital emergency rooms aren't made to, you know, it's not of efficient use of hospital emergency rooms to get 200 visits a year.Nate:Exactly.Carolyn:You know, so it makes so much sense. I don't understand why at some basic level, why every province doesn't have a plan to end homelessness. It's a shame and it's also dumb.I mean, it's dumb on so many levels. So yeah, I mean, you know, I agree with you. I was reading Jane Philpott's book on Health For All, and I was going, yeah, the answers are pretty darn simple when it comes to health. Why don't we just do it?You know, and to me, the answers are pretty simple when it comes to housing. Why don't we just do it? You know, so I guess this book's Home Truths is intended to say to people, I know it looks really complex and it is, but the answers aren't that hard to figure out. It's not rocket science.Nate:Yeah. My takeaway was very much that, and this is the last data point that I throw at listeners from your book, but this one really stuck out. You talk about housing first approach in Finland and how the Finnish consider it.Over a period from 1985 to 2016, they went from over 2,100 shelter beds to 52. And then how do they do that?Well, they're cutting emergency shelter beds.How? Because they're increasing supportive housing from 127 to over 1,300. And they're replacing what is a reactive emergency response, which is a more expensive response, frankly.They're replacing that with a long-term housing first approach through supportive housing and non-market housing. And again, it seems obvious.The challenge, of course, is we should have started doing this a decade ago, two decades ago yesterday. And I'm not dismissive of the rapid housing program. I'm not dismissive of the housing accelerator fund. I'm not dismissive of the loans and the grants that are going towards and the new co-op fund. I don't want to be dismissive of all that. We're going in the right direction.It does seem, though, that the scale of the direction we're heading in the right direction, the scale is just not where it needs to be to get us to where we need to get in 30 years.Carolyn:Yep. We've done some really good pilot programs, and now it's time to scale it up and have some real targets. And it's been a pleasure talking policy wonk stuff with you, Nate.Nate:Well, that's what this is for. And I do appreciate the book. I'm glad Mark suggested that you'd be a guest because it prompted me to read your book. And I'm a much better advocate on housing for having done so.Carolyn:Well, thank you, Mark.Nate:I say that regularly on the housing file. Anyway, thanks, Carolyn, for your time.Carolyn:Thank you, Nate. Take care. Bye-bye.Nate:Thanks for joining me on this episode of Uncommons. I hope you found, yes, it was adeeper dive in policy, but I hope you found some of those stats interesting. They were eye-popping to me, frankly.I do think we have a certain Overton window in our politics sometimes, including on housing, and understanding historical examples, understanding what happens in other countries can be incredibly informative in helping to shift that window and delivering greater ambition, especially on such an important file.With that, if you have suggestions for guests or future topics, you can reach me at info at beynate.ca. You can reach me online, of course, on an increasingly variety of platforms. I'm on Bluesky now, but you can reach me at beynate on all those channels. And otherwise, otherwise, until next time. This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit www.uncommons.ca

It's officially December and The Blur is poking it's head around the corner. Festivities have started around the flats with the boys over the weekend, Cam recaps his trip to the Rockhampton Charity Boxing night and Tommy takes us through his two big days of Golf and Pub Golf! We ask the 2 million dollar question if you'd go the rest of your life without using a dunny before we rip in to some Mango stories during Cooking With Daddy. Plenty happening in the news: nuclear subs, drug busts, psychedelic mugs and the eating of the 6.2 million dollar banana before the upcoming UFC card and boxing matches happening this month. The one and only Joey Diaz for Motivation before we wrap up with another instalment of Tommy's Home Truths and an elite Doghouse yarn. Stay safe during December legends, enjoy your week!The Alpha Blokes Summer Merch Drop is live TONIGHT: Black and Tan Bucket Hats, Down The Flats Singlets, Stickers and Stubby Holders and of course the iconic Alpha Blokes Footy Shorts will be available. 6PM AEST at alphablokes.com.auEver wanted to watch the Podcast? Get around our Patreon, only $5 a week to access full uncut visual and audio episodes and check out all of our vlogs, our latest one covers Warehouse upgrades, boxing training and some beach content too: patreon.com/alphablokespodcastBought to you by Better Beer. Now available in 4000+ bottle shops nationwide, get around the Zero Carb lager of Australia: www.betterbeer.com.au0:00 - Silly Season Has Begun23:19 - Chiropractors27:20 - Dunny Question31:09 - Cooking With Daddy43:18 - Alpha News1:13:53 - Motivation1:16:30 - Tommy's Home Truths1:22:23 - The Doghouse Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

It is starting to swelter here in CQ and the boys are getting ready for Summer: Pools, Pizzas and for some reason at least five Pianos. We cover the Pros and Cons of the CQ Summer and what we got up to over the flats on the weekend before a great instalment of Cooking With Daddy: Cambodian got into his soup work and Tommy fired up his brand spanking new Gozney Pizza Oven for the first time. A great variety in Alpha News this week: upcoming biffs, a 6.2 million dollar banana and another scary look into what AI is leading towards. We get pretty truthful during motiviation, important during this time of year to keep your eyes on the end of the tunnel and to stay safe as Silly Season approaches. Before we enter the Doghouse, Tommy also introduces a new segment: Tommy's Home Truths. Plenty going on as always guys, rip in and enjoy your week!The Alpha Blokes Summer Merch Drop is live this coming Tuesday, the 3rd of December: Black and Tan Bucket Hats, Down The Flats Singlets, Stickers and Stubby Holders and of course the iconic Alpha Blokes Footy Shorts will be available. 6PM AEST at alphablokes.com.auEver wanted to watch the Podcast? Get around our Patreon, only $5 a week to access full uncut visual and audio episodes and check out all of our vlogs, our latest one covers Warehouse upgrades, boxing training and some beach content too: patreon.com/alphablokespodcastBought to you by Better Beer. Now available in 4000+ bottle shops nationwide, get around the Zero Carb lager of Australia: www.betterbeer.com.au0:00 - The Pros and Cons of Summer8:04 - Summer Merch Drop13:30 - Weekends32:47 - Cooking With Daddy46:22 - Alpha News1:08:10 - Motivation1:14:30 - Tommy's Home Truths1:23:25 - The Doghouse Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Town lose again at home. We break down the defeat and discuss our limitations and whether its a return to the norm? We have conclusive proof that Rodgers is a much better player than Tharme and we talk about our night in London at the Football Content Awards.Our Black and White Friday sale has also begun! Get discounted prints on our Etsy shop!POD SHOP Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

This week, Oonagh Devitt Tremblay is intrigued by the multiple voices in Sarah Moss's new memoir; and Lucy Dallas speaks to artist William Kentridge.'My Good Bright Wolf', by Sarah Moss'Self-Portrait as a Coffee-Pot', by William Kentridge, streaming on Mubi Produced by Charlotte Pardy Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Home Affairs Minister Leon Schreiber tells Peter Bruce in this edition of Podcasts from the Edge that digitising our the entire chain of documentation between the state and us citizens, and for inbound travelers, “is completely doable” despite the weaknesses of the state-owned IT agency, Sita. He says officials are working overtime and even at weekends to clear visa application backlogs and he wants it all done by Christmas. And as the DA MP who forced the ANC to hand over records of its secretive deployment committee, he says he's not nearly done and that the courts are backing him.

