Bringing Home the Housing Crisis
Mel Nowicki, Nowicki
Politics, Precarity and Domicide in Austerity London
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Release Date: 27/04/2023
Politics, Precarity and Domicide in Austerity London 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.
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.