Safe as houses : private greed, political negligence and housing policy after Grenfell / Stuart Hodkinson.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Hodkinson, Stuart, Author.

Series:

Manchester capitalism.

The Manchester capitalism book series

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Grenfell Tower (London, England)--Fire, 2017.

Grenfell Tower (London, England).

Public housing--Great Britain--Design and construction--Finance.

Public housing.

Public housing--Management--Contracting out--Great Britain.

Housing policy--Great Britain.

Housing policy.

Great Britain.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (184 pages).

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Manchester : Manchester University Press, [2019]

Summary:

"As the tragedy of the Grenfell tower fire has slowly revealed a shadowy background of outsourcing, private finance initiatives and a council turning a blind eye to health and safety concerns, many questions need answers.0Stuart Hodkinson has those answers. He has worked for the last decade with residents groups in council regeneration projects across London. As residents have been shifted out of 60s and 70s social housing to make way for higher rent paying newcomers, they have been promised a higher quality of housing. Councils have passed the responsibility for this housing to private consortia who amazingly have been allowed to self-regulate on quality and safety. Residents have been ignored for years on this and only now are we hearing the truth. Stuart will weave together his research on PFIs, regulation and resident action to tell the whole story of how Grenfell happened and how this could easily have happened in multiple locations across the country"

Contents:

Front matter

Dedication

Contents

List of boxes, figures and tables

Acknowledgements

List of abbreviations

Introduction

1 Privatisation and the death of public housing

2 Outsourcing on steroids

3 Partners for improvement? Corporate vandalism inIslington and Camden

4 Not fit for purpose

5 The accountability vacuum

6 Follow the money

7 After Grenfell

Appendix. List of formal interviews cited in the book

Index

Notes:

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

1-5261-3001-7

1-5261-5464-1

1-5261-2998-1

OCLC:

1158015842