A review by stabilesero
All The Houses I've Ever Lived In: Finding Home in a System that Fails Us by Kieran Yates
challenging
informative
inspiring
reflective
medium-paced
5.0
Working in Homelessness, I think I have a bias love for books like these.
Yates has created a compelling and frustrating book around the UK housing system; illuminating it's flaws whilst bringing us hope for what makes a house a home, what we can do to move housing forward and where we can start. I applaud Yates for saying what many of us want to say to our local authorities and the government when being faced with the forever-enraging "stop buying avocado toast and watching Netflix, then you'll be able to buy a house."Bite. Me.
This book will get heavily annotated once it's done it's rounds with my colleagues; it will bring a lot of conversation to the table.
Yates has created a compelling and frustrating book around the UK housing system; illuminating it's flaws whilst bringing us hope for what makes a house a home, what we can do to move housing forward and where we can start. I applaud Yates for saying what many of us want to say to our local authorities and the government when being faced with the forever-enraging "stop buying avocado toast and watching Netflix, then you'll be able to buy a house."
This book will get heavily annotated once it's done it's rounds with my colleagues; it will bring a lot of conversation to the table.