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All across Ireland, thousands of people are living in apartments and houses with serious fire safety and structural defects. Some of these have made the news, many more have not. Defects: Living with the Legacy of the Celtic Tiger tells the horrifying story of these people and how they came to be trapped in dangerous homes. In this follow-up to Home, his hugely popular and acclaimed manifesto for public housing reform, Eoin Ó Broin reveals how decisions made by successive governments from the 1960s to the 1990s led to an alarmingly light touch building control regime. This regime, when ...

“Vivir de prestado es una etnografía original, fina y sensible de las vidas precarias de los residentes de un complejo habitacional creado por el Estado, en la que las deudas y el derecho actúan como los dos grandes operadores de la vida social. Su escritura cuidada y meticulosa nos transporta por cada detalle del día a día de familias que transitan por oficinas públicas, cuidan su edificio, emprenden pequeños e informales trabajos que generan magros ingresos, realizan transacciones de bienes y servicios entre vecinos y parientes, y una larga lista de prácticas cotidianas que ...

Hi. My name is Peter LeGrove and while I was teaching English in Hanoi, Vietnam, I had an opportunity to try and help a homeless person try and better himself. I have had no experience at all with anything to do with homeless people. The closest I got, was when I was nearly down and out myself, with very little money coming in. I was trying to make enough money to live on, selling stuff in the street markets. At those times I used to eat the free lunch at the church. Here I was surrounded by every homeless derelict from miles around. But they were good people and they looked after each ...