The Housing Monster

THE HOUSING MONSTER and HOUSING CRISIS?

Two recent publications focusing on housing.

From Prole.info

The Housing Monster takes one seemingly simple everyday thing—a house—and looks at the social relations that surround and determine it. Starting with the construction site and the physical building of houses, the book slowly builds and links more and more issues together: from gentrification and city politics to gender roles and identity politics, from subcontracting and speculation to union contracts and negotiation, from intensely personal thoughts and interactions to large-scale political and economic forces. What starts as a look at housing questions, broadens into a critique of capitalism as a whole. (152 pages, first printing in 2012)

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From Corporate Watch

Housing Crisis?

This double issue of the Corporate Watch Magazine is about housing: a story of escalating privatisation and corporate gains at the expense of hard won rights for social housing; a story the intricacies of which are largely unknown. The title has a question mark after 'crisis' because, even though it's a crisis for most people, for housing corporations it's a time for profit-making as this magazine will hopefully show.

http://www.corporatewatch.org.uk/download.php?id=124