housing

Expecting resistance: Looking back on the production of a foreclosure defence documentary

Submitted by Eviction Free Zone on May 21 2013 06:58

A detailed look at the production process for our documentary Expect Resistance, which looks at the growing housing justice movement by looking at Take Back the Land Rochester.

Merseyside Anti-Bedroom Tax Federation founded

Submitted by Combat Bedroom Tax on May 19 2013 09:22

Merseyside anti-bedroom tax groups get organised

Low cost pragmatic storage solutions for the surplus population

Submitted by Joseph Kay on May 17 2013 12:18

A follow-up to my blog on the 'housing shortage', originally posted as an overly-long facebook status and reposted here now that the scheme to house people in shipping containers has been approved.

Direct action, Occupy Wallstreet, and the future of housing justice: an interview with Noam Chomsky

Submitted by Eviction Free Zone on Apr 17 2013 22:45

Check out this interview with Noam Chomsky about the growing housing justice movement, the future of Occupy, and how direct action can play into all of this.

This time it’s personal. Mortgage fraud, faux-democracy and escrache in Spain

Submitted by yaiza on Apr 11 2013 21:22

The escrache protests in Spain organised by the Platform of Mortgage Victims are quickly getting to the rotten core of a technical government in all but name. Despite the Popular Party's attempts to demonise them in the press they continue to gather support, pointing the way for the rest of Europe.

Housing Associations scabbing off tenants hit by bedroom tax

Submitted by Combat Bedroom Tax on Mar 1 2013 16:24

Housing associations are no better than scabs. In fact, they are scabs

How to combat the bedroom tax with a tape measure

Submitted by Combat Bedroom Tax on Feb 20 2013 11:18

One - but only one way - to combat the bedroom tax

Rent - an injustice (1984)

I. R. Ybarra's fierce and unapologetic tirade against rent and landlordism. This pamphlet was first published by the anarchist quarterly The Match! in August, 1984 in Tucson, Arizona.