social housing
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How a Community in North London Is Fighting for the Housing It Needs by Cecilia Keating
At a crowded open meeting, local people moved from one table to the next, giving their opinions on a housing development planned for the site currently occupied by St Ann’s Hospital in south Tottenham. Continue reading
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A history of council housing: Municipal Dreams brings the national story of housing to life
25 May 2019 — Verso Books Municipal Dreams: The Rise and Fall of Council Housing John Boughton “An elegant and compendious ongoing exploration of Britain’s social history through its council estate… There couldn’t be a better time for this book.” – Lynsey Hanley, Guardian Continue reading
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In one graph the government just quietly revealed the Bedroom Tax has been an utter failure By Steve Topple
On Thursday 9 November the government quietly released the latest housing statistics for 2015/16. And buried in a spreadsheet is a single graph that shows how the so-called ‘Bedroom Tax’ has been a complete failure. Continue reading
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Video: Foreign Investment and The UK Housing Crisis
Real Media speaks to Anna Minton, the author of “Big Capital: Who Is London For?” about the causes, effects and potential remedies for the housing crisis that has been growing for 30 years in London and beyond Continue reading
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Video: Dispossession: The Great Social Housing Swindle
For some people, a housing crisis means not getting planning permission for a loft conversion. For others it means, quite simply, losing their home. Dispossession: The Great Social Housing Swindle is a feature documentary directed by Paul Sng (Sleaford Mods – Invisible Britain) and narrated by Maxine Peake, exploring the catastrophic failures that have led… Continue reading
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London Renters and the Right to the City By Tom Gann
The New Economics Foundation’s recent report Distant Neighbours makes some grim predictions about Islington in the near future, claiming that “by 2020 a family need to earn more than £90,000 to afford market rents” in the area. Alongside the very rich, the report suggests there will still be a group “on low incomes at the… Continue reading
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The question of housing is a question of socialism By Gavin Jackson
With a social housing waiting list with approximately 5 millions names on it, thousands more homeless on any given night, and many more homes overcrowded, this is one more example of capitalism’s inability to meet the basic needs of huge numbers of people. There is plenty of demand for homes, but the supply of new-builds… Continue reading
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The ‘Bedroom Tax’: A Two-Pronged Attack By Insa Koch
The ‘bedroom tax’, which was implemented on the 1 April 2013, has been widely criticised as a fundamental attack on the welfare state in Britain. It exposes many people to the risk of losing their houses, threatening to break up family homes and communities. But there is also another problem with the ‘bedroom tax’ which… Continue reading
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