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Safe as houses
As the tragedy of the Grenfell Tower fire of 14 June 2017 has slowly revealed a shadowy background of outsourcing and deregulation, and a council turning a blind eye to health and safety concerns, many questions need answers. Stuart Hodkinson has those answers. Safe as Houses weaves together Stuart’s research over the last decade with residents’ groups in council regeneration projects across London to provide the first comprehensive account of how Grenfell happened and how it could easily have happened in multiple locations across the country. It draws on examples of unsafe housing either refurbished or built by private companies under the Private Finance Initiative (PFI) to show both the terrible human consequences of outsourcing and deregulation and how the PFI has enabled developers, banks and investors to profiteer from highly lucrative, taxpayer-funded contracts. The book also provides shocking testimonies of how councils and other public bodies have continuously sided with their private partners, doing everything in their power to ignore, deflect and even silence those who speak out. The book concludes that the only way to end the era of unsafe regeneration and housing provision is to end the disastrous regime of self-regulation. This means strengthening safety laws, creating new enforcement agencies independent of government and industry, and replacing PFI and similar models of outsourcing with a new model of public housing that treats the provision of shelter as ‘a social service’ democratically accountable to its residents.
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Freedomland
In Freedomland
, Annemarie H. Sammartino tells Co-op City's story from the
perspectives of those who built it and of the ordinary people who
made their homes in this monument to imperfect liberal ideals of
economic and social justice.
Located on the grounds of the former Freedomland
amusement park on the northeastern edge of the Bronx, Co-op City's
35 towers and 236 townhouses have been home to hundreds of
thousands of New Yorkers and is an icon visible to all traveling on
the east coast corridor.
In 1965, Co-op City was planned as the largest middle-class
housing development in the United States. It was intended as a
solution to the problem of affordable housing in America's largest
city. While Co-op City first appeared to be a huge success story
for integrated, middle-class housing, tensions would lead its
residents to organize the largest rent strike in American history.
In 1975, a coalition of shareholders took on New York State and,
against all odds, secured resident control. Much to the dismay of
many denizens of the complex, even this achievement did not halt
either rising costs or white flight. Nevertheless, after the
challenges of the 1970s and 1980s, the cooperative achieved a
hard-won stability as the twentieth century came to a close.
Freedomland chronicles the tumultuous first quarter
century of Co-op City's existence. Sammartino's narrative connects
planning, economic, and political history and the history of race
in America. The result is a new perspective on twentieth-century
New York City.
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At Home in Postwar France
After World War II, France embarked on a project of modernization, which included the development of the modern mass home.At Home in Postwar Franceexamines key groups of actors - state officials, architects, sociologists and tastemakers - arguing that modernizers looked to the home as a site for social engineering and nation-building; designers and advocates of the modern home contributed to the democratization of French society; and the French home of theTrente Glorieuses, as it was built and inhabited, was a hybrid product of architects', planners', and residents' understandings of modernity. This volume identifies the \"right to comfort\" as an invention of the postwar period and suggests that the modern mass home played a vital role in shaping new expectations for well-being and happiness.
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From Despair to Hope: Hope VI and the New Promise of Public Housing in America's Cities
Documents the evolution of HOPE VI, exploring what it accomplished replacing severely distressed public housing with mixed-income communities and where it fell short. Reveals how a program conceived to address a specific problem triggered a revolution in public housing and solidified principles that still guide urban policy today.
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The Routledge Handbook of Housing Policy and Planning
The Routledge Handbook of Housing Policy and Planning provides a comprehensive multidisciplinary overview of contemporary trends in housing studies, housing policies, planning for housing, and housing innovations in the United States, the United Kingdom, and Continental Europe. In 29 chapters, international scholars discuss aspects pertaining to the right to housing, inequality, homeownership, rental housing, social housing, senior housing, gentrification, cities and suburbs, and the future of housing policies.
This book is essential reading for students, policy analysts, policymakers, practitioners, and activists, as well as others interested in housing policy and planning.
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