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Join Liz Moseley and special guests to investigate the post-Covid rent revolution. Our daily digital ThinkIns are exclusively for Tortoise members and their guests.Try Tortoise free for four weeks to unlock your complimentary tickets to all our digital ThinkIns.If you’re already a member and looking for your ThinkIn access code you can find it in the My Tortoise > My Membership section of the app next to ‘ThinkIn access code’.We’d love you to join us.Restaurant owners re-opening with reduced seating and empty streets fear that having to stump up 50% rent back-dated til April might kill them off entirely. Meanwhile, some wealthier residential tenants are snapping up bargains in big cities from the softer market – whilst others are braced for the end of a moratorium in evictions. As for tourist destinations, how long can the virus keep spiralling rents caused by AirBnB at bay?Chair: Liz Moseley, Editor and Partner, TortoiseOur special guest include:Tom Copley became Deputy Mayor for Housing in 2020 and oversees the Mayor’s £4.8bn Affordable Homes Programme, including ‘Building Council Homes for Londoners’ – the first-ever City Hall initiative dedicated to council homebuilding.Tom also oversees the Mayor’s work to improve the private rented sector, and to commission services to support rough sleepers. Before becoming a Deputy Mayor, Tom was a London Assembly London-wide List Member for eight years, serving as Chair of the Assembly’s housing committee and as Labour Group housing spokesperson. He also served on Lewisham Council, representing Sydenham. Prior to his election to the Assembly, Tom worked for Hope not hate – an anti-fascist, anti-racist charity that works with communities to fight racism and hatred. He is a trustee of Humanists UK, and New Diorama Theatre in Camden.Anne Ashworth is a property and personal finance writer, commentator and consultant. She is a regular contributor to the property and financial sections of the Daily Mail, and a columnist at The London Magazine. While at The Times, she edited two award-winning parts of the newspaper: Bricks & Mortar, covering property and interiors, and Times Money, the personal finance section, with its focus on mortgages, investments and pensions. In both roles she provided a broad range of print and digital content, including comment pieces, reports and features, while also being responsible for editorial direction and design on all platforms.Luis Mendes has been a guest Lecturer at the Lisbon School of Education since 2010 and the Institute of Geography and Spatial Planning of the University of Lisbon (IGOT-UL) since 2012. He is a member of the Portuguese Association of Geographers, the Geography Teachers Association and the Lisbon Tenants Association, integrating since 2012 and 2018, respectively, the board of the latter two. Since 2003, he carries Permanent Researcher functions in the Centre for Geographical Studies of the University of Lisbon (CEG/UL) of IGOT-UL, in which has developed research in the fields of Urban Studies (notably gentrification and urban regeneration), Geographical Education and Teaching of Geography.How does a digital ThinkIn work?A digital ThinkIn is like a video conference, hosted by a Tortoise editor, that takes place at the advertised time of the event. Digital ThinkIns are new to Tortoise. Now that our newsroom has closed due to the coronavirus outbreak, we feel it’s more important than ever that we ‘get together’ to talk about the world and what’s going on.The link to join the conversation will be emailed to you after you have registered for your ticket to attend. When you click the link, you enter the digital ThinkIn and can join a live conversation from wherever you are in the world. Members can enter their unique members’ access code to book tickets. Find yours in My Tortoise > My Membership in the Tortoise app.If you have any questions or get stuck, please read our FAQs, or get in touch with us at memberhelp@tortoisemedia.comWhat is a Tortoise ThinkIn?A ThinkIn is not another panel discussion. It is a forum for civilised disagreement. It is a place where everyone has a seat at the (virtual) table. It’s where we get to hear what you think, drawn from your experience, energy and expertise. It is the heart of what we do at Tortoise.

For a growing proportion of young people, owning their own home is becoming a distant prospect – or even a dream they will never achieve. Whatever happened to the property-owning democracy? And why should the younger generation be penalised by the soaring house prices that have enriched their parents? Our special guests include: Rt Hon. Lord David Willetts, President of the Resolution Foundation. He served as the MP for Havant between 1992-2015 and was the former Minister for Universities and ScienceDan Hegarty, Founder and CEO, Habito Georgie Laming, Campaign Manager of Generation Rent which campaigns for professionally managed, secure, decent and affordable private rented homes in sustainable communities Nick Cuff, Land director at Pocket Living, a London-based property developer that offers well-designed and affordable homes to local first-time buyers Chair: Deborah Hargreaves, Financial Journalist and Founder of the High Pay Centre, Campaigning for fairer pay. She is also Chair or the London Child Poverty Alliance  What is a Tortoise ThinkIn? A ThinkIn is not another panel discussion. It is a forum for civilised disagreement. Modelled on what we call a ‘leader conference’ in the UK (or an editorial board in the US), it is a place where everyone has a seat at the table. It’s where we get to hear what you think, drawn from your experience, energy and expertise. It’s where, together, we sift through what we know to come to a clear, concise point of view. It is the heart of what we do at Tortoise. Drinks from 6.00pm, starts promptly at 6.30pm. If you are late to a ThinkIn you can ‘SlinkIn’! If you would like to contribute to this ThinkIn, let us know by emailing thinkin@tortoisemedia.com We film our Thinkins so we can watch them back, edit the best bits and share them with members who weren’t there in person. Members can find their ThinkIn booking code in My Tortoise, under My Membership.

Laws created by William the Conqueror still govern the ownership of a fifth of homes in England and Wales. Is there a place for such feudal laws and the hardships they can create in the 21st century? What should be done about them? What is a Tortoise ThinkIn? A ThinkIn is not another panel discussion. It is a forum for civilised disagreement. Modelled on what we call a ‘leader conference’ in the UK (or an editorial board in the US), it is a place where everyone has a seat at the table. It’s where we get to hear what you think, drawn from your experience, energy and expertise. It’s where, together, we sift through what we know to come to a clear, concise point of view. It is the heart of what we do at Tortoise. Drinks from 6.00pm, starts promptly at 6.30pm. If you are late to a ThinkIn you can ‘SlinkIn’! If you would like to contribute to this ThinkIn, let us know by emailing thinkin@tortoisemedia.com We film our Thinkins so we can watch them back, edit the best bits and share them with members who weren’t there in person. Members can find their ThinkIn booking code in My Tortoise, under My Membership.