Often portrayed as an apolitical space, this book demonstrates that home is in fact a highly political concept, with a range of groups in society excluded from a ‘right to home’ under current UK policies. Drawing on resident interviews and analysis of political and media attitudes across three case studies – the criminalisation of squatting, the bedroom tax and family homelessness – the book explores the ways in which legislative and policy changes dismantle people’s rights to secure, decent and affordable housing by framing them as undeserving. -- Provided by publisher.
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Nowicki, Mel
School of Law and Social Sciences
Year of publication: 2023Date of RADAR deposit: 2023-09-06
"This is a post-peer-review, pre-copy edited version of an extract published in Bringing home the housing crisis / Mel Nowicki (Policy Press, 2023). Details of the definitive published version and how to purchase it are available online at: https://policy.bristoluniversitypress.co.uk/bringing-home-the-housing-crisis."