Homesick: How Housing Broke London and How to Fix It

Synopsis

In Homesick, award-winning journalist Peter Apps unpicks how London’s housing landscape has shifted beyond recognition. Four decades ago, builders and nurses could afford family homes, social housing was plentiful, and private renters had long-term security. Today, rents have soared, communities have fractured, and home ownership feels out of reach for most.

Through the lives of ordinary Londoners, Apps unpicks the political and economic forces behind the crisis, and asks what happens when a generation of renters retires, or when climate change pushes a fragile system to breaking point.

Urgent and empathetic, Homesick also offers a measure of optimism: showing how London could once again become a place of permanence, safety and opportunity.