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30 October 2019
How working-class tenants beat Gentrification
Every time I drive up Lea Bridge Road in Walthamstow, east London, I pass the Butterfields estate. I look with pride to the 'Butterfields won't budge' poster still displayed in the window of one of the tenants.
9 October 2019
'The little people can win' - Leeds tenants push back demolition
After over two years of campaigning, the residents of Woodsworth Drive and Sugar Hill Close in Leeds have had plans to demolish their homes voted down unanimously by Leeds City Council's planning committee.
25 September 2019
Housing - bold, socialist measures necessary
Labour's housing policies: a welcome beginning: Walking through the streets of Britain's cities, homeless people sleeping rough are hard to miss.
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.
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.
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
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
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.
3 April 2019
Poor doors, segregated playgrounds
Haven't the Tories and Blairites got enough to answer for without barring poor children from playgrounds? An investigation by the Guardian has showed yet another side of life under the 'Nasty Party' and its shadows on the right of Labour.
5 December 2018
Arrogant landlords can be beaten
Housing association bosses gave Theresa May a standing ovation after a speech on housing policy - you wouldn't find an audience of housing workers or tenants do that
28 November 2018
The Tories' letting fee ban is full of holes - we need rent controls and council homes!
The Tories have recently announced a bill to end letting agency fees, as well as capping deposits at a maximum of six weeks' rent.
31 October 2018
Housing in Britain is in crisis. Bailiffs were called to a house in Hove on 26 October after the tenant - struggling to get by on Universal Credit - fell into rent arrears.
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
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
16 May 2018
Sweden: Socialist elected leader of 77,000-strong tenants' union
Kristofer Lundberg, a leading member of Rättvisepartiet Socialisterna (Socialist Justice - CWI Sweden), was recently elected as leader of the 77,000 member tenants' union in West Sweden with 60% of the vote from delegates to the union's regional council
18 April 2018
Butterfields tenants join TUSC campaign
In 2016 Socialist Party members helped Butterfields tenants fight eviction - they achieved a famous victory
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.
7 February 2018
Corbyn's left must seize the advantage in Labour's civil war
Headlines scream about a hard-left takeover of the Labour Party. No wonder. Under Tony Blair, big business found a safe political alternative to the Tories. How they must now long for the return of pro-capitalist, pro-austerity Labour as they watch the Tories' divisions
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
Gentrification scourge hits Kent
So-called 'gentrification' is on its way to parts of north Kent that are being packaged as the 'Thames Gateway'.
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