What does it really mean when you want to tell someone a few “home truths”? Even if you resent someone's behaviour and you feel called to put them right, does it really make you powerful or is there something else going on? Today, we're going to dive into what “home truths” are and how they drive you to actually miss true power. We're also going to look at five truly powerful questions that you can ask yourself whenever you feel triggered by someone else's behaviour. Although these questions can be very challenging, they will help you clear your perception and begin the end of separation. 5 Questions of Power: -What is really being resisted here? -What is being gained from the ego identity in this altercation?-How is this person's behaviour the exact mirror of my own behaviour?-How is my behaviour either creating, continuing or maintaining the behaviour that I am most resentful of?-What do I really want? Resources: -Download our exclusive recording Free Subliminal: Supporting the Enquiring Mind bit.ly/podcastsubliminal -Learn more about me and my work at https://claredimond.simplero.com/ -Find me on Facebook https://www.facebook.com/claredimondreal -Let's connect on LinkedIn https://www.linkedin.com/in/clare-dimond-b533007/ -Follow me on Instagram https://www.instagram.com/clare_v_dimond/

Liam Halligan – columnist for the Sunday Telegraph, co-host of Planet Normal and author of Home Truths – returns to The Brendan O'Neill Show. Liam and Brendan discuss the early mistakes that will haunt the Labour government, how to fix the housing crisis and why the Tories shouldn't try to chase the mythical ‘centre ground'.  Order Brendan O'Neill's A Heretic's Manifesto now from:

After five league games, it's time for some home truths. Mike and Andy join Ollie to discuss all things Salop, on the pitch and off the pitch. We discuss recruitment, player performance, tactics, and the club and where we are heading.

Mellissa Oliver from Unity Books Wellington reviews Home Truths by Charity Norman published by Allen and Unwin

Seven years after the tragedy, the inquiry into the Grenfell fire has published its report. What did we learn from it and who bears responsibility? And, with thousands of buildings still believed to contain flammable cladding, what should happen next? With such important lessons to be learnt, why do British inquiries take so long? Also on the podcast, a look at the first PMQs following summer recess and the Tory leadership election. James Heale speaks to Isabel Hardman and Liam Halligan, Telegraph columnist and author of Home Truths. Produced by Patrick Gibbons.

Girl Falling by Hayley Scrivener. She wrote a book a few years ago called Dirt Town which fit right into the recent genre of Australian country/Outback thrillers, and I loved. In this one, Finn and her best friend Daphne have been extremely close friends all their lives, growing up in the Blue Mountains in NSW. Now that they're older, Finn is away at university and Daphne's working as a guide in the Mountains where she's fallen in love with a beautiful woman named Magdu. This romance puts real strain on her relationship with her old friend who starts to act strangely, trying to keep control of the friendship they've always had. One day, the three of them go mountain climbing and Magdu falls to her death – is it suicide, or a terrible accident, or something more sinister…?  Home Truths by Charity Norman who is a New Zealand author living in Hawkes Bay. This book though is set in Yorkshire, where Livia and her husband Scott have a very happy life with their two children, until Scott's disabled brother dies suddenly one day which spins their whole world out of control and Scott goes searching for answers – a search that takes him into the world of conspiracy theories.  As his grip on reality slides, he makes a decision that will put the family on a collision course with tragedy – as we see at the very start of the book where Livia is on trial for attempted murder.  LISTEN ABOVESee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

The War Below by Ernest Scheyder  Tough choices loom if the world wants to go green. The United States and other countries must decide where and how to procure the materials that make our renewable energy economy possible. To build electric vehicles, solar panels, cell phones, and millions of other devices means the world must dig more mines to extract lithium, copper, cobalt, rare earths, and nickel. But mines are deeply unpopular, even as they have a role to play in fighting climate change. These tensions have sparked a worldwide reckoning over the sourcing of these critical minerals, and no one understands the complexities of these issues better than Ernest Scheyder, whose exclusive access has allowed him to report from the front lines on the key players in this global battle to power our future.  This is not a story of tree-hugging activists, but rather of industry titans, scientists, and policymakers jostling over how best to save the planet. Scheyder explores how a proposed lithium mine in Nevada would help global automakers slash their dependance on fossil fuels, but developing that mine could cause the extinction of a flower found nowhere else on the planet. A hedge fund manager's attempt to resuscitate rare earths mining in California relies on Chinese expertise, exposing the paradox in Washington's quest for minerals independence. The fight to end child labor in Africa's mining sector is a key reason, supporters contend, to dig out a vast reserve of cobalt and nickel under Minnesota's vulnerable wetlands. An international mining conglomerate's plan to extract copper for electric vehicles deep beneath Arizona's desert would destroy a Native American holy site, fueling tough questions about what matters more.  In The War Below, Scheyder crafts a business story that matters to everyone. If China continues to dominate production of these critical minerals, it will have a profound impact on the geopolitical order. Beyond China, countries such as Bolivia, Indonesia, and the Democratic Republic of the Congo aim to wield their vast reserves of key minerals. There are no easy answers when it comes to energy. Scheyder paints a powerfully honest and nuanced picture of what is needed to fight climate change and secure energy independence, revealing how America and the rest of the world's hunt for the “new oil” directly affects us all.    Home Truths by Charity Norman  Livia Denby is on trial for attempted murder. The jury has reached a verdict.  Two years earlier, Livia was a probation officer in Yorkshire, her husband Scott a teacher. Their children, Heidi and Noah, rounded out a happy family - until the day Scott's brother died.  Grief and guilt leave Scott searching for answers, a search that takes him into the world of conspiracy theories. As his grip on reality slides, he makes a decision that will put the family on a collision course with tragedy.  Livia's family has been torn apart, and now her son's life is hanging in the balance. Just how far will she go to save the ones she loves?    LISTEN ABOVE See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

