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b'This is, somehow, the 50th episode of Skylines. That seems quite a lot, doesn\\u2019t it? Well done to both you and I for making it this far. This is not, in all honesty, what I intended for this episode: originally, I had hoped Stephanie would come back and we could answer listener questions, possibly while getting slightly drunk. But best laid plans did what best laid plans do, and we couldn\\u2019t make our diaries work, so we\\u2019ll do that in some future show. This week, instead, I\\u2019ve got a very special guest: myself. On Wednesday night I gave a speech on the politics of housing following the general election to a group of people working in the sector (who, if I\\u2019m absolutely honest with myself, know far more about the subject than I do). In that speech I pulled together much of what I\\u2019ve been thinking about this topic for a while \\u2013 why we have a crisis, why it\\u2019s hard to solve, what I think the government is likely to do about it.And so, since I found myself facing a gap in the podcast schedule, I thought you guys might like to hear it. In other words: this episode is 20 minutes of me talking about housing, bookended up a few more minutes of me talking about the podcast and then reading some tweets. If you\\u2019ve always enjoyed Skylines but don\\u2019t much like my voice, this is probably an episode you should skip.Next week, we\\u2019ll be back to regular service with some real people joining me to talk about things. I promise.Skylines is the podcast from the New Statesman\'s cities site, CityMetric. It\'s hosted by Jonn Elledge.

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