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4 July 2018
Tories pledge three-year private tenancies: fight for rent caps and council homes
Under pressure, the Tories have promised to introduce three-year minimum tenancies. But we need real security, rent caps and a mass building programme of council housing
27 June 2018
Tottenham block evacuations a test for 'Corbynista council'
For a tenants' ballot and mass building of council homes: 200 families have been ordered to leave their homes on estates in Haringey, north London, by October
20 June 2018
Recent reports show there is an increase in the number of suicides among refugees in the UK. The latest additions to that number are three teenage refugees from Eritrea who have taken their own lives in London.
20 June 2018
Grenfell disaster: one year on, still no prosecutions, still no adequate housing..
A silent sea of people wearing green marched through the streets of Kensington and Chelsea on 14 June.
13 June 2018
Pay rises of 283% needed for most to afford London homes
Mass council house building programme needed now: I would need a pay rise to £134,000 a year to afford a mortgage in London - 283% more than the average London salary, or over 400% more than what I and many others earn
23 May 2018
The Grenfell inquiry opened with heartrending tributes to the people who perished
16 May 2018
Ronan Point disaster 50 years on
On 16 May 1968, 50 years ago, Ronan Point, a high-rise tower block in Newham, east London, collapsed killing four people and injuring 17
2 May 2018
Young people trapped in private rental
Housing costs force workers out of London: It's a tough time to be a young person in Britain. Almost two-fifths of Millennials, young people born by 2000, rent privately at 30
4 April 2018
London tenants and workers protest against social housing auction
Outside the upmarket Marriott hotel, tenants and workers protested against an auction of their social housing
28 March 2018
Grenfell: survivors not rehoused, inquiry not independent, blocks not safe
The government has admitted that 82 households are still in temporary accommodation following the Grenfell Tower fire and not all will be in permanent accommodation by June, the first anniversary, writes Paul Kershaw, chair, Unite union housing workers branch.
28 March 2018
Walthamstow Save Our Square protesters thrown out of city hall for demanding a say
London Mayor Sadiq Khan's decision to grant permission to redevelop Walthamstow town square in east London was met with anger and feelings of gross betrayal, writes Linda Taaffe, Waltham Forest Socialist Party.
22 March 2018
Homes for All - Not billionaire profit!
Save Our Square protesters were physically evicted from the London City Hall
14 March 2018
Zero new homes 'affordable' in Blairite Manchester
A damning, yet unsurprising, February housing report reveals that zero affordable housing has been built in Manchester city centre in two years.
28 February 2018
Save Our Square occupation: "This land is our land!"
Hundreds signed up to join the Save Our Square campaign in Waltham Forest, east London, on the day
26 February 2018
Groundswell of opposition to high-rise development
Walthamstow Saturday market square was buzzing, as around 600 angry demonstrators came together
14 February 2018
Rent doubles in a decade: cap rents, build council homes!
A stunning new report reveals the total rent paid in the UK has doubled to £51 billion since 2007
24 January 2018
£2m to remove Grenfell-type cladding: residents to get bill
No charges to residents! Cladding off now!: Residents in the 'Citiscape' housing complex in Croydon, south London, have learnt that tests revealed the cladding on their block poses the same fire hazard as Grenfell Tower.
24 January 2018
Letters to the editors of the Socialist including one NHS worker forced out of the health service and tower block health and safety concerns in Belfast
24 January 2018
Gentrification scourge hits Kent
So-called 'gentrification' is on its way to parts of north Kent that are being packaged as the 'Thames Gateway'.
17 January 2018
No to the Woolwich monster block
If Greenwich council and property developers get their way Woolwich's skyline will soon be unrecognisable
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