Full Description
As the tragedy of the Grenfell tower fire has slowly revealed a shadowy background of outsourcing, private finance initiatives and a council turning a blind eye to health and safety concerns, many questions need answers.
Stuart Hodkinson has those answers. He has worked for the last decade with residents groups in council regeneration projects across London. As residents have been shifted out of 60s and 70s social housing to make way for higher rent paying newcomers, they have been promised a higher quality of housing. Councils have passed the responsibility for this housing to private consortia who amazingly have been allowed to self-regulate on quality and safety. Residents have been ignored for years on this and only now are we hearing the truth. Stuart will weave together his research on PFIs, regulation and resident action to tell the whole story of how Grenfell happened and how this could easily have happened in multiple locations across the country.
Contents
List of boxes, figures and tables
Acknowledgements
List of abbreviations
Introduction: Grenfell and the return of 'social murder'
1 Privatisation and the death of public housing
2 Outsourcing on steroids: regeneration meets the Private Finance Initiative
3 Partners for improvement? Corporate vandalism in Islington and Camden
4 Not fit for purpose: the Myatts Field North PFI horror show
5 The accountability vacuum
6 Follow the money: who profits and how
7 After Grenfell: safe and secure homes for all
Appendix 1 List of formal interviews cited in book
