Safe As Houses - Private Greed, Political Negligence and Housing Policy After Grenfell

Informationen zum Autor Stuart Hodkinson is Associate Professor in Critical Urban Geography at the University of Leeds Klappentext 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. Zusammenfassung 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. -- . Inhaltsverzeichnis 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 housing2 Outsourcing on steroids: regeneration meets the Private Finance Initiative3 Partners for improvement? Corporate vandalism in Islington and Camden4 Not fit for purpose: the Myatts Field North PFI horror show5 The accountability vacuum6 Follow the money: who profits and how7 After Grenfell: safe and secure homes for all Appendix 1 List of formal interviews cited in book

Product details

• Authors: Stuart Hodkinson, Hodkinson Stuart
• Assisted by: Karel Williams (Editor)
• Publisher: Manchester University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.05.2019
• EAN: 9781526141866
• ISBN: 978-1-5261-4186-6
• No. of pages: 272
• Series: Manchester Capitalism; Manchester Capitalism Mup; Manchester Capitalism; Manchester Capitalism Mup
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Education > Social education, social work; Social sciences, law, business > Social sciences (general); SOCIAL SCIENCE / Human Geography, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Political Economy, LAW / Housing & Urban Development, Public Administration, Political Economy, Human Geography, Urban communities, Settlement, urban and rural geography, Housing & homelessness, Housing and homelessness, Urban communities / city life, Public administration / Public policy