It's Part 2 of our Mary Poppins mini series. In this two part mini series explore the world of Mary Poppins with me as we glean some wisdom from the pages and screen of her delightful and practically perfect in every way character.This week we explore the below characteristics of Mary Poppins (listen to last weeks episode for the first 4 lessons)5. She has natural talent6. She is a problem solver7. She empowers those around her8. She comes and goes as neededI hope you're inspired to look at getting organised in a whole new light with these lessons from an iconic character.I'd love to ask you to leave a Google review today - it takes less than 2 minutes and it will make a huge impact on others confidence to listen/ engage/ join with our community and services around the world. Think of it as your way of giving back :) https://g.page/r/CaTTEYtgIiQTEBI/reviewYou may also like to listen to these episodes:Mary Poppins Part 1The Minimal MomMight As Well5 Home TruthsJoin our communityBecome a Patron – your monthly donation makes a huge difference to me being able to produce this podcast. Donations can be as little as $1 a month!Follow me on InstagramFollow me on FacebookJoin my Facebook groupLeave a review on Apple PodcastThank you to my sound engineer, Jarred from Four4ty Studio Get bonus content on Patreon Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Just a spoonful of sugar makes the medicine go down. This and many other lessons on tidying/ organising and decluttering can be learnt from Mary Poppins. In this two part mini series explore the world of Mary Poppins with me as we glean some wisdom from the pages and screen of her delightful and practically perfect in every way character.This week we explore these characteristics of Mary Poppins1. She makes light of heavy work2. She has a positive attitude in dreary work3. She does the right thing4. She is comfortable being herselfMake sure you tune in next week for the final 4 characteristics and how you can embody them to have greater success in your journey to minimalism and intentional living.I'd love to ask you to leave a Google review today - it takes less than 2 minutes and it will make a huge impact on others confidence to listen/ engage/ join with our community and services around the world. Think of it as your way of giving back :) https://g.page/r/CaTTEYtgIiQTEBI/reviewYou may also like to listen to these episodes:The Minimal MomMight As Well5 Home TruthsJoin our communityBecome a Patron – your monthly donation makes a huge difference to me being able to produce this podcast. Donations can be as little as $1 a month!Follow me on InstagramFollow me on FacebookJoin my Facebook groupLeave a review on Apple PodcastThank you to my sound engineer, Jarred from Four4ty Studio Get bonus content on Patreon Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Join us as we sit down with Brad Weisman, a seasoned real estate agent from Keller Williams Platinum Realty. With over three decades of experience, Brad shares his profound insights into the current real estate landscape and market dynamics. From his early days when music was his world, to discovering a second true passion in residential real estate—a career he initially considered a financial fallback—Brad's journey is as inspiring as it is informative. He discusses how his career allowed him to embrace a people-centered role, filled with emotional rewards from helping individuals and families find their "home"—a place that means everything. Tune in to learn: The significant shortage of 7-8 million properties in the U.S. and the factors contributing to this inventory crisis The complex, often lengthy process of residential development and sales Weisman's perspective on why rezoning empty commercial spaces for residential use could revitalize the housing market Essential qualities to look for in a realtor Press play to hear the full conversation and visit Keller Williams Platinum Realty, Keller Williams Berks County (kwplatinumrealty.com) to learn more. Also, look for Weisman's podcast, The Brad Weisman Show, on any podcast venue. Episode also available on Apple Podcasts: https://apple.co/38oMlMr

1. Why I choose to talk about this subject 2. A career in a law and what that could look like 3.  Three Home truths about Why is a career in Law not for everyone 4. Further reading and resources 5.  How can I help you Useful links mentioned in this episode - https://www.prospects.ac.uk/job-profiles/browse-sector/law - https://www.prospects.ac.uk/jobs-and-work-experience/job-sectors/law-sector/areas-of-law - https://www.lawcareers.net/ - https://www.allaboutlaw.co.uk/ - https://www.lawsociety.org.uk/career-advice Doctor Death Lawyer I mention - https://legaltalknetwork.com/podcasts/chicago-bar/2021/10/the-dr-death-edition-a-conversation-with-dallas-d-a-michelle-shughart-about-the-crimes-and-prosecution-of-christopher-duntsch/ Article why a law degree can be difficult to obtain - https://www.bolton.ac.uk/blogs/is-a-law-degree-hard-to-do#:~:text=However%2C%20different%20courses%20present%20different,understanding%20the%20challenges%20law%20presents.&text=Legal%20concepts%20can%20be%20quite,family%2C%20labour%2C%20and%20more. How Can I support you link to working with parents - https://www.somaghosh.com/parents-of-teenagers Parental consultation – https://www.somaghosh.com/parental-consultation Careers advice service – https://www.somaghosh.com/career-advice-service Questions about the episode please email me us at soma@somaghosh.com or soma@thecareerhappinessmentor.com Other useful episodes 1. Episode 88 - How to find work that lights you up (Interview with Janine Esbrand) 2. Episode 102 - How to empower your career and be who you want to be (Interview with Andrea Petrek) 3. Episode 169 - What are the most demand careers the UK? 4. Episode 179 - Is having a degree really worth it   --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/careerhappiness/message

