Explosive device outside occupied building in Rome During the night of July 7 an explosive device was left in front of an occupied building in Rome.
The bedroom tax and Labour Party hypocrisy In the past week, the Labour Party has launched its Labour Against the Bedroom Tax campaign nationwide, with its roots in Liverpool. It’s the…
Gentrification - the economy of the land and the role of politics Wine and Cheese on the politics and economics of land and housing.
Kirkby rent strike, 