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- ISBN978-1-919197-23-4
- EAN9781919197234
- Date de parution06/10/2025
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- ÉditeurJoe Carpenter
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A powerful, eye-opening account of life on the frontlines of Britain's broken social housing system. Over 13 years and more than 14, 000 repairs, Joe Carpenter has seen it all - mould-covered walls, leaking ceilings, unsafe homes, and the human toll behind every broken fixture. In Middle Ground, he pulls back the curtain on a system in crisis and the people trapped inside it. From securing flats overtaken by gangs to working in a block where a tenant's body lay undiscovered for over two years, Carpenter shares the stories you rarely hear in the news, but need to.
Part memoir, part exposé, and part call to action, Middle Ground reveals how targets, call centres, and distant decision-makers have replaced care, safety, and community. Yet it also highlights the tenants, tradespeople, and frontline staff still fighting for dignity, and offers a practical blueprint for rebuilding the system from the ground up. Essential reading for anyone living in, working within, or trying to understand the reality of social housing today.
A scathing firsthand account of the systemic failures associated with social housing repair and maintenance. Professor Loretta Lees, Director of the Initiative on Cities at Boston University; ex-Chair of the London Housing Panel. A rare but vital frontline perspective on social housing. John Boughton, author of Municipal Dreams. Compelling stories of incompetence and chaos, from the inside of a broken Housing Association system.
Danny Dorling, author of All That is Solid. This account of a tradesperson's life spent trying to literally patch up a dysfunctional system is a thoughtful and very timely corrective to a debate often carried out in the abstract. Owen Hatherley, Writer. Joe Carpenter's brilliant book 'Middle Ground' reveals the Kafkaesque world of social housing repairs and maintenance from the insider perspective of someone who's spent years working on the frontline of an all-too-often failing system. Paul Watt, author of 'Estate Regeneration and Its Discontents: Public Housing, Place and Inequality in London' (Policy Press, 2021).
Joe Carpenter shows how squalor, ill-health and despair follow universally for those who live in housing association owned properties, and he creates a compelling picture of the outcomes of systemic failure in housing policy. Dr Alison Bancroft, SHAC (Social Housing Action Campaign).
Part memoir, part exposé, and part call to action, Middle Ground reveals how targets, call centres, and distant decision-makers have replaced care, safety, and community. Yet it also highlights the tenants, tradespeople, and frontline staff still fighting for dignity, and offers a practical blueprint for rebuilding the system from the ground up. Essential reading for anyone living in, working within, or trying to understand the reality of social housing today.
A scathing firsthand account of the systemic failures associated with social housing repair and maintenance. Professor Loretta Lees, Director of the Initiative on Cities at Boston University; ex-Chair of the London Housing Panel. A rare but vital frontline perspective on social housing. John Boughton, author of Municipal Dreams. Compelling stories of incompetence and chaos, from the inside of a broken Housing Association system.
Danny Dorling, author of All That is Solid. This account of a tradesperson's life spent trying to literally patch up a dysfunctional system is a thoughtful and very timely corrective to a debate often carried out in the abstract. Owen Hatherley, Writer. Joe Carpenter's brilliant book 'Middle Ground' reveals the Kafkaesque world of social housing repairs and maintenance from the insider perspective of someone who's spent years working on the frontline of an all-too-often failing system. Paul Watt, author of 'Estate Regeneration and Its Discontents: Public Housing, Place and Inequality in London' (Policy Press, 2021).
Joe Carpenter shows how squalor, ill-health and despair follow universally for those who live in housing association owned properties, and he creates a compelling picture of the outcomes of systemic failure in housing policy. Dr Alison Bancroft, SHAC (Social Housing Action Campaign).
A powerful, eye-opening account of life on the frontlines of Britain's broken social housing system. Over 13 years and more than 14, 000 repairs, Joe Carpenter has seen it all - mould-covered walls, leaking ceilings, unsafe homes, and the human toll behind every broken fixture. In Middle Ground, he pulls back the curtain on a system in crisis and the people trapped inside it. From securing flats overtaken by gangs to working in a block where a tenant's body lay undiscovered for over two years, Carpenter shares the stories you rarely hear in the news, but need to.
Part memoir, part exposé, and part call to action, Middle Ground reveals how targets, call centres, and distant decision-makers have replaced care, safety, and community. Yet it also highlights the tenants, tradespeople, and frontline staff still fighting for dignity, and offers a practical blueprint for rebuilding the system from the ground up. Essential reading for anyone living in, working within, or trying to understand the reality of social housing today.
A scathing firsthand account of the systemic failures associated with social housing repair and maintenance. Professor Loretta Lees, Director of the Initiative on Cities at Boston University; ex-Chair of the London Housing Panel. A rare but vital frontline perspective on social housing. John Boughton, author of Municipal Dreams. Compelling stories of incompetence and chaos, from the inside of a broken Housing Association system.
Danny Dorling, author of All That is Solid. This account of a tradesperson's life spent trying to literally patch up a dysfunctional system is a thoughtful and very timely corrective to a debate often carried out in the abstract. Owen Hatherley, Writer. Joe Carpenter's brilliant book 'Middle Ground' reveals the Kafkaesque world of social housing repairs and maintenance from the insider perspective of someone who's spent years working on the frontline of an all-too-often failing system. Paul Watt, author of 'Estate Regeneration and Its Discontents: Public Housing, Place and Inequality in London' (Policy Press, 2021).
Joe Carpenter shows how squalor, ill-health and despair follow universally for those who live in housing association owned properties, and he creates a compelling picture of the outcomes of systemic failure in housing policy. Dr Alison Bancroft, SHAC (Social Housing Action Campaign).
Part memoir, part exposé, and part call to action, Middle Ground reveals how targets, call centres, and distant decision-makers have replaced care, safety, and community. Yet it also highlights the tenants, tradespeople, and frontline staff still fighting for dignity, and offers a practical blueprint for rebuilding the system from the ground up. Essential reading for anyone living in, working within, or trying to understand the reality of social housing today.
A scathing firsthand account of the systemic failures associated with social housing repair and maintenance. Professor Loretta Lees, Director of the Initiative on Cities at Boston University; ex-Chair of the London Housing Panel. A rare but vital frontline perspective on social housing. John Boughton, author of Municipal Dreams. Compelling stories of incompetence and chaos, from the inside of a broken Housing Association system.
Danny Dorling, author of All That is Solid. This account of a tradesperson's life spent trying to literally patch up a dysfunctional system is a thoughtful and very timely corrective to a debate often carried out in the abstract. Owen Hatherley, Writer. Joe Carpenter's brilliant book 'Middle Ground' reveals the Kafkaesque world of social housing repairs and maintenance from the insider perspective of someone who's spent years working on the frontline of an all-too-often failing system. Paul Watt, author of 'Estate Regeneration and Its Discontents: Public Housing, Place and Inequality in London' (Policy Press, 2021).
Joe Carpenter shows how squalor, ill-health and despair follow universally for those who live in housing association owned properties, and he creates a compelling picture of the outcomes of systemic failure in housing policy. Dr Alison Bancroft, SHAC (Social Housing Action Campaign).