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Product details
- ISBN 9781788161282
- Weight: 280g
- Dimensions: 128 x 196mm
- Publication Date: 02 Mar 2023
- Publisher: Profile Books Ltd
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Paperback
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'Fascinating ... Tenants should be compulsory reading for every politician' - PANDORA SYKES
'Excellent' - NOVARA MEDIA
'Important heartbreaking and shocking ... this is a vital read.' THE TIMES
ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF 2022 THE TIMES, DAZED, FINANCIAL TIMES, METRO, EVENING STANDARD, REFINERY29, COSMOPOLITAN
In twenty-first-century Britain, unsafe homes are a matter of life and death.
Award-winning journalist Vicky Spratt traces decades of bad decisions to show how the British dream of secure housing for all has withered. This fierce and moving account tells the stories of those on the frontline, illuminating the ways this national emergency cuts across the country, where the safety net of social housing has unravelled in exchange for profit, and communities have been devastated beyond recognition.
Everybody deserves the chance of a safe and stable home, and this urgent, ground-breaking book leads the way.
Vicky Spratt is an award-winning journalist whose work regularly shapes public policy. Her 2016 campaign 'Make Renting Fair' led to letting fees in England and Wales being banned, and she has spoken at political conferences, all-party parliamentary groups, and panels across the country on the issue of housing. Currently the i Paper's Housing Correspondent, she has appeared on BBC News, Newsnight, Woman's Hour and NTS Radio. In 2020, she was nominated as Journalist of the Year at the Drum Awards for Online Media, and in 2021 her reporting on Britain's housing emergency saw her shortlisted for a British Journalism Award.
