Big capital : who is London for? / Anna Minton.
By: Minton, Anna [author.]
.Publisher: UK : Penguin Books, 2017Description: xvi, 160 pages : illustrations, maps.Content type: text | still image | cartographic image Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 9780141984995; 0141984996.Subject(s): Housing -- England -- London | Housing policy -- England -- LondonDDC classification: 363.509421 Summary: "London is facing the worst housing crisis in modern times, with knock-on effects for the rest of the UK. Despite the desperate shortage of housing, tens, perhaps hundreds of thousands of affordable homes are being pulled down, replaced by luxury apartments aimed at foreign investors. In this ideological war, housing is no longer considered a public good. Instead, only market solutions are considered - and these respond to the needs of global capital, rather than the needs of ordinary people. In politically uncertain times, the housing crisis has become a key driver creating and fuelling the inequalities of a divided nation. Anna Minton cuts through the complexities, jargon and spin to give a clear-sighted account of how we got into this mess and how we can get out of it."-- Provided by publisher.
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| 363.50941 WAL The rent trap : | 363.50941 WIL Directions in housing policy : | 363.509410905 SPR Tenants : the people on the frontline of Britain's housing emergency / | 363.509421 MIN Big capital : | 363.580941 PAW After council housing : | 363.580941 SEA History of the housing crisis / | 363.5830941 HAL Home truths : |
"London is facing the worst housing crisis in modern times, with knock-on effects for the rest of the UK. Despite the desperate shortage of housing, tens, perhaps hundreds of thousands of affordable homes are being pulled down, replaced by luxury apartments aimed at foreign investors. In this ideological war, housing is no longer considered a public good. Instead, only market solutions are considered - and these respond to the needs of global capital, rather than the needs of ordinary people. In politically uncertain times, the housing crisis has become a key driver creating and fuelling the inequalities of a divided nation. Anna Minton cuts through the complexities, jargon and spin to give a clear-sighted account of how we got into this mess and how we can get out of it."-- Provided by publisher.