How to Make a City into a Firetrap: Relations of Land and Property in the UK's Cladding Scandal

IF 3.6 1区 社会学 Q1 GEOGRAPHY
Antipode Pub Date : 2023-07-28 DOI:10.1111/anti.12970
Callum Ward, Frances Brill
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Despite legislation banning combustible cladding materials after the 2017 Grenfell fire, at least 10,000 buildings were still awaiting remediation in 2022. This is in large part because fragmented ownership and management structures alongside the specificities of British property law produced a situation in which individual apartment owners (leaseholders) were liable for the costs of remediation rather than those who own the buildings (freeholders) or the developers who built them. Faced with unaffordable remediation bills, leaseholders became stuck in uninsurable, unsellable, potentially fire-prone units. Through the case of a London housing block, we trace the relationship between the structure of landed property, value extraction, and the distribution of risk to understand how a significant portion of the UK's housing stock have remained firetraps. We argue that institutionalised value grabbing not only created the conditions of social murder but also became an obstacle to remediation, resulting in a politically charged “asset class struggle” over the way in which the structure of housing property and its capitalisation mediates social harm.

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如何使城市成为火灾陷阱:英国覆层丑闻中的土地和财产关系
尽管在 2017 年格伦费尔大火后立法禁止使用可燃覆层材料,但到 2022 年,仍有至少 10,000 栋建筑在等待修复。这在很大程度上是因为分散的所有权和管理结构以及英国房地产法的特殊性造成了这样一种局面:个人公寓业主(租赁人)而不是建筑物的所有者(永久产权人)或建造这些建筑物的开发商要承担修复费用。面对难以承受的修缮费用,租户们被困在无法投保、无法出售、可能引发火灾的单元房中。通过一个伦敦住宅区的案例,我们追溯了土地财产的结构、价值攫取和风险分布之间的关系,从而了解英国相当一部分住房是如何成为火灾陷阱的。我们认为,制度化的价值攫取不仅创造了社会谋杀的条件,也成为了补救的障碍,导致了一场充满政治色彩的 "资产阶级斗争",争论的焦点是住房财产结构及其资本化如何调解社会危害。
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期刊介绍: Antipode has published dissenting scholarship that explores and utilizes key geographical ideas like space, scale, place, borders and landscape. It aims to challenge dominant and orthodox views of the world through debate, scholarship and politically-committed research, creating new spaces and envisioning new futures. Antipode welcomes the infusion of new ideas and the shaking up of old positions, without being committed to just one view of radical analysis or politics.
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