<p>Often portrayed as an apolitical space this book demonstrates that home is in fact a highly political concept with a range of groups in society excluded from a 'right to home' under current UK policies. </p><p> Drawing on resident interviews and analysis of political and media attitudes across three case studies - the criminalisation of squatting the bedroom tax and family homelessness - the book explores the ways in which legislative and policy changes dismantle people's rights to secure decent and affordable housing by framing them as undeserving.</p>