Squalor

Daniel Renwick; Robbie Shilliam

doi:10.1017/9781788213899

British society is increasingly divided into the haves and the have-nots. Housing epitomizes this division with spiralling rents, exorbitant prices, lack of council provision, poorly maintained stock, and polluted cities with ever decreasing green space. Daniel Renwick and Robbie Shilliam provide a recent history of squalor culminating in the Grenfell Tower fire. In doing so they reveal a profound political failure to provide fair and just solutions to shelter - the most basic of human needs. Renwick and Shilliam argue that agents of change exist within those populations presently damned by a racist and class-riven system of housing provision.

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Frontmatter
pp i-iv

Contents
pp v-vi

Acknowledgements
pp vii-viii

1 - Introduction
pp 1-10

2 - A moral history of squalor
pp 11-28

3 - Housing policy and national reform
pp 29-44

4 - A postwar consensus?
pp 45-60

5 - Demolishing slums, building up
pp 61-76

6 - The struggle for the city
pp 77-92

7 - The Right to Buy
pp 93-108

8 - Organized negligence
pp 109-126

9 - Twenty-first century squalor
pp 127-144

10 - Social murder
pp 145-156

References
pp 157-163

Index
pp 164-168

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