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Author Hodkinson, Stuart, author

Title Safe as houses : private greed, political negligence and housing policy after Grenfell / Stuart Hodkinson
Published Manchester : Manchester University Press, 2019

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Description 1 online resource (xiv, 253 pages) : illustrations
Series Manchester capitalism
Manchester capitalism.
Summary 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.0Stuart Hodkinson has those answers. He has worked for the last decade with residents groups in council regeneration projects across London. As residents have been shifted out of 60s and 70s social housing to make way for higher rent paying newcomers, they have been promised a higher quality of housing. Councils have passed the responsibility for this housing to private consortia who amazingly have been allowed to self-regulate on quality and safety. Residents have been ignored for years on this and only now are we hearing the truth. Stuart will weave together his research on PFIs, regulation and resident action to tell the whole story of how Grenfell happened and how this could easily have happened in multiple locations across the country
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes Print version record
Subject Grenfell Tower -- Fire, 2017
Housing policy -- Great Britain
Public housing -- Management -- Contracting out -- Great Britain
Public housing -- Great Britain -- Design and construction -- Finance
POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Public Policy -- Social Policy.
LAW -- Housing & Urban Development.
Housing policy
Public housing -- Management -- Contracting out
Wohnungsbau
Stadtplanung
Sozialer Wohnungsbau
Logement social -- Grande-Bretagne.
Politique du logement -- Grande-Bretagne.
Incendies -- Grande-Bretagne.
Great Britain
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9781526154644
1526154641
9781526144713
1526144719