"Enough is enough""That's enough""Leave good enough alone""Close enough is good enough"It's amazing how one simple word can relate so deeply to our relationship with clutter and our satisfaction with our stuff and life in general.This week we talk about how some enough statements can really make you take stock of where you are at and where your satisfaction lies.You Are Enough - Stuff won't make you enough. More stuff, less stuff... you are enough regardless of your things.You've Done Enough - Do what you can with what you have. Every step forward is a step forward (I know... profound!)What Is Enough - What do you need to be happy? How many of something do you need to have enough?I've Had Enough - When you reach peak frustration with clutter it's a good thing as it drives you to make changesWhen Is Enough Enough - How do you know when you've done enough decluttering? How do you know when to stop? At what point do you reach the equilibrium of satisfaction and enoughI'd love to ask you to leave a Google review today - it takes less than 2 minutes and it will make a huge impact on others confidence to listen/ engage/ join with our community and services around the world. Think of it as your way of giving back :) https://g.page/r/CaTTEYtgIiQTEBI/reviewYou may also like to listen to these episodes:5 Home TruthsSwedish Death CleaningMaking DoFOTO: Fear of Throwing OutJoin our communityBecome a Patron – your monthly donation makes a huge difference to me being able to produce this podcast. Donations can be as little as $1 a month!Follow me on InstagramFollow me on FacebookJoin my Facebook groupLeave a review on Apple PodcastThank you to my sound engineer, Jarred from Four4ty Studio Get bonus content on Patreon Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Healing girlies already know they need to heal their inner child - but where do you start? Today, Louise sits down with psychotherapist Tasha Bailey to get into this & more. Louise & Tasha discuss: What inner child healing *actually is*  How our childhood shapes our adulthood The concept of age regressions (including you anger, we see you!) The connection between the inner child, the inner critic, the shadow, and how you feel about yourself  Big bad boundaries (and the importance of them when healing a wounded inner child)  How important play is for children and adults alike ----- ⭐ Want more bonus episodes, Home Truths, Voice Notes from Lu and access to our community area The House? Join OPENHOUSE PREMIUM for all of this + exclusive access to our 'Ask A Therapist' room with guaranteed therapist responses. Plus, enjoy all episodes ad-free! Join OPENHOUSE Premium here: https://openhouse.supercast.com/ ⭐ ----- Connect with Louise on Instagram: @iamlouiserumball Follow Louise (The Therapy Girl) on TikTok: @thetherapygirl__ Connect with OPENHOUSE on Instagram: @theopenhousepodcast Connect with Tasha Bailey on Instagram: @realtalk.therapist Purchase Real Talk: Therapy Lessons in Healing & Self-Love by Tasha Bailey - Available Worldwide here Vibe With Me by Joakim Karud http://soundcloud.com/joakimkarud Music promoted by Audio Library https://youtu.be/-7YDBIGCXs Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Todays episode focuses on 5 Home Truths about clutter and it's impact on your home and life. They're harsh... but true.They're not meant to bring any condemnation, they're for you to meditate on and find freedom in how small actions of intention and decluttering can bring such freedom to your life.1. Most of the stuff you buy is a waste of money2. Stuff can't make you happy3. You'll regret living a life impacted by clutter4. Your clutter is worse than you think5. Everything you love will one day be lostToday is a great day to join my Head, Heart and Home Decluttering Course! Experience true freedom from clutter by learning all the skills you'll need to create and maintain an organised home.You may also like to listen to these episodes:MemoriesLetting GoObject PermanenceJoin our communityBecome a Patron – your monthly donation makes a huge difference to me being able to produce this podcast. Donations can be as little as $1 a month!Follow me on InstagramFollow me on FacebookJoin my Facebook groupLeave a review on Apple PodcastThank you to my sound engineer, Jarred from Four4ty Studio Get bonus content on Patreon Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Welcome to *the* episode designed to help you understand how to actually start shifting out of the ‘freeze mode' of Polyvagal Theory. The more work we do with our There She Glows cohort we're realizing some people are in HARD freeze and have been for a long time. But coming out of freeze needs to be gentle.  Louise and Sarah delve into everything related to 'freeze' and explore practical daily tips, tricks, and hacks to help transition your body out of this state and return it to its 'baseline'. If you're depressed or feel stuck, lost and like you can't seem to function in the way you want to, this episode is for you. It's also a beautiful episode to help you support others around you who may be feeling ‘frozen', stuck or depressed. The pair discuss: Why you can't out-think the freeze mode How healing freeze lies in the bottom-up approach to healing (+ what this means) The concept of a ‘felt sense of safety' and how important this is to healing the freeze state Somatic experiencing - what it is and why the release of emotions is vital for healing freeze Tips, tricks and methods that can help alleviate the ‘freeze' state: including felt sense of safety, morning sunlight, intermittent fasting, psychedelics, mushrooms, BDNF and more The concept of ‘bringing your life force back into your body'  Identifying what energisation means for you - moving, grooving, healing, shaking, singing, dancing, painting, friendship, human connection  - and more The pair also dive into how neural rewiring is a big part of the body learning to function outside of the freeze state and how it can help you shift back to the state where you were born to thrive, heal and repair!  ----- ⭐ Want more bonus episodes, Home Truths, Voice Notes from Lu and access to our community area The House? Join OPENHOUSE PREMIUM for all of this + exclusive access to our 'Ask A Therapist' room with guaranteed therapist responses. Plus, enjoy all episodes ad-free! Join OPENHOUSE Premium here: https://openhouse.supercast.com/ ⭐ ----- Join OPENHOUSE PREMIUM now at: https://openhouse.supercast.com/ Connect with Louise on Instagram: @iamlouiserumball Follow Louise (The Therapy Girl) on TikTok: @thetherapygirl__ Connect with OPENHOUSE: @theopenhousepodcast Connect with Sarah Murphy on Instagram: @thepotentplant Music Sources ⠀ Vibe With Me by Joakim Karud http://soundcloud.com/joakimkarud ⠀ Music promoted by Audio Library https://youtu.be/-7YDBIGCXs Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

