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Lynsey Hanley explores Britain's broken housing market through ten homes and their owners.

Lynsey Hanley explores Britain's broken housing market through the stories of ten very different homes and their occupants.

Lynsey Hanley explores Britain's broken housing market through the stories of ten very different homes and their occupants. Every one of Britain's 27 million homes has a story to tell about Britain's housing crisis and how it might be fixed. Over ten episodes, Lynsey explores houses of every shape and size, new and old, right across the UK.

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A Home of Our Own: Crowborough Road, Tooting, South London

Crowborough Road, Tooting, South London

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Lynsey Hanley explores why Danielle still lives with mum Lydia 11 years after graduating.

Lynsey Hanley explores why 32-year-old Danielle still lives with mum Lydia 11 years after graduating. NHS worker Danielle wants to buy a home but has been priced out of her area.

Lynsey Hanley visits 32-year-old Danielle who still lives with her mum Lydia in their Edwardian house in Tooting, south London, 11 years after graduating. 

Every home has a story to tell about the UK's housing crisis.  NHS worker Danielle wants to buy a home but has been priced out of her local area.  It was very different for mum Lydia who moved here 30 years ago when property was still affordable.  Lynsey explores why Danielle's experience is so different to her mum's - and she examines the effect that living at home for so long has had on Danielle's confidence and development.  

House historian Melanie Backe-Hansen researches Crowborough Road's history and Professor Paul Cheshire of the London School of Economics puts Danielle's experiences in context.  

Producer:  Laurence Grissell

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