Peter Apps' Homesick argues that beneath the housing crisis of rents and shortages is a deeper history of community-unbuilding. To read this article and start a full year of unlimited online access, subscribe now! Login Need to register for your premium online access,which is included with your paid subscription? Register NowPeter Apps’ first book was an award-winning investigation into the causes and consequences of the 2017 Grenfell Tower high-rise fire in London. His second book, Homesick, begins with the basic unit of the housing crisis: a bedsit (a studio apartment, maybe with a shared kitchen or toilet) in a cramped building, with “whitewashed walls, numbered doors with individual locks, fire-exit signs and emergency lighting.” There is mold.