{"id":31255,"date":"2025-09-22T15:49:29","date_gmt":"2025-09-22T19:49:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cklofm\/?p=31255"},"modified":"2025-09-22T15:49:29","modified_gmt":"2025-09-22T19:49:29","slug":"episode-405-fixing-london-middlesex-community-housing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cklofm\/blogs\/thecraigneedlespodcast\/2025\/09\/episode-405-fixing-london-middlesex-community-housing\/","title":{"rendered":"Episode 405: Fixing London-Middlesex Community Housing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>London-Middlesex Community Housing has a lot of problems.<\/p>\n<p>Buildings that are falling apart. Pest infestations. Plumbing issues. But &#8211; are those things getting better?<\/p>\n<p>Is the organization turning a corner &#8211; even if they&#8217;re staring down more than $100-million in repair bills?<\/p>\n<p>Deputy Mayor Shawn Lewis and Ward 1 Councillor Hadleigh McAlister both sit on LMCH&#8217;s board and joined Craig on the podcast to discuss.<\/p>\n<p>The Craig Needles Podcast is brought to you by Downtown London and the Covent Garden Market.<\/p>\n<div class=\"podbean-shortcode embed-container\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" id=\"podbean-shortcode\" width=\"100%\" height=\"150\" scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"no\" src=\"https:\/\/www.podbean.com\/player-v2\/?i=kyvij-1971807-pb&amp;from=pb6admin&amp;share=1&amp;download=0&amp;rtl=0&amp;fonts=Arial&amp;skin=f6f6f6&amp;font-color=auto&amp;logo_link=podcast_page&amp;btn-skin=c73a3a\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p>Follow the show on your favourite podcast app:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/music.amazon.com\/podcasts\/f6821161-c427-469e-ad54-a9913e45cf3e\/the-craig-needles-podcast\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Amazon Music<\/a>\u00a0|\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/open.spotify.com\/show\/4bcTUq6pZZCFbD7EDdxJpw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Spotify<\/a>\u00a0|\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/tunein.com\/podcasts\/News--Politics-Podcasts\/The-Craig-Needles-Podcast-p1560524\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">TuneIn<\/a>\u00a0|\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/podcasts.apple.com\/ca\/podcast\/the-craig-needles-podcast\/id1593395773\">Apple Podcasts<\/a>\u00a0|\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.iheart.com\/podcast\/269-the-craig-needles-podcast-236255548\/\">iHeart<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"London-Middlesex Community Housing has a lot of problems. Buildings that are falling apart. Pest infestations. Plumbing issues. But &#8211; are those things getting better? Is the organization turning a corner &#8211; even if they&#8217;re staring down more than $100-million in repair bills? Deputy Mayor Shawn Lewis and Ward 1 Councillor Hadleigh McAlister both sit on","protected":false},"author":110,"featured_media":27606,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"featured_img_display":"Yes","footnotes":""},"categories":[3362],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-31255","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-thecraigneedlespodcast"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-04-14 02:01:33","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"react_link":"https:\/\/classicrock981.com\/blogs\/thecraigneedlespodcast\/2025\/09\/episode-405-fixing-london-middlesex-community-housing\/","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cklofm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31255","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cklofm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cklofm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cklofm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/110"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cklofm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=31255"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cklofm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31255\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":31259,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cklofm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31255\/revisions\/31259"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cklofm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/27606"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cklofm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31255"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cklofm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31255"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cklofm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31255"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}