Join The Bristol Cable in welcoming the award-winning author and housing journalist Peter Apps, in conversation with Ruth Day, to discuss Bristol’s ongoing housing crisis and what we can do about it.

There will also be an opportunity for a Q+A and copies of Peter’s book ‘Show Me The Bodies: How We Let Grenfell Happen’ available to buy

Peter Apps is a journalist who primarily writes about building safety and social housing. Over a 10 year career at the specialist magazine Inside Housing, he has won numerous awards for his news and analysis of the UK’s affordable housing sector. He was one of the few to raise concerns about dangerous cladding and high rise buildings before the Grenfell Tower fire, and provided revelatory reporting in its aftermath into the causes of the blaze. This reporting culminated in his acclaimed book, Show Me The Bodies, which won the 2023 Orwell Prize for Political Writing.

Ruth Day is a Bristol-based housing activist and campaigner working to create democratic, affordable, tenant-owned and managed housing for students in Bristol.