Lettings agency makes threats and keeps deposit of tenant with young children: Brighton SolFed opens dispute Hot on the heels of their recent victory against MTM lettings, Brighton Solidarity…
Cotters and squatters: housing's hidden history Colin Ward's Cotters and Squatters explores the story of squatter settlement in England and Wales: from our cave-dwelling recent ancestors to the…
Landlady makes threats instead of owning up: SolFed campaign intensifies A Brighton landlady has hit out at a group of tenants demanding compensation for having to live in…
Brighton Solidarity Federation opens a dispute with MTM lettings agency Brighton Solidarity Federation has started a dispute with MTM lettings on the Lewes road. A group of…
Abahlali baseMjondolo activists kidnapped then tortured at house of local ward councillor On Monday two members of Abahlali were attacked by unknown people in their Silver…
Police brutality leads to pro-migrant march in Rome After a refugee eviction in Rome ended with shocking scenes of police violence, migrants and their supporters took to the streets.
Squatting in London: Precarity and Emergency Crisis Planning Due to sustained attacks from the state, councils, and property owners, squatters in England have…
Sisterhood and Squatting in the 1970s: Feminism, Housing and Urban Change in Hackney A detailed look at squatting in 1970s Hackney, East London. Using oral history to recall how women…
A successful rent strike in 1930s Peckham The story of a successful rent strike in Peckham, south east London, during the 1930s.
East London rent strikes, 1938-9 On 13 February, 1938, a rent strike began in Stepney, east London. This is an account of tenants' struggles in the area at the time, by Past…
