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3 Aug 2017

An ode to social housing.

Sometimes words alone aren’t enough to explain the issues. One man experimenting with a different medium is the poet and performer, Tony Walsh. Tony grew up in social housing not far from us here, in Manchester and he even credits the roof that the state placed over his head with saving his life. So, we asked Tony to write us a poem in response to some of the issues we’ve been exploring here this evening. Here is Tony Walsh’s ode to social housing.