ABSTRACT
This chapter looks at the long-term efforts of one local authority councillor to make evictions a thing of the past. It examines the almost universal opposition of the housing professionals towards a non-eviction policy, seeking answers to why such hostility exists. The chapter shows that the extent to which ‘emotions’ or ‘affects’ are political insofar as they relate to the things of the world in a socially mediated way. A valuable understanding of the problem of the parallax gap was developed in 18th century by Immanuel Kant through his philosophical work on opposing positions and perspectives. From a political-realist perspective, the impediment to such paradigmatic change is not lack of ambition, nor is it a deficiency in knowledge or understanding. What will stand in the way of a green new future for housing and indeed the wider transformation that will facilitate such change, are the forces that currently dominate the political economy.
