Simon Elmer

Simon Elmer is the Head of Research for Architects for Social Housing. His recent books include Case Studies in Estate Regeneration: Demolition, Privatisation, Social Cleansing (2025); The Housing Crisis: Finance, Legislation, Policy, Resistance (2025); and Architecture is Always Political: A Communist History (2024); and with Geraldine Dening, Saving St. Raphael’s Estate: The Alternative to Demolition (2022), For a Socialist Architecture: Under Capitalism (2021); and Central Hill: A Case Study in Estate Regeneration (2018).