Policy Press

Bringing Home the Housing Crisis

Politics, Precarity and Domicide in Austerity London

By Mel Nowicki

Published

Apr 27, 2023

Page count

158 pages

ISBN

978-1447361862

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Policy Press

Published

Apr 27, 2023

Page count

158 pages

ISBN

978-1447361855

Dimensions

234 x 156 mm

Imprint

Policy Press

Published

Apr 27, 2023

Page count

158 pages

ISBN

978-1447361879

Dimensions

Imprint

Policy Press

Published

Apr 27, 2023

Page count

158 pages

ISBN

978-1447361879

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Policy Press
Bringing Home the Housing Crisis

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