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Abdul Malik Ahad

Abdul Malik Ahad

CEO of Steve Biko Housing Association; community leader focused on racial justice, housing equity, and youth arts in Greater Manchester

Jun 23, 2026

21:07
It exacerbated them because the thing is, you know, in terms of,
21:09
OK, what are you going to do with the receipts that you get from selling those? If you don't reinvest, you know into building more homes yeah then in terms of the population is growing the housing need is growing yeah and in terms of the supply is doing so it's like simple economics supply and demand so coming back to you know what i do now so in terms of the reason why i went for state vehicle so i was looking at okay what do i do i can do a bit of interim and see off my you know, last however many years of my career.
21:35
But then I thought, no, if I see anything small, meaningful, it doesn't have to be black and minority, I think, based housing association, but it has to be local where I can do some work and see the changes that I can do.
21:48
Immediately.
21:49
Immediately.
21:49
And I suppose if not immediately, you know, I can see it through.
21:52
And I kind of like look for a few roles and then When Steve Biko came along, I mean, it's in the name.
24:56
Essentially what you've done is you've built a set of skills through lived experience totally relatable to the football story because essentially what you've said there is you're building community like you were when you were doing those five and seven side tournaments?

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