What is it about?
In this short article, I looks at the class dynamic that underpin estate demolition. Drawing on my own personal experience and looking at the broader sociopolitical context, I examines how estate demolition is a policy failure that inflicts huge damage on London’s working-class communities.
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Why is it important?
Thousands of people across London are living under the looming threat of estate demolition. It's a pernicious, outdated and unnecessary practice that has driven thousands of people from the capital. Rarely, if ever, does class come into the conversation. As this article demonstrates the process of estate demolition is a deeply harmful one that comprehensively fails to deliver for the increasingly large population of people that are being alienated by Britain's housing crisis.
Perspectives
I hope this article adds a different perspective to the current debate around the housing crisis in London. For far too long people living under the threat of demolition have been ignored and the underlying economic justifications for demolition have gone unchallenged. Hopefully this article surfaces some of these issues and offers a window into the lived reality experienced by the many thousands of people living on London's post-war council estates that are under threat of losing their homes.
David Utley-Williams
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This page is a summary of: How estate demolition is destroying London’s working-class communities, Journal of Class & Culture, April 2023, Intellect,
DOI: 10.1386/jclc_00024_1.
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