1st Edition

The Tenants' Movement Resident involvement, community action and the contentious politics of housing

By Quintin Bradley Copyright 2014
200 Pages 10 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

200 Pages 10 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

200 Pages 10 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

The Tenants' Movement is both a history of tenant organization and mobilization, and a guide to understanding how the struggles of tenant organizers have come to shape housing policy today. Charting the history of tenant mobilization, and the rise of consumer movements in housing, it is one of the first cross-cultural, historical analyses of tenants’ organizations’ roles in housing policy.... Read more
Contents Chapter 1 The Tenants Movement Chapter 2 The Hidden History of Tenants Chapter 3 Power and Participation Chapter 4 Constructing a Tenant Voice Chapter 5 Tenant localism and democracy Chapter 6 Mobilising Tenants Chapter 7 Conclusion Appendix 1 Transcription Key Appendix 2 Focus Groups and Interviews References Index

Biography

Quintin Bradley is Senior Lecturer in Planning and Housing Studies at Leeds Metropolitan University, UK.

"[T]his book represents a rich and important contribution to the study of social housing governance."Housing Studies, Hal Pawson, University of New South Wales

"This book is definitely worth reading for academics interested in social movement theory and struggles for a decommodified housing system. Beyond that, housing activists from around the world can certainly benefit from the experience the English tenants’ movement has accumulated in decades of social struggles and now presented in a well-written and condensed form by Quintin Bradley."Sebastian Schipper, Bauhaus-Universitat Weimar, Germany