Stuart Hodkinson

Safe as houses

Private greed, political negligence and housing policy after Grenfell

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Produktbeschreibung

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. Stuart Hodkinson has those answers. -- .

Produktdetails

• Manchester Capitalism
• Verlag: Manchester University Press
• Seitenzahl: 268
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Mai 2019
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 209mm x 132mm x 18mm
• Gewicht: 380g
• ISBN-13: 9781526141866
• ISBN-10: 1526141868
• Artikelnr.: 54811153

Autorenporträt

Stuart Hodkinson is Associate Professor in Critical Urban Geography at the University of Leeds

Inhaltsangabe

List of boxes, figures and tables Acknowledgements List of abbreviations
Introduction: Grenfell and the return of 'social murder' 1 Privatisation
and the death of public housing 2 Outsourcing on steroids: regeneration
meets the Private Finance Initiative 3 Partners for improvement? Corporate
vandalism in Islington and Camden 4 Not fit for purpose: the Myatts Field
North PFI horror show 5 The accountability vacuum 6 Follow the money: who
profits and how 7 After Grenfell: safe and secure homes for all Appendix 1
List of formal interviews cited in book