Peter Apps is a journalist who primarily writes about building safety and social housing. Over a 10 year career at the specialist magazine Inside Housing, he has won numerous awards for his news and analysis of the UK’s affordable housing sector. He was one of the few to raise concerns about dangerous cladding and high rise buildings before the Grenfell Tower fire, and provided revelatory reporting in its aftermath into the causes of the blaze. This reporting culminated in his acclaimed book, Show Me The Bodies, which won the 2023 Orwell Prize for Political Writing. His second book, Homesick: How Housing Broke London and How We Fix It, was published by Oneworld in September 2025.