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8 January 2014
Greedy landlords create housing hell
Fergus Wilson - one of Britain's largest private landlords - says he will not accept any more applicants who rely on housing benefit
8 January 2014
Class injustice at Dickensian court
Between Christmas and New Year, thousands of tenants in rent arrears were dragged into courts across the country facing possession orders
13 November 2013
A Labour motion calling for the bedroom tax to be abolished at once is being debated in parliament
Glasgow demonstration against the bedroom tax and austerity 30 March 2013, photo Jim Halfpenny
8 October 2013
Scotland anti-bedroom tax conference
"The bedroom tax is now a dead tax walking" commented Tommy Sheridan in opening Saturday's conference
11 September 2013
Bolton victory shows we can beat the bedroom tax
Last month the Bolton at Home housing association became the first in the country to introduce a policy of "no homelessness" for tenants in arrears because of the bedroom tax
28 August 2013
Carlisle - Building the anti-bedroom tax fightback
Carlisle campaigners have really got the message out in the last two months
17 July 2013
Bedroom tax non-payment soars in Scotland: Stop evictions
The majority of Scottish councils have reported a significant increase in rent arrears since the bedroom tax - a housing benefit cut for under occupancy of 'spare bedrooms' - was introduced in April, writes Matt Dobson, Socialist Party Scotland.
3 July 2013
Fighting back against hated bedroom tax
Tenants and campaigners unite: Kevin Pattison reports on how anti-bedroom tax campaigners in Leeds are fighting back.
19 June 2013
We can beat the bedroom tax - Guide
A 'know your rights' guide printed as a supplement in issue 770 of the Socialist
5 June 2013
Campaigning against the bedroom tax
Over 2,000 people attended the anti-bedroom tax rally in Glasgow's George Square on 1 June
26 April 2013
Ordsall anti-bedroom tax campaign launched
Over fifty people attended a lively launch of Salford's newest anti bedroom tax campaign
24 April 2013
Organise to bin the bedroom tax
How our campaign can win: To charge tenants who are already on low incomes for having a room where people they are close to can stay is just about the meanest trick of a government which has a world-class reputation for mean tricks, writes Paul Gerrard, Salford against Cuts.
2 April 2013
Opposing the Bedroom Tax in Leeds
Across the city, Hands off our Homes has been organising meetings against the bedroom tax
27 March 2013
What does the budget really mean for the housing crisis?
The government's claim to be tackling the housing crisis dominated budget headlines, but it quickly became clear that its policies give a hand-out to its millionaire friends
23 January 2013
The Con-Dems' 'bedroom tax' is not just an attack on the unemployed but also on workers who are forced - through low pay and high private rents - to rely on housing benefit
Glasgow 1915 Rent Strike, photo by Unknown
31 October 2012
Housing: How the market has failed
When strikes and protests won reforms: Five million people in Britain - two million households - are desperate for decent, affordable housing...
10 September 2012
Young tenants to lobby Leeds council over housing crisis
Leeds Youth Fight for Jobs will be lobbying Leeds City Council this Wednesday, 12th September over housing issues as part of its 'Young Tenants Fightback' campaign...
Wanted - decent affordable housing, photo by The Socialist
11 April 2012
WANTED - decent affordable housing!
For generations tenants and other activists have fought to win new housing with security of tenure for working class people in Britain's towns, cities and rural areas...
7 March 2012
Leeds Tenants Federation opposes Welfare Reform Bill
Almost 100 people attended a conference called by Leeds Tenants Federation to discuss the government's Welfare Reform Bill and its impact on tenants in Leeds, writes Iain Dalton, Hyde Park and Headingley Socialist Party.
9 November 2011
1915 - How strikes and rent strikes won gains for Scottish tenants
In this article Sinead Daly from Socialist Party Scotland shows how working class families resisted rent rises and appalling housing conditions in Glasgow nearly 100 years ago...
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