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Bringing Home the Housing Crisis
Stories from the Front Line of London’s Precarious Housing
By Mel Nowicki
Published
Apr 1, 2023Page count
152 pagesISBN
978-1447361862Dimensions
Imprint
Policy PressPublished
Apr 1, 2023Page count
152 pagesISBN
978-1447361855Dimensions
234 x 156 mmImprint
Policy PressPublished
Apr 1, 2023Page count
152 pagesISBN
978-1447361879Dimensions
Imprint
Policy PressOften 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 – it explores the ways in which legislative and policy changes dismantle people’s rights to secure, decent and affordable housing by framing them as undeserving. The book includes practical lessons for housing academics, activists and policymakers.
Mel Nowicki is a Senior Lecturer in Urban Geography at Oxford Brookes University.
Introduction
Creating a crisis: the politicisation of home
The criminalisation of home: section 144 and its impact on London’s squatters
‘’Just because I don’t own it, doesn’t mean it’s not mine!’’ The bedroom tax and diminishing rights to home
Temporary is the new permanent: precarity in the private rented sector and the rise of family homelessness
Fighting for home: activism and resistance in precarious times
Conclusion: Bringing home the housing crisis