⭐ 5 DAYS TO GO: LAUNCHING SUNDAY 7 APRIL ‘THERE SHE GLOWS' - 63 DAYS TO LEVEL UP YOUR LIFE WITH A STEP BY STEP SUBCONSCIOUS REPROGRAMMING & NERVOUS SYSTEM REGULATION JOURNEY ⭐ Redeem your discounted access with code PODCASTGLOW UP: HERE ⭐ More information on the course - ‘There She Glows' - 9 week life level up - subconscious reprogramming course  This week, join Louise & neuroscientist Em On The Brain to discuss the subconscious mind and how it is the ultimate hack to accelerating your healing journey. The pair get into:  The difference between the conscious, subconscious and unconscious mind How the subconscious mind isn't what you think it is The importance of different brainwave states in rewiring our habits Louise's recent experience with coffee, coffee and more coffee Practical strategies for brain rewiring Which one Emily recommends out of meditation, visualization, theta brainwave induction, binaural beats and more. The importance of dopamine in building a new future ----- ⭐ Want more bonus episodes, Home Truths, Voice Notes from Lu and access to our community area The House? Join OPENHOUSE PREMIUM for all of this + exclusive access to our 'Ask A Therapist' room with guaranteed therapist responses. Plus, enjoy all episodes ad-free! Join OPENHOUSE Premium here: https://openhouse.supercast.com/ ⭐ ----- Join OPENHOUSE PREMIUM now at: https://openhouse.supercast.com/ Connect with Louise on Instagram: @iamlouiserumball Follow Louise (The Therapy Girl) on TikTok: @thetherapygirl__ Connect with OPENHOUSE on Instagram: @theopenhousepodcast Connect with Emily on Instagram: @emonthebrain ⠀ Vibe With Me by Joakim Karud http://soundcloud.com/joakimkarud ⠀ Music promoted by Audio Library https://youtu.be/-7YDBIGCXs Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Get ready to call in your soulmate! Heavily requested, finally delivered! Join Louise on this fun solo episode as she takes you on an 8 stage journey to finding your next partner, including: How she found her man How to move forward by looking back Understanding your Unconscious Attraction & Communication Cycles The power of a Previous Partner Audit & Previous Power Dynamics Reflect on your Parental Patterns Identifying Attachment Hunger  Understanding Falling In Love With Potential (so you don't!) Get clear on your dating app / offline dating strategy (& intention!) Stop wasting your time on dating apps Stop filtering potential with excessive requirements The importance of Dating Standards & Communication  Moving forward with commitment & celebration! Louise also shares her own answers to these questions - including sharing her own Previous Partner Audit too. Welcome to what feels like a podcast with your fun, caring, loving but straight-talking friend. ⭐ MORE EPISODES ⭐ Recommended listening: head to our ‘How To Find A Partner' playlist HERE for our comprehensive podcast pathway on Spotify. ⭐ Want more healing Zoom sessions, bonus episodes, Home Truths, Voice Notes from Lu and access to our community area The House + monthly live Zoom calls to help you heal? Join OPENHOUSE PREMIUM for all of this + exclusive access to our 'Ask A Therapist' room with guaranteed therapist responses. Plus, enjoy all episodes ad-free! Join OPENHOUSE Premium here: https://openhouse.supercast.com/ ⭐ ----- Join OPENHOUSE PREMIUM now at: https://openhouse.supercast.com/ Connect with Louise on Instagram: @iamlouiserumball Follow Louise (The Therapy Girl) on TikTok: @thetherapygirl__ Connect with OPENHOUSE on Instagram: @theopenhousepodcast Vibe With Me by Joakim Karud http://soundcloud.com/joakimkarud Music promoted by Audio Library https://youtu.be/-7YDBIGCXs Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Ready for a real talk about relationships? Today, we're getting down to the nitty-gritty as we explore the 9 not-so-obvious signs of toxic relationships. We get it, the word 'toxic' might bring up images of major drama, but in reality, it's not always that in-your-face. Think of this as a low-key guide to spotting the not-so-cool stuff that might be lurking beneath the surface of your relationships. No frills, no drama, just a straight-up chat between Louise & Dr. Tari Mack about the subtle signs that things might be a bit off-kilter. The pair talk you through:  The reality of gaslighting (so many people get this wrong) One party always being the decision maker The importance of having a voice in a relationship (and how easy it is to lose yours) Believing you can't leave because the partner is dependent on you Double standards in a relationship Isolation from friends and family by the partner in any format Unhealthy boundaries, including surveillance and lack of trust ANY sort of criticism, belittling or manipulation And a lot more.  ----- ⭐ Want more bonus episodes, Home Truths, Voice Notes from Lu and access to our community area The House? Join OPENHOUSE PREMIUM for all of this + exclusive access to our 'Ask A Therapist' room with guaranteed therapist responses. Plus, enjoy all episodes ad-free! Join OPENHOUSE Premium here: https://openhouse.supercast.com/ ⭐ ----- Join OPENHOUSE PREMIUM now at: https://openhouse.supercast.com/ Connect with Louise on Instagram: @iamlouiserumball Follow Louise (The Therapy Girl) on TikTok: @thetherapygirl__ Connect with OPENHOUSE on Instagram: @theopenhousepodcast Connect with Dr. Tari Mack on Instagram: @drtarimack ⠀ Vibe With Me by Joakim Karud http://soundcloud.com/joakimkarud ⠀ Music promoted by Audio Library https://youtu.be/-7YDBIGCXs Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

