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Housing was at the heart of the financial collapse, and our economy is now precariously reliant on the housing market. This is the defining issue of our times.
Tracing how we got to our current crisis and how housing has come to reflect class and wealth in Britain, Danny Dorling shows that the solution to our problems – rising homelessness, a generation priced out of home ownership – is not, as is widely assumed, building more homes. Inequality, he argues, is what we really need to overcome.

Danny Dorling is Halford Mackinder professor of human geography at Oxford University. He is the author of a number of books including All That Is Solid, and, most recently Injustice: Why Social Inequality Still Persists