Bringing Home the Housing Crisis

Politics, Precarity and Domicide in Austerity London

Mel Nowicki (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

158 Seiten

2023
Policy Press (Verlag)
978-1-4473-6186-2 (ISBN)

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Often portrayed as an apolitical space, this book demonstrates that home is in fact a highly political concept. This book explores the legislative changes dismantling vulnerable groups' rights to decent and affordable housing.

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.

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

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

Erscheinungsdatum	28.04.2023
Zusatzinfo	Not illustrated
Sprache	englisch
Themenwelt	Naturwissenschaften ► Geowissenschaften ► Geografie / Kartografie
Themenwelt	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie
ISBN-10	1-4473-6186-5 / 1447361865
ISBN-13	978-1-4473-6186-2 / 9781447361862
Zustand	Neuware