Edinburgh University Press Squalor

British society is increasingly divided into the haves and the have-nots.Housing epitomizes this division with spiralling rents, exorbitant prices, lack of council provision, poorly maintained stock, and polluted cities with ever decreasing green space.Daniel Renwick and Robbie Shilliam provide a recent history of squalor culminating in the Grenfell Tower fire.In doing so they reveal a profound political failure to provide fair and just solutions to shelter – the most basic of human needs.Renwick and Shilliam argue that agents of change exist within those populations presently damned by a racist and class-riven system of housing provision.