⭐ All supplements linked below with 10% off (15% for new Healf Customers) ⭐ Girlbossed a little too hard? This is the life update + supplement haul you never knew you needed. This week, join me and Integrative Health Practitioner Sarah Murphy for what I've been going through recently and her top recommendations on everything you need to get you through intense periods of stress, burnout and LIFE. Join me & Sarah as we get into: What happens to your nervous system when you're heading towards burnout The impact of stress on the body *AND* mind The role of electrolytes in stress management How mental health is mineral health The stress-relieving benefits of supplementing with Shilajit The importance of magnesium supplementation Herbal remedies, exploring products like Anima Mundi Apothecary designed to support nervous system function and induce relaxation Beef liver (yes, really) The role of amino acids in mental health and stress management The bio-psycho-social model of anxiety and stress management The benefits of breathwork, specifically the 4-8 breathing technique Shop the whole Healf Store with 10% off everything (15% for new Healf customers): LMNT Electrolytes (I take the LMNT Mango Chili & I'm OBSESSED!) Thorne Magnesium Bisglycinate Ape Nutrition Beef Liver Body Health - Perfect Amino CYMBIOTIKA Mineral Shilajit Resin Sensate - Vagus Nerve Device Wellbel Glamlab Hair, Skin and Nails Redeem your free 30 days of breathwork and meditation with OPEN: HERE ⭐ Want more bonus episodes, Home Truths, Voice Notes from Lu and access to our community area The House? Join OPENHOUSE PREMIUM for all of this + live monthly Zooms to take you deeper on your healing journey. Plus, enjoy all episodes ad-free! Join OPENHOUSE Premium here: https://openhouse.supercast.com/ ⭐ ----- Join OPENHOUSE PREMIUM now at: https://openhouse.supercast.com/ Connect with Louise on Instagram: @iamlouiserumball Follow Louise (The Therapy Girl) on TikTok: @thetherapygirl__ Connect with OPENHOUSE on Instagram: @theopenhousepodcast Connect with Sarah Murphy on Instagram: @thepotentplant ⠀ Vibe With Me by Joakim Karud http://soundcloud.com/joakimkarud ⠀ Music promoted by Audio Library https://youtu.be/-7YDBIGCXs Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Are you constantly saying "yes" when you really mean "no"? Do you show up to plans when you're exhausted and you'd rather go to bed? Ever find yourself agreeing to tasks you secretly dread? Or going on dates with people you don't want to because you don't want to ‘hurt their feelings'? Whether or not you identify yourself as a ‘people pleaser'. it's time to decode the art of saying "no" and reclaiming your energy so you can learn to love all of your layers and celebrate yourself and your truth this year In this week's episode of the OPENHOUSE Podcast, sponsored by Sol de Janeiro, Louise & psychotherapist Stephanie Therapy dive into: What people-pleasing is  How it forms Why we're scared to say no (or maybe why you hate conflict) The healing hack in asking yourself ‘what is the fear behind this feeling'? How this is often a coping mechanism to childhood Identifying whether you are people-pleasing for those who wouldn't do the same for you Where to start with breaking the cycle of people pleasing  The concept of ‘baby boundaries' How to communicate your new boundaries to those around you - and so much more.  On a journey to help you love all of your Layers, this episode is recorded in partnership with Sol de Janeiro to support the launch of their new Delícia Drench Body Butter. Get your hands on this whipped, ultra-rich body butter that supports the skin's barrier and penetrates deep below the surface to lock in moisture and relieve extra dry skin. Shop the product here: ⭐ HERE ⭐ ----- ⭐ Want more bonus episodes, Home Truths, Voice Notes from Lu and access to our community area The House? Join OPENHOUSE PREMIUM for all of this + exclusive access to our 'Ask A Therapist' room with guaranteed therapist responses. Plus, enjoy all episodes ad-free! Join OPENHOUSE Premium here: https://openhouse.supercast.com/ ⭐ ----- Join OPENHOUSE PREMIUM now at: https://openhouse.supercast.com/ Connect with Louise on Instagram: @iamlouiserumball Follow Louise (The Therapy Girl) on TikTok: @thetherapygirl__ Connect with OPENHOUSE on Instagram: @theopenhousepodcast Connect with Sol de Janeiro on Instagram: @soldejaneiro ⠀ Vibe With Me by Joakim Karud http://soundcloud.com/joakimkarud ⠀ Music promoted by Audio Library https://youtu.be/-7YDBIGCXs Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Based on some wonderful subscriber/community comments, we delve into practical examples of the behaviours of NPD individuals, otherwise known as (Covert Narcissists). Sometimes it's harder to identify behaviours in a generalised way when educating ourselves on who and what a narcissist is, these practical examples and situations may assist in that process. When we pull together as a community we can help another to experience those ‘light bulb' moments by sharing typical experiences with narcissists in everyday settings. If any of these examples resonate with you, or you'd like a weekly community based discussion, please let me know in the comments.Coaching Enquiries - narcscon@gmail.com Channel Support with thanks:https://paypal.me/narcscon?country.x=IE&locale.x=en_UShttps://youtu.be/fiAat8h8KQQSupport this podcast at — https://redcircle.com/narcon/donationsAdvertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

Those with even a passing interest in architecture and design will know the name Kevin McCloud.   The award-winning presenter and broadcaster of Grand Designs UK, the show running for 25 years.  Kevin McCloud has ridden its wave of success as he takes viewers on a tour of astonishing homes and wondrous architecture.  The presenter has a love of architecture, telling Newstalk ZB's Mike Hosking that the extent to which people take a “piece of nothing” and turn it into something is fascinating.  “Ever since we, you know, crawled out of a hole, or out of the water onto dry land millions of years ago, we've been attempting to try and kind of straighten the earth a bit.”  “Make it in our image almost.”  McCloud told Hosking that he's sure that every architect has the desire to try and defeat the universe and build something that lasts.  “What the universe wants to do is, basically, turn every mountain into dust.”  “And then every human being wants to kind of, somehow, lift up the dust and form it into something.”   There is one thing McCloud will critique about architecture though, and that's scale.  “I think generally we, we do build really too big.”  “We spend all this money on stuff, and ideas, and all were doing is just trashing our planet, trashing resources, trashing, you know, trashing our bank balances.”  McCloud told the Newstalk ZB host that in his opinion, that money should be spent on storage, clever design, joy, craftsmanship, and perhaps fewer bathrooms.  “We tend to build houses with more toilets than occupants, which I don't understand.”  He's bringing his love of architecture to kiwi audiences, taking to the stage for ‘Kevin McCloud's Home Truths', bouncing around telling stories and showing slides.  Unlike what his producer might want, it's not much of a song and dance but he does want audiences to enjoy themselves.  “That's what it ought to be.”  LISTEN ABOVE See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Today, we're bringing you an episode from our archive. Australia's Home Affairs Department used vast sums of taxpayer money to fund suspect payments to powerful Pacific Island politicians, specifically to run offshore processing of asylum seekers on Nauru and Manus Island. A major investigation by The Age and The Sydney Morning Herald has found a secret money trail beginning in Home Affairs coffers and ending with payments to bank accounts controlled by powerful Pacific Island politicians. The payments were made by companies engaged by the government to run the facilities: in Nauru, two companies called Broadspectrum and Canstruct, and on Manus Island, a company called Paladin and were for services to help run the facility.   The Pacific payments scandal forms a part of a much larger problem within the Home Affairs department. Because while focusing on housing boat arrivals offshore, Home Affairs has taken attention away from its core business of helping legitimate migrants arrive and expelling the rest. We are not suggesting that any payments were in fact bribes, which is ultimately something that can only be proven by a court. But the deals raise integrity concerns that warrant significant scrutiny by the Department. On this episode, investigative journalists Nick McKenzie and Michael Bachelard on how our Home Affairs Department is failing. Read more on our Home Truths series here.  This episode first aired on July 25, 2023.  Subscribe to The Age & SMH: https://subscribe.smh.com.au/See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Today, we're bringing you an episode from our archive. Australia's Home Affairs Department used vast sums of taxpayer money to fund suspect payments to powerful Pacific Island politicians, specifically to run offshore processing of asylum seekers on Nauru and Manus Island. A major investigation by The Age and The Sydney Morning Herald has found a secret money trail beginning in Home Affairs coffers and ending with payments to bank accounts controlled by powerful Pacific Island politicians. The payments were made by companies engaged by the government to run the facilities: in Nauru, two companies called Broadspectrum and Canstruct, and on Manus Island, a company called Paladin and were for services to help run the facility.   The Pacific payments scandal forms a part of a much larger problem within the Home Affairs department. Because while focusing on housing boat arrivals offshore, Home Affairs has taken attention away from its core business of helping legitimate migrants arrive and expelling the rest. We are not suggesting that any payments were in fact bribes, which is ultimately something that can only be proven by a court. But the deals raise integrity concerns that warrant significant scrutiny by the Department. On this episode, investigative journalists Nick McKenzie and Michael Bachelard on how our Home Affairs Department is failing. Read more on our Home Truths series here.  This episode first aired on July 25, 2023.  Subscribe to The Age & SMH: https://subscribe.smh.com.au/See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Do you have big emotions or nearly none at all? Do you feel blocked off from others even when you want to connect? Ever wondered why intimacy seems to be so easy for everyone else? If yes, this episode is for you. This one is for the people who had ‘good parents' and a ‘good childhood' and objectively ‘not much to complain about' but still don't seem to have found the answers, solutions or connections in intimacy that they were hoping for. Today, Louise is joined by Dr. Jonice Webb, leading clinical psychologist in the space of childhood emotional neglect to discuss how a parent's failure to notice, acknowledge or respond to your emotions and emotional needs can deeply shape the adult that shows up in the dating and friendship world today. The pair discuss how:  Our brain registers what ‘happened' more than what didn't happen (& how our childhood can impact our ventral striatum) Having our feelings invalidated (being told they are wrong or excessive) or that emotions are a burden is very damaging for children The concept of ‘walling off' our feelings (so they happen outside of our awareness) + how this shows up in adulthood The concepts of emotional numbness, emotional suppression and emotional disconnection  How these experiences can impact our self-worth, self-esteem and relational health A lack of emotional attunement and validation in childhood can lead to a lack of self care in adulthood The pair also discuss a journey towards warmth, connection and recovery. They talk about HOW to break down emotional walls and allow oneself to feel, facing neglected emotions, finding meaning and purpose. ----- ⭐ Want more bonus episodes, Home Truths, Voice Notes from Lu and access to our community area The House? Join OPENHOUSE PREMIUM for all of this + exclusive access to our 'Ask A Therapist' room with guaranteed therapist responses. Plus, enjoy all episodes ad-free! Join OPENHOUSE Premium here: https://openhouse.supercast.com/ ⭐ ----- Join OPENHOUSE PREMIUM now at: https://openhouse.supercast.com/ Connect with Louise on Instagram: @iamlouiserumball Follow Louise (The Therapy Girl) on TikTok: @thetherapygirl__ Connect with OPENHOUSE: @theopenhousepodcast Connect with Dr Jonice Webb: Dr Jonice Webb Resources Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Do you DREAD winter? Fearful of the winter blues? Want to jet off somewhere for some sunshine or considering medication but hesitant? If yes, this episode is for you. Louise discusses Seasonal Affective Disorder with Integrative Health Practitioner, Sarah Murphy. Discover what it is, why it manifests, and learn prevention methods so you can thrive, not just survive, this season. ⭐ THE ULTIMATE 17 STEP GUIDE TO BATTLING WINTER DEPRESSION + ALL PRODUCT RECOMMENDATIONS: HERE ⭐ The pair jump into:  What seasonal depression actually is  The importance of the circadian rhythm and how light exposure can send our whole system out of whack (+ how to fix this) How seasonal depression is connected to under or over production of dopamine, serotonin and melatonin (+ tips and tricks) The ‘inflammatory model of depression' and how chemical imbalances are not the only origin of depression  The connection between Vitamin D, sugar and the ‘winter immune system' (+ how to fuel your body this Winter) Plus, top tips and tricks to feel AMAZING this winter rather than average. The pair dive into morning routines, evening routines, hydration, diet, blood sugar regulation, and more.  ----- ⭐ Want more bonus episodes, Home Truths, Voice Notes from Lu and access to our community area The House? Join OPENHOUSE PREMIUM for all of this + exclusive access to our 'Ask A Therapist' room with guaranteed therapist responses. Plus, enjoy all episodes ad-free! Join OPENHOUSE Premium here: https://openhouse.supercast.com/ ⭐ ----- Join OPENHOUSE PREMIUM now at: https://openhouse.supercast.com/ Connect with Louise on Instagram: @iamlouiserumball Follow Louise (The Therapy Girl) on TikTok: @thetherapygirl__ Connect with OPENHOUSE: @theopenhousepodcast Connect with Sarah Murphy on Instagram: @thepotentplant Music Sources ⠀ Vibe With Me by Joakim Karud http://soundcloud.com/joakimkarud ⠀ Music promoted by Audio Library https://youtu.be/-7YDBIGCXsY Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Andrew, Adam, Rey reconvene to discuss the past month in Ukrainian football! The winter break has already started for Persha and Druha and it's imminently approaching the UPL too! All the while Shakhtar are hopeful of a UCL spring, Ukraine are hopeful of a European summer whilst Ukrainians across Europe are turning it ON for their clubs! Joining the trio to take you all through it all is special guest Vitalii Volochai. As a very experienced football commentator and pundit covering the top 5 leagues, the UPL and the National team regularly - there's no-one better to have for this episode! The guys talk: The UCL Round of 16 is ON? Pusic masterclass v Antwerp Why hasn't UCL form been reciprocated in the UPL against title rivals? What is better for Shakhtar & Ukraine coefficients? UCL OR UEL knockout rounds? Zorya - the beginning of the end? The Euros via the Play Offs Ukraine v Italy Bosnia then winner of Israel v Iceland at home! Chances? Too early to tell Candidates for March squad showing early glimpses Kovalenko Renaissance The Yarmolyuk rise Yehor's chances of breaking into Rebrov midfield? UPL / PFL Battle for the title in UPL continues  The longest ever UPL game Dnipro-1 looking really good under Maksymov What's going on at Veres? Bankruptcy? Obolon manager in sexism referee scandal… Minaj winless and have a new manager… Metalist 1925 have a new president System change in Persha – no points halving etc Listen to the above and MUCH, MUCH MORE in our latest episode! ********************************************** Want to help the families of fallen ultras cope through the first difficult months without their husbands, partners, fathers, brothers and sons? More Info & ways to donate here: standsofheroes.com ************************************************ Please subscribe to Ukraine + Football on your favoured podcast provider and leave a review if you are able to! You can also RATE us on Apple Podcasts & NOW Spotify - please give us 5 stars if you are able to! We are also now on YOUTUBE - for vlogs and live streams please subscribe here: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCyiNMhP18iGwwov5FkcMY7Q Please email any questions, feedback or ideas to: ukraineplusfootball@gmail.com

  Moe is Joined by Attorney Spencer Payne as the two dive deep into the often-overlooked issues of nursing home and assisted living healthcare. Through compelling stories of neglect and personal experiences, we shine a light on the heart-wrenching realities faced by elderly residents. Explore the challenges of navigating cognitive decline, the pain of bed sores and other injuries that come from immobility, and the legal complexities surrounding elopement in the elder care field. Join us as we advocate for the voiceless and work to expose the harsh realities hidden behind those closed doors, seeking justice and better care for our loved ones. If you have any questions you may need help answering, send them to ask@dewittlaw.com

⭐ 30 DAY FREE OPEN TRIAL TO HEAL YOUR ANXIOUS ATTACHMENT STYLE WITH YOUR BREATH, MIND & BODY: withopen.com/OPENHOUSE ⭐ Trying to heal your anxious attachment style but don't know where to look or what to do next? Understand the cycle but can't stop stressing out and even going into full blown meltdown when something small happens that feels so big? If yes, this episode is for you. Louise is joined by Sarah Murphy, Integrative Health Practitioner and biology of trauma expert as they discuss why you're not ‘just an anxious person' you just have biology that is more susceptible to anxiety.  The pair dig into the 5 reasons that you aren't healing your anxious attachment style, including: Your external environment Gut inflammation  Your neurotransmitter imbalances An oversized or overly sensitive amygdala Lack of oxygenation in your prefrontal cortex Low vagal tone And more! The pair also discuss how breathwork can help you work through ALL of these biological challenges and why OPEN is the best app to do that. Get your 30 day free trial here: withopen.com/OPENHOUSE ----- ⭐ Want more bonus episodes, Home Truths, Voice Notes from Lu and access to our community area The House? Join OPENHOUSE PREMIUM for all of this + exclusive access to our 'Ask A Therapist' room with guaranteed therapist responses. Plus, enjoy all episodes ad-free! Join OPENHOUSE Premium here: https://openhouse.supercast.com/ ⭐ ----- Join OPENHOUSE PREMIUM now at: https://openhouse.supercast.com/ Connect with Louise on Instagram: @iamlouiserumball Follow Louise (The Therapy Girl) on TikTok: @thetherapygirl__ Connect with OPENHOUSE: @theopenhousepodcast Connect with Sarah Murphy on Instagram: @thepotentplant Music Sources ⠀ Vibe With Me by Joakim Karud http://soundcloud.com/joakimkarud ⠀ Music promoted by Audio Library https://youtu.be/-7YDBIGCXs Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

After the disappointment in Warsaw, we look back at the lessons learnt against Legia, ahead of a must-win Villa Park clash against Zrinjski Mostar.UTVCheck out and follow the Greene King Sports Instagram page hereGET THE EXCLUSIVE MOMS PATRON PODCAST CHANNEL and JOIN MATCH CLUBIf you want ad-free advance versions of the shows and extra exclusive shows during the month and to join My Old Man Said's 24/7 Villa community, Match Club, please do support the show by becoming a MOMS Member.For more details and to become a member, click here: Become a MOMS MemberFollow the show on Twitter at @myoldmansaid and join the show's listener facebook group The Mad Few.T-Shirt, Mugs & Merch Listeners can now buy a MOMS Podcast T-shirt or mug to show their support of the show and look cool, check out the MOMS SHOP to buy.Credits:David Michael - @myoldmansaid Armen Mirzoian - @VillanArmenMy Old Man Said - https://www.myoldmansaid.comThis Podcast has been created and uploaded by My Old Man Said. The views in this Podcast are not necessarily the views of talkSPORT Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Dan and the two Toms pick the bones out of Harry Kane revealing how losing a few games at Spurs was not considered to be a 'disaster', but at his new club Bayern Munich it is. Plus James Maddison, Hugo Lloris, Scott Munn and more are all discussed during this international break.

This week: First up: for the cover piece, The Spectator's economics editor Kate Andrews has written about Britain's mortgage timebomb, as the UK faces the sharpest interest rate hike since the 80s. In the year leading up to the general election, can the Conservatives come back from this? Kate joins us along with Liam Halligan, economics editor of GB News, Telegraph columnist and author of Home Truths - the UK's chronic housing shortage. Next: Spectator journalist Toby Young has written about 'furries' – children identifying as animals at school. He joins us now, along with Miriam Cates MP who sits on the education select committee. (17:11) Finally: in the arts leader this week, Robert Jackman has written about wrestling. From WWE to amateur fights, there's a whole world out there – and it is growing in popularity. Robert joins the show along with Anthony Sinfield, a professional wrestler, also known as 'Tony Sin'. (28:32) Produced by Natasha Feroze.

The Newscast guide to housing. As the Bank of England issues warnings over the offer of no-deposit mortgages, we look at the state of the housing and rental market in the UK. Housing correspondent for the i newspaper, Vicky Spratt, tells Adam what to expect from a major shakeup of renting rules. Estate agent Megan Eighteen tells us how industry insiders are feeling. And Newsnight economics editor Ben Chu explains the finances behind owning vs renting, and whether housing is actually a good long term investment. Today's Newscast was presented by Adam Fleming. It was made by Chris Flynn with George Dabby and Ivana Davidovic. The technical producer was Michael Regaard. The news editor was Damon Rose.

Robbie Savage and Chris Sutton took your calls on Saturday's football action. We heard from Chelsea fans after yet another defeat for their side, this time to a high-flying Brighton team. Everton fans lamented a damaging defeat at home to Fulham as Bournemouth supporters celebrated what could be a crucial 3 points away at a limp Spurs - with their fans airing their despondency. Robbie was also put to the test in another edition of The Wanderer.

As interest rates rise, lots of pandemic-era property trends are fading—but not every market is equally vulnerable as the boom peters out. Generals have long avoided fighting in cities: it is messy and dangerous. Increasingly, though, they have no choice. And our language columnist on the subtle question of whether “data” is plural or singular. For full access to print, digital and audio editions of The Economist, subscribe here www.economist.com/intelligenceoffer Our GDPR privacy policy was updated on August 8, 2022. Visit acast.com/privacy for more information.