Peter Apps

I was born into a city where housing was affordable. But I've grown up into one where it was not. What has gone wrong in London over the last 35 years? And where is it going in the future?

My new book, Homesick, tells that story. Out Sept 25 amazon.co.uk/Homesick-How-H…

The report into Hong Kong's Wang Fuk fire has been published - less than a year after the blaze which killed 168 residents.

It tells a damning story of private sector greed, public sector negligence, staggering incompetence and blatant corruption:

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Pretty grim stuff from an estate in South London where a housing association sold the homes to a property management company which is now attempting to push through evictions and convert the houses to HMOs

Bit of a grim conclusion to the Substack this week. With 50,000 heat deaths across Europe this summer (and more than 1,300 in London) we really need to start taking the risk of hot homes more seriously:

peteapps.substack.com/p/record-numbe…

I look a touch manic in the still for this video, but if you can get past that it was great to be invited onto @DoubleDownNews to talk about how we got into the housing mess we're in and where we're going in the future:

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