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19 October 2011
Rocketing rents leave tenants facing eviction
Average private rents are now beyond the reach of ordinary families in most of the country (55% of local authority areas) according to a new survey by housing charity Shelter, writes Paul Kershaw.
5 October 2011
Tories plan further destruction of social housing
The Tory conference announcement that they will increase the discount for 'right to buy' council house sales is a cruel trick on people suffering on housing waiting lists and council tenants looking for a way out of council housing, writes Paul Kershaw.
28 September 2011
BAE jobs massacre: BAE Systems has announced that it intends to axe 3,000 manufacturing jobs in the UK. The main brunt of the job losses will hit plants in Brough, East Yorkshire, and at Warton and Samlesbury in Lancashire...
17 August 2011
Defend council tenants from eviction!
On Friday 12 August Tory-controlled Wandsworth council in London threatened a parent with eviction whose son has appeared in court
Housing campaign: Cardiff Socialist Party campaigning to stop house repossessions, photo SP Wales
15 June 2011
Private renting: high rents, no security and bad conditions: Paul Kershaw, from Unite LE 1111 housing workers' branch reveals the details of some of the Con-Dem attacks...
11 May 2011
Review: Panorama on housing: The human impact of the crisis
By talking to some of the people affected, the Panorama programme on 4 May gave a rare glimpse on prime time TV, of the human impact of the housing crisis, writes Paul Kershaw, Unite LE 1111 housing workers' branch, personal capacity.
No DSS - benefit cuts lead to homelessness
6 April 2011
Housing benefit cuts start to bite
There will be widespread anguish at Tory/Lib Dems' changes to housing benefit which came into force on 1 April. Hundreds of thousands of families entitlement to help with housing costs in privately rented property will be sharply reduced, writes Dave Nellist, Socialist Party councillor, Coventry.
16 February 2011
Private tenants are the poor relations in housing
ROGUE PRIVATE landlords continue to put tenants' health and safety at risk. The Chartered Institute of Environmental Health (CIEH) has said that around one million privately-let homes in England are dangerous...
A housing protest on the Seven Stars estate in Wrekenton, Gateshead, photo Elaine Brunskill
8 December 2010
Housing under attack: Ripping off the roof over our heads
The Con-Dem government plans a 63% cut in funding for social house building. They want to remove security of tenure for new social housing tenants and are introducing massive cuts in housing benefit...
23 November 2010
Government plans are an attack on council tenants
AS A result of plans set out by the government's housing minister Grant Shapps, new social housing tenants would be offered tenancies with no long term security, writes Paul Kershaw.
20 October 2010
Government slams door shut on social housing
SPENDING CUTS and proposals to end security for council tenants would mean the end of social housing as it has been known in Britain, writes Paul Kershaw.
29 September 2010
Housing bosses' pay goes through the roof
THE AVERAGE pay for a housing association chief executive is now £153,353. Some of them get much more; the Anchor Trust boss gets £290,000, for example. They also get big employers' pension contributions...
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.
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.
25 March 2009
Comment: Twenty year old Ashley Jenkins has recently joined the Socialist Party. Here he explains his experiences as a tenant in Gloucester...
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.
4 March 2008
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
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...
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...
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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