For more information about temporary accommodation, as well as social tenants being displaced, shelter.org.uk is a vital resource. Shelter does extraordinary work not only supporting people, but documenting experiences and bringing out finely researched and accessible reports – if you want to read more, need help, or want to support their work, visit their website (see above). On London families being ‘silently shipped out’ of the city, and ‘reconnection policies’, there has been excellent reporting by The Independent and The Guardian in particular. Alan White’s 2012 essay in the New Statesman, ‘Thousands of homeless families drift to the end of the track’, is a blistering overview of the Margate-specific context up until the last decade; Matthew Clayfield’s ‘On Margate Sands: Farage, Dreamland, and the UKIP-ification of the Tories’ reaches into more recent history. Further sources for this author’s note can be found below.
‘English councils breaking law in ‘‘secretly’’ relocating homeless people’, Sarah Marsh, The Guardian, 1 October 2020
‘London council in ‘‘social cleansing’’ row over bid to move tenants to Birmingham’, Nadia Khomani, The Guardian, 6 May 2015
‘Over 50,000 families shipped out of London boroughs in the past three years due to welfare cuts and soaring rents’, The Independent, 29 Feb 2016
‘Homeless families to be expelled from London by councils’, Patrick Butler and Ben Ferguson, The Guardian, 4 November 2012
‘Now scarce social housing is being flogged off at auction by councils desperate to stay afloat’, Glyn Robbins, The Independent, 17 May 2019
‘Londoners to be sent to Canterbury after council bidding war for housing’, Damian Gayle, The Guardian, 25 May 2016
‘London councils pay landlords £14m in ‘‘incentives’’ to house homeless people’, Robert Booth, The Guardian, 25 March 2019
‘Councils ‘‘forcing homeless families to relocate miles away’’’, Patrick Butler, The Guardian, 22 May 2016
‘Bleak Houses: Tackling the crisis of family homelessness in England’, Children’s Commissioner, August 2019
Reports by Shelter
‘Research: Temporary Accommodation in London’
‘Sick and Tired – The Impact of Temporary Accommodation on the Health of Homeless Families’
‘Report: Cashing in – How a shortage of social housing is fuelling a multimillion-pound temporary accommodation sector’
‘Briefing: Offering Temporary Accommodation Out of Area’
‘Report: Far From Alone’
‘Live Margate Housing Intervention Business Plan’, Kent County Council/Thanet District Council
‘Margate’s seaside heritage’, Historic England, 2007
‘As they close London’s psychiatric hospitals, where’s the care? Report’, John Lister, COHSE, 1991
‘Thousands of homeless families drift to the end of the track’, Alan White, New Statesman, 21 November 2012
‘On Margate Sands: Farage, Dreamland, and the UKIP-ification of the Tories’, Matthew Clayfield originally published in the Saturday Paper as ‘Waiting for Dreamland’, 24 May 2017
‘Making Towards a Promised Land, Wendy Ewald in conversation with Michael Morris’, ArtAngel, 15 Jul 2005
All the Devils Are Here, David Seabrook, Granta (2002)
‘Margate: will the buyers keep coming from London?’, Harriet Fitch Little, Financial Times, 12 April 2018
‘Turning the Tide: Social justice in five seaside towns’, The Centre for Social Justice, 2016
‘Out of Area – Vulnerable Placements Thanet District Briefing Pack’, Thanet Leadership Group, 2018
‘From moving migrants to Ascension Island to a wave machine in the Channel, all the leaked proposals considered by Priti Patel’, Chloe Chaplain, iNews, 1 October 2020
‘Coastal erosion: the homes lost to the sea’, David Shukman, BBC, 14 February 2020
‘Coastal floods warning in UK as sea levels rise’, David Shukman, BBC, 14 February 2020
‘Extreme sea level events ‘‘will hit once a year by 2050’’’, Damian Carrington, The Guardian, 25 September 2019
‘Coastal flooding and erosion, and adaptation to climate change: Interim Report’, DEFRA, 2019
‘Climate change impacts and adaptation’, The Environment Agency, 2018