Publication: Reach Homes - A Critical Extension of Dwelling
| dc.contributor.author | Holden, Sam | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2023-07-07T06:37:34Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2023-07-07T06:37:34Z | |
| dc.date.issued | 2019 | |
| dc.description.abstract | This paper formalises a nine month engagement with REACH Homes, a small startup that is testing decommodified modes of construction, non-monetary forms of tenure, reusing construction waste, and alternative methods of land acquisition to critique and ultimately overcome the housing problem in the UK - from within. The purpose of this paper is twofold, firstly I will situate REACH within the housing crisis through a brief history of UK policies, whilst setting REACH apart from other solutions that call for a rejuvenation of public housing. Secondly I will demonstrate REACH’s praxis through a selection of working examples that I have either been actively involved in or visited. These points allow me to argue that REACH reveals a holistic method for combatting the housing crisis which stops profit being extracted further up, or down, the supply chain; this holistic method is rarely being explored within housing activism. | |
| dc.description.version | publishedVersion | |
| dc.identifier.isbn | 978-88-99243-93-7 | |
| dc.identifier.pageNumber | 2117-2127 | |
| dc.identifier.uri | https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14235/361 | |
| dc.language.iso | en | |
| dc.publisher | AESOP | |
| dc.source | Planning for Transition – book of proceedings 31; 2 | en |
| dc.subject | Decommodification | |
| dc.subject | Affordable Housing | |
| dc.subject | Alternative Modes of Construction | |
| dc.title | Reach Homes - A Critical Extension of Dwelling | |
| dc.type | Article | |
| dspace.entity.type | Publication | en |