Local Housing Campaigns

August 15, 2009 17:00

Published: August 07, 2009 16:50 by Housmans Bookshop |

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Housing Crisis

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Housmans – radical booksellers since 1945 
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'Local Housing Campaigns in Context’ 
with Sarah Glynn 

Saturday 15th August – 5pm till 6.30pm 
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Sarah Glynn will be drawing on her recent book, ‘Where the Other Half Lives: lower income housing in a neoliberal world’, to analyse the impact of three decades of neoliberal economic policies that have regarded houses not primarily as homes for living in, but rather as a source of profit. 
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From Hackney to Hammersmith, tenants and activists have been fighting a prolonged battle against what has become a persistent assault on the housing and housing standards of those on below average incomes. For that battle to have any chance of success it is important to know what we are up against. 

In this talk, Sarah Glynn will be drawing on her recent book, ‘Where the Other Half Lives: lower income housing in a neoliberal world’, to analyse the impact of three decades of neoliberal economic policies that have regarded houses not primarily as homes for living in, but rather as a source of profit. And she will look at how this has resulted in crippling personal debt, rundown social housing, homelessness, mass demolition, unaffordability and now economic crisis. 

Sarah is a campaigner as well as an academic and architect, and her interest in understanding what is happening is in order to provide the tools to change it. Her book looks beyond the impact of current top-down policies to examine grass-roots campaigns for better housing and explore possibilities for a different approach to this most fundamental of human needs. 

Part of Housmans’ ‘London’s Burning’ series – see http://www.housmans.com/events.php 

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Event information 

Saturday 15th August – 5pm till 6.30pm 
Housmans Bookshop 
5 Caledonian Road 
King's Cross 
London N1 9DX 
Tel: 020 7837 4473 

Free entry 
Nearest tube: King's Cross 

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