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31 July 2019
Barking: campaigning over housing safety
Following a shocking, preventable fire on its housing estate a few weeks ago, Barking Reach Residents' Association met to discuss the next steps of its campaign
17 July 2019
Residents mobilise to stop eviction
Irene is a pensioner living in a small terraced house in Liverpool's Kensington area, where she has lived for years.
17 July 2019
Newham housing repairs workers announce strike dates
Unite the Union members employed by Newham Council in its housing repairs service have agreed dates for the start of strike action. This follows a 100% yes vote in the ballot.
12 July 2019
Land privatisation, the largest neoliberal grab in Britain since Margaret Thatcher came to office in 1979, has scarcely been debated
9 July 2019
Residents, housing activists and pensioners mobilise to stop eviction
Irene has lived in Liverpool's Kensington area for years
26 June 2019
Unsafe, unaffordable housing scandal
It is a disgrace for people to be living in unsafe and dangerous housing in the fifth richest country in the world
26 June 2019
Union action can tackle 58% working poverty rate
Almost two-fifths of those in poverty in the UK are also in work
19 June 2019
Angry residents' meeting demands answers and action following fire
The fury poured out, demanding answers and action
12 June 2019
Grenfell two years on - Still fighting for safety and justice
Two years ago, on 14 June 2017, 72 people perished in the Grenfell Tower fire in west London.
10 June 2019
Fire tears through flats - cladding off now!
This blaze should never have happened. Grenfell was a stark warning that the drive for profit in the housing sector is putting people's lives at risk.
5 June 2019
Neglected Newham tenants demand action
For decades, repairs on the homes on the Lawrence Street estate in Canning Town, east London, have been neglected. These homes have also been under threat of demolition. 30 residents met on 30 May to discuss their problems.
5 June 2019
LS26 campaign lobbies council to save their homes
"Leeds City Council hear us say, vote to save our homes today" was the chant that rang out from the tenants of Sugar Hill Close and Wordsworth Drive in Boulton, Leeds
22 May 2019
Pouring cold water on the Riverside estate
Barking Reach Residents Association was out conducting a survey of heating and hot water issues. As we walked into the pleasant grounds of Robert Lewis House on the Barking Riverside estate, east London,
8 May 2019
Labour launches homelessness campaign
An enthusiastic crowd attended the launch meeting of the new Labour Homelessness Campaign. Left opinion columnist Owen Jones expressed anger that people sleep on the streets in Britain, one of the richest
8 May 2019
Alternative housing awards shames bosses
Dressed in tuxedos, managers in social housing organisations arrived at the swanky Grosvenor House Hotel on Park Lane London on 1 May for a social housing 'awards' ceremony, no tenants invited!
24 April 2019
Shac to name and shame housing bosses
The Unite union housing workers' branch and Social Housing Action Campaign are holding their annual name-and-shame 'Alternative Housing Awards' on 1 May
24 April 2019
Housing associations - stop the segregation
The Guardian recently reported that a 'social landlord' threatened a tenant for speaking to the press about segregated facilities for social tenants and private tenants in the same housing block
17 April 2019
Labour looks to Bank of England to stall house prices
£400 billion worth of land - about 10% of the land mass - has been privatised since 1979, making it the biggest single privatisation, according to economist Brett Christophers.
17 April 2019
No-fault evictions ban, but cuts leave tenants vulnerable
You know that things have got bad for private renters when even the Tories realise they need to look like they're doing something to stop the chronic exploitation of tenants.
17 April 2019
Recently, the UK Housing Awards website said its annual event at the plush Grosvenor Hotel, Park Lane, London on 1 May would be hosted by comedian Romesh Ranganathan.
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