Peter Apps

Peter Apps is a British journalist and author specialising in urban development, housing policy, and social justice. He is the deputy editor of Inside Housing, a specialist publication covering the UK social housing sector, and has spent years investigating the circumstances that led to the Grenfell Tower fire of June 2017, in which seventy-two people died. Show Me the Bodies: How We Let Grenfell Happen (2022) is Apps's account of the political and regulatory failures that caused the Grenfell disaster, tracing the decisions made over decades by government, local councils, and the construction and cladding industries that contributed to the fire. The book won the Orwell Prize for Political Writing in 2023 and the Baillie Gifford Prize for Nonfiction, and was widely praised for its meticulous research, its moral clarity, and its compassion for the survivors and bereaved families. Apps has continued to report on housing policy and building safety in the aftermath of Grenfell, and his work has contributed significantly to the public inquiry and subsequent legislative reform. He is based in London.