Assemble's Turner prize win: a sign of our deeply embedded housing crisis

That a housing project has won such a prestigious art prize should serve as a wake-up call to most other regeneration schemes, which neglect local peopleFor the first, though hopefully not the last time, I’m stood on a Turner prize winning art work. Tucked behind a main road leading to Toxteth, south Liverpool, a plot of just over 200 houses stands. Until 2011, the houses were mostly derelict and empty. The residents, dismayed by plans to demolish the terraces, set up a community land trus