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History of the Housing Crisis (Hardcover)
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History of the Housing Crisis (Hardcover)
Series: Polemics
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This book presents a history of the struggle that has brought us to
the present crisis. The way housing was organised in mid-twentieth
century Britain did a better job of providing people with decent,
secure and affordable homes than the way it is ordered today. This
was not benevolently bestowed by some caring government but was won
through collective struggle. Council housing, rent controls and
regulated tenancies represented not only an important set of
material gains, but a recognition by the state that it had a
responsibility to house the people. During the 1980s these gains
were eroded and ever since successive governments from both
political camps have sought to remove the state from the provision
and regulation of housing. This transformation was also the result
of political struggle. This book demonstrates that housing was a
key vehicle through which neoliberal ideas were translated into
policy and practice. By every measure this experiment has been a
failure. Through an understanding of the range of strategies
deployed in the struggle for better housing, we can begin to work
out how to continue this fight today.
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