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Often portrayed as an apolitical space, this book demonstrates that home is in fact a highly political concept, with a range of groups in society excluded from a 'right to home' under current UK policies. Drawing on resident interviews and analysis of political and media attitudes across three case studies - the criminalisation of squatting, the bedroom tax, and family homelessness - it explores the ways in which legislative and policy changes dismantle people's rights to secure, decent and affordable housing by framing them as undeserving. The book includes practical lessons for housing academics, activists and policymakers.

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9781447361862

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"""This is an important book which provides a passionate, critical focus on the neoliberal governance of housing. The book clearly shows the punitive and systematic nature of contemporary policies."" Tony Manzi, Sheffield Hallam University"

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Mel Nowicki is a Senior Lecturer in Urban Geography at Oxford Brookes University.

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