Law and the Precarious Home

Helen Carr is Professor of Law at Kent Law School.Brendan Edgeworth is Professor of Law at the University of New South Wales.Caroline Hunter is Professor of Law at York Law School.

• 1. Introducing Precarisation: Contemporary Understandings of Law and the Insecure Home Helen Carr, Brendan Edgeworth and Caroline HunterPart I: Understanding Precarisation2. Precarious Homes: The Sharing Continuum Sarah Blandy3. Property, Well-being, and Home: Positive Psychology and Property Law’s Foundations Nestor M DavidsonPart II: Rental Security4. The ‘Affordable Alternative to Renting’: Property Guardians and Legal Dimensions of Housing PrecariousnessCaroline Hunter and Jed Meers5. Public Housing Insecurity in New South Wales: An Historical Overview (1971–2014) Brendan Edgeworth6. The Tenant’s Home and the Landlord’s Property—The Polish Struggle to Achieve a Balance of Rights Magdalena HabdasPart III: The Home and Governmental Precarisation7. Law and the Precarious Home: A Case Study of Thermal Inefficiency in English Homes Helen Carr8. Governing Risk and Uncertainty: Financialisation and the Regulatory Framework of Housing Associations Richard Goulding9. Safe and Sound: Precariousness, Compartmentation and Death at Home Edward Kirton-DarlingPart IV: Global/Local Precariousness10. The UK as a Precarious Home Richard Warren11. Precarious Home and Institutional Ambiguity in China’s Urbanisation Ting Xu and Wei Gong12. On Shaky Ground: Homes as Socio-Legal Spaces in a Post-Earthquake Environment Ann Dupuis, Suzanne Vallance and David ThornsPart V: Resistance and Strategies13. Precarity and Defi ance in Temporary Accommodation: The King Hill Hostel Campaign, 1965–66 Laura Binger14. Responding to the Precarisation of Housing: A Case Study of PAH Barcelona Gabriele D’Adda, Lucia Delgado and Eduard Sala15. Returning Home? Danie Brand

[T]he editors are to be commended on drawing together legal academics across jurisdictions and subject areas to contribute to this diverse collection which makes a considerable contribution to the literature. The contributions shed light on the complex, highly contingent role which the law plays in contributing to security or precarity of the home.