The home where our hopes and dreams play out is at the heart many vital political questions
Housing is more than bricks and mortar. Feeling at Home grapples with the practical and emotional questions of housing - domestic labour, privacy, security, ownership, and health. Is it possible to imagine success without home ownership? Alva Gotby shows that solving the housing crisis is about much more than housing stock. It means revolutionising our everyday lives and labours.
"Gotby is good at unpicking the contradictory positions of the Left and is great at observing the peculiarly British subplot in this global narrative ... The stratagems in this book put rational logic and utopia back in the mix." - Frieze
"A radical and refreshingly thoughtful study of housing, its effects on health and wellbeing, and the extent to which a home can dictate the quality of our lives." - Top Ten Reads for January 2025
"Calmly radical ... [Feeling at Home] is a worthy handbook for those looking to, as the book's subtitle says, "transform the politics of housing"." - New Statesman
"Readers interested in housing policy as well as the housing crisis more generally will find much to ponder." - Booklist
"Gotby's book is a welcome and much-needed intervention" - Tribune
"The stratagems in this book put rational logic and utopia back in the mix" - Frieze
"Shows how we can and must help restore the hope and vision necessary for the collective struggle for better homes for all" - The Care Collective