Bringing home the housing crisis : politics, precarity and domicide in austerity London / Mel Nowicki.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Nowicki, Mel, author.

Series:

Policy Press scholarship online.

Policy Press scholarship online

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Housing policy--Great Britain--History.

Housing policy.

Housing--Political aspects--Great Britain.

Housing.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (vi, 152 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Bristol, England : Policy Press, 2023.

Summary:

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.

Contents:

Front Cover

Bringing Home The Housing Crisis: Politics, Precarity and Domicide in Austerity London

Copyright information

Dedication

Table of contents

Acknowledgements

Introduction

Distinguishing housing from home

Legitimising domicide: enter the 'age of austerity'

Project research methods

Research location: focusing on London

Overview of the book

1 The politicisation of home

'Moving past the front stoop': critical geographies of home

Bringing housing studies home

Destroying the home: domicide and home unmaking

Domicide

Agents of domicide: stigma and precarity in housing policy

Lineages of home in neoliberal political rhetoric

New Labour, urban decay and the 'underclass'

Unravelling home in the Cameron era

Continuing the legacy of the moralised home: from Brexit to COVID-19

2 The bedroom tax and diminishing rights to home

Contextualising the bedroom tax: a brief history of social tenancy in the UK

Introducing the bedroom tax

From controversy to apathy: initial responses to the bedroom tax

Slow violences: the fear of eviction

Destroying a sense of home

Impacts on health, wellbeing and family life

Homeownership schemes: welfare for the middle classes?

Internalising domicide

3 Temporary is the new permanent: temporary accommodation policy and the rise of family homelessness

The rise of the private rented sector

The rise of family homelessness and temporary accommodation

Enter PLACE/Ladywell

Life in PLACE/Ladywell

"It's not for us": anxiety and the internalisation of housing precarity

Temporary as the new permanent

From purpose-built to the purposes of profit: temporary accommodation as big business

4 The criminalisation of home: section 144 and its impact on London's squatters.

The road to criminalisation: a brief history of squatting in the UK

Anti-squatter sentiment and the path to section 144

Eviction as the new normal

Making home in the face of forced eviction: Grow Heathrow

Forced eviction and securitisation

Section 144, mental health and wellbeing

The 'good squatter'

Normalising precarity, appropriating squatting: the rise of property guardianships

5 Fighting for home: activism and resistance in precarious times

Using law and policy as tools of resistance

Legally challenging the bedroom tax

Virtual legal spaces: the role of social media in legally challenging the bedroom tax

Finding other means: Discretionary Housing Payments and legal loopholes

Unionising the unregulated: legal challenges in the private rented sector

Legally challenging section 144

Invisible resistance

"I see myself as more of an occupier": reappropriation as resistance

Forced eviction as a method of resistance: the case of Focus E15

Making home in temporary accommodation: 'banal' resistance through material objects

Conclusion

Academic and policy contributions

The current landscape

When crisis becomes the norm

Final thoughts

Notes

References

Index.

Notes:

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 19 Jan 2024).

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9781447361893

144736189X

9781447361879

1447361873

9781447361886

1447361881

OCLC:

1377691392