Where the Other Half Lives

Rezensionen / Stimmen

'To feel secure people need good well maintained housing, where they know they can live without fear of having to leave. Our society has consistently failed to provide this. We are told the market will be the answer, but it isn't. This book will explain why, and point the way to a socially responsible economy' -- Ken Loach 'This book is a brilliant, compulsive and passionately written case for the continued importance of council housing' -- Mute Magazine 'At last, a cross-national treatment - theoretical as well as empirical - of how neoliberalism has impacted housing policies and programs, and their effects on us all' -- Chester Hartman, Director of Research at the Poverty & Race Research Action Council in Washington, DC and Adjunct Professor of Sociology at George Washington University. 'Provides a concise introduction to and a trenchant and impassioned critique of four decades of neoliberal housing policy; it challenges many of the invidious shibboleths of present-day development programmes, and begins the debate about alternatives based on the principles of equity and social justice' -- Professor Joe Doherty, Centre for Housing Research, University of St Andrews 'Forcing councils to privatise and failing both to build social housing on a big scale or regenerate the estates has been the worst failure of our Labour government. Sarah Glynn and her contributors demonstrate the neoliberal legacy behind this and show the damage it inflicted on society' -- Austin Mitchell MP, Chair of the House of Commons Council Housing Group This book demonstrates how neo-liberal policy makers have presented cities with a 'false choice' between degeneration .... It criticises the short-sightedness of policies of state-sponsored gentrification and the structural inequalities ... This is a very readable and robust account of recent urban policy and its critical edge will no doubt challenge and enlighten its readers. -- Professor Loretta Lees, Department of Geography in the School of Science and Public Policy, King's College London.