18 August 2010
Cameron sticks the boot into our council housing
THE CON-DEM government is determined to use the excuse of a financial crisis to justify its aim to finish what Thatcher started - and Blair and Brown, in effect, continued - the comprehensive dismantling of the welfare state, writes Louise Cuffaro.
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A housing protest on the Seven Stars estate in Wrekenton, Gateshead, photo Elaine Brunskill |
2 June 2010
Gateshead tenants demand decent homes
For years the residents of the Seven Stars Estate in Wrekenton, Gateshead, have been promised by councillors and housing management that their homes would be updated by 2010 with new kitchens, bathrooms, fires and combi-boilers, alongside having houses re-painted and rewired, writes Elaine Brunskill, Newcastle Socialist Party.
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25 March 2009
Credit crunch hits home
Comment: Twenty year old Ashley Jenkins has recently joined the Socialist Party. Here he explains his experiences as a tenant in Gloucester...
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4 June 2008
Markets cannot end house building crisis
A LONDON newspaper recently announced in bold headlines: "Brown is brown bread" (for the benefit of non-Londoners, that means 'dead!'), writes Paul Kennedy.
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4 March 2008
Housing association collapses
Safe as houses? MANY HOMEOWNERS face the risk of losing their home because of the effects of the credit crunch, but are housing association tenants completely insulated from the crisis, writes Paul Kennedy
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29 March 2007
Tenants defeat housing sell-off
Swansea: 'DEFEND COUNCIL Housing' (DCH) campaigners in Swansea are celebrating the defeat of the council's attempt to privatise its housing stock...
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15 March 2007
Tenants vote no to council housing sell-off
COUNCIL TENANTS in Brighton and Hove have dealt a blow to New Labour's privatisation agenda...
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15 March 2007
Market-driven 'social housing' threatens tenants
THE GOVERNMENT recently launched a new report into the future of social housing...
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7 February 2007
Don't privatise social housing!
RECENT CHANGES could lead to the end of "not for profit" social housing in England or, at the very least, fundamentally change housing provision...
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7 February 2007
Tenants pay when things go wrong
SOCIALIST PARTY members are actively involved in the campaign by tenants of Peabody Housing Trust to stop it selling off 1,100 homes on the open market...
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