Anne Power
Is Professor of Social Policy at the London School of Economics and Director of LSE Housing. Since 1965 she has been involved in European and American housing and urban problems.
Anne leads our work on Housing and Communities.
In 1966 she worked with Martin Luther King's 'End Slums' campaign in Chicago, and on her return to Britain organised community-based projects in Islington. From 1979 to 1989 she worked for the Department of the Environment, setting up Priority Estates Projects to rescue run-down estates all over the country.
In 1991 she became founding Director of the National Communities Resource Centre at Trafford Hall in Chester, which provides residential training for people living and working in low-income communities.
She was awarded a MBE in 1983 for work in Brixton, and a CBE in June 2000 for services to regeneration and resident participation. Anne Power was a member of the Urban Task Force, the Government's second urban Housing Sounding Board and in 2002 she chaired the Independent Commission on the Future of Housing in Birmingham.
Anne's latest books, Jigsaw Cities, published in March 2007 and City Survivors, November 2007.
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