Homesick - How Housing Broke London and How to Fix It

What - and who - is a city for?

About the author

Peter Apps is an award-winning journalist and Deputy Editor at Inside Housing. He broke a story on the dangers of combustible cladding thirty-four days before the Grenfell Fire. He has not stopped reporting on this national tragedy since, and his book on the disaster, Show Me the Bodies, won the Orwell Prize for Political writing. He lives in London.

Product details

• Authors: Peter Apps, Apps Peter
• Publisher: Oneworld
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Release: 06.01.2026
• EAN: 9781836430360
• ISBN: 978-1-83643-036-0
• No. of pages: 352
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Education > Social education, social work; Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political science and political administration; London, Greater London, POLITICAL SCIENCE / General, Central London, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Poverty & Homelessness, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / Urban, Social Mobility, Poverty & unemployment, United Kingdom, Great Britain, Social discrimination & inequality, British Isles, Social classes, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Social Classes & Economic Disparity, Urban communities, Municipal / city government, Housing & homelessness, Poverty and precarity, Housing and homelessness, Welfare & benefit systems, Welfare and benefit systems, Regional government, Urban communities / city life