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Published in: openDemocracyUK5 ways to solve the housing crisis
Our cities need homes - not safety deposit boxes in the sky.
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Published in: Shine A LightAusterity stories you won’t hear about in today’s Budget
Rhea needs a home. She is a full-time single mother of three living in destitution on the brink of homelessness. Yet...
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Published in: Shine A LightHow to start a housing movement
Radical groups working on housing, racism, poverty, sex worker and migrant rights are springing up all over London....
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Published in: Shine A LightHousing activists stand up to dodgy landlords and council bullies
The Grenfell tower fire forced a public debate on housing inequality in London. Tenants have long been at the mercy...
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Published in: Shine A LightHow housing activists are challenging town hall decisions
Using direct action, housing activists challenge unfeeling and harsh local authority decisionmaking
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Published in: TransformationHow to fight the global Wall Street landlords
Banks and vulture funds make money from ordinary people’s distress. The only way to fight back is to outsmart them.
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Published in: openDemocracyUKTheresa May has prioritised the rights of absentee landlords over the Grenfell victims
Objections to the requisitioning of empty properties have nothing to do with fears of state coercion. Instead, it's...
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Published in: North Africa, West AsiaGovernment failure to upgrade informal settlements in Egypt: a brief history
Is civil administration and planning in Egypt being run professionally according to research and analysis, or is it...
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Published in: openDemocracyUKA viable alternative to 'regeneration'
The "Regrowth" model could potentially solve many of the problems facing councils, allowing for sustainable,...
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Published in: North Africa, West AsiaCairo: a history of people’s right to the city
A social and historical introduction to people’s struggle over the right to the city in Cairo, Egypt.
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Published in: openDemocracyUKThe politics of 'regeneration' in Euston
It is absurd to replace inadequate housing for the poor with adequate housing for the poor - let's not repeat the...
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Published in: openDemocracyUKInterview: why tenants are feeling let down, how they are fighting back
A group of tenants occupied a flat in East London to protest against rising rents and government subsidies for...
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Published in: openDemocracyUKA boom in estate agents isn't the road to real recovery
31% of new jobs in the UK in the 3 months to June were with estate agents. This isn't any solution to the economic...
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Published in: TransformationCommunity action against property markets
Dan Strange's cartoon is a bold image of transformation through community action. It is a response to Jane...
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Published in: oDRUlyanovsk: no homes for heroes, but plenty of money for an art prize
Many aging Russian WWII veterans live in appalling conditions, and some die before they can cash a government...