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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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"In this compelling history of squalor's political and racial construction, Renwick and Shilliam debunk right-wing attempts to cast today's squalid living conditions forced on many across the UK as a matter of morality and show them to be one of mortality. This is perhaps most poignantly exposed in their discussion of the Grenfell Fire, a touchpoint throughout the book. A truly significant contrib
Gurminder Bhambra, Professor of Postcolonial and Decolonial Studies, University of Sussex
"A thought-provoking, foundational history of housing policy and development within the United Kingdom... a must in the academic arsenal of an undergraduate or postgraduate student."
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