Bringing Home the Housing Crisis

Politics, Precarity and Domicide in Austerity London
1. Auflage 2023
ISBN: 978-1-4473-6186-2
Verlag: Bristol University Press

Buch, Englisch, 158 Seiten, Format (B × H): 158 mm x 229 mm, Gewicht: 259 g

Often portrayed as an apolitical space, this book demonstrates that home is in fact a highly political concept, with a range of groups in society excluded from a ‘right to home’ under current UK policies.

Drawing on resident interviews and analysis of political and media attitudes across three case studies – the criminalisation of squatting, the bedroom tax and family homelessness – the book explores the ways in which legislative and policy changes dismantle people’s rights to secure, decent and affordable housing by framing them as undeserving.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Nowicki, Mel

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Stadt- und Regionalsoziologie
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Soziale Ungleichheit, Armut, Rassismus
• Geowissenschaften Geographie | Raumplanung Regional- & Raumplanung Stadtplanung, Kommunale Planung

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction

1. The politicisation of home

2. The bedroom tax and diminishing rights to home

3. Temporary is the new permanent: temporary accommodation policy and the rise of family homelessness

4. The criminalisation of home: section 144 and its impact on London’s squatters

5. Fighting for home: activism and resistance in precarious times

Conclusion

Über Autor(innen)

Mel Nowicki is Reader in Urban Geography at Oxford Brookes University.