Housing

Homes of our own: the growing student co-operative movement September 2013

Sean Farmelo is part of a group of Birmingham students involved in setting up a new student housing co-op

Squat rot: plans to extend squatting ban August 2013

Last September squatting in residential properties was criminalised. Now there are calls to extend the ban to commercial properties. Lorna Stephenson reports

David Harvey interview: The importance of postcapitalist imagination August 2013

From housing to wages, David Harvey says examining capitalism's contradictions can point the way towards an alternative world

Giving homeless young people a voice through theatre August 2013

Edd Mustill reviews Home, a play at the National Theatre Shed

Regulating the Rigsbys: the dodgy letting agents hitting the jackpot June 2013

Dry rot? Tough. You want your deposit back? No chance. Michael Pooler looks at how anyone with a phone line can become a private letting agent

Private tenants need protection May 2013

Jeremy Corbyn MP explains why legislation is urgently needed to help tenants who find themselves at the mercy of private landlords

US: Fighting foreclosures, making the banks pay April 2013

Stephen Lerner and Saqib Bhatti report on the scale of the housing crisis facing ordinary Americans post-crash, and the growth of housing justice and bank accountability activism across the US

Mythbuster: home truths about housing April 2013

Red Pepper’s guide to the reality behind the housing crisis

Can’t pay, won’t move: resisting the bedroom tax April 2013

With a new raft of housing benefit cuts hitting this month, including the infamous ‘bedroom tax’, tenants are getting angry – and organised. Izzy Koksal meets some of them

Tenant troubles February 2013

The past year has seen the beginnings of a vibrant private tenants’ movement emerging. Christine Haigh reports

Lambeth’s short-life sell off December 2012

Lambeth brands itself a ‘co-operative council’ – but it is selling off properties currently run by housing co-ops, reports Lambeth Save Our Services

Dale Farm: The human cost of prejudice March 2012

As the displaced residents of Dale Farm in Essex face another round of forced evictions, Elly Robson talks to some of the families and examines the discrimination they face

‘The government may have trampled over democracy but people will still be squatting’ December 2011

Lorna Stephenson and Emma Hughes meet SQUASH, the squatters’ action group who have been ignored in the anti-squatting media furore

Housing: The market has failed December 2011

Bob Colenutt on a housing strategy for Britain 2011

Revenge of the repossessed July 2011

Stuart Hodkinson explores alternatives to the housing crisis

Housing cuts: Resistance begins at home February 2011

Isabel Parrott on what can be done to tackle the housing cuts

Saving council housing April 2009

A decade ago, with New Labour stepping up the Tory sell-offs, council housing seemed to be approaching extinction. Tom Walker looks at Defend Council Housing, a campaign that has stopped privatisation in its tracks

Alternative home sweet home April 2007

There are many ways to provide housing outside the simple rent or buy culture that dominates society, write Paul Chatterton, Larch Maxey and Jenny Pickerill

Squatting for beginners June 2004

If you have nowhere to live and little money, squatting may be your best hope of a roof over your head, writes Jim Paton of the Advisory Service for Squatters





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