Built to Belong

“About This Book
This book was written to raise awareness of one number: the roughly thirty-five million homes the world needs to build every year — and is failing to build — simply to house the people who will otherwise go without adequate shelter. Behind that number sits a harder truth. After a century of extraordinary progress in almost every other field, mankind still cannot house its own people properly, and for the most part still builds the way it built in 1926.
But this is not a report, and it is not a manifesto. It is a story — or rather many stories — about people. Real people, in real situations: a five-year-old boy in a cold fisherman’s cottage on the south coast of England who grew up to spend more than forty years in construction; a civil engineer in London who earns a good salary and cannot afford a home; a mother in the slums of Manila whose son drew himself a window on cardboard because the room had none; a labourer in Riyadh sharing a room with five other men; a woman in Vienna who has never once, in forty-seven years, been afraid of losing her[…]”
 
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Built to Belong
Andrew J Bannister
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