Figures obtained by Politics.co.uk reveal that almost 300 Commonwealth nationals have been evicted from their homes under the government’s controversial ‘right to rent’ rules, raising concerns that members of the Windrush generation could have been affected.
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Hundreds of Commonwealth nationals evicted under anti-migrant ‘right to rent’ rule
Posted: February 19, 2019 in articles, housing0
THE NEW URBAN CRISIS: A MANIFESTO FOR THE STATUS QUO
Posted: October 10, 2018 in articles, housing, local governmentIf you want to understand the liberal narrative and response to the crisis, this is a readable and clear start. The limitation is that inequality, exclusion, and poverty are seen as growing problems to be solved through reform, rather than leading to the rejection of the economic model.
DESTRUCTION BY DEREGULATION: THE GRENFELL TOWER FIRE
Posted: June 30, 2017 in articles, housing, local government, social affairsTags: grenfell, housing, journalism
Grenfell Tower, a huge block of social housing flats in West London, caught fire on the 14th June 2017, killing almost 80 people. This national tragedy, which has seen Londoners mobilise to help those displaced and bereaved, has also elicited protests and anger across the capital due to the fact that the incident might have been prevented if warning signs hadn’t been ignored.
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If the government won’t deal with the housing crisis, maybe we should
Posted: February 23, 2016 in articles, housingTags: housing, journalism, politics
“In the race to rent?” That’s what the advert from Rightmove asked at my local bus stop. It made me angry – housing is a right, not a race. But in the last two decades, instead of building housing for people, we’ve built a housing crisis. One which renters are at the sharp end of.
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Over the past year I’ve been busy working on a jointly-authored book for the newly-incarnated Left Book Club.
The Rent Trap brings together a lot of the work myself and Rosie Walker have been doing on housing as journalists and activists. We interviewed everyone from policy-makers to people living in the worst housing conditions, and many degrees in between. What we are aiming to do is show why we have fallen into a rent trap, and look at some of the things we can do about it. Publication is due in March 2016. To find out more, check out the Left Book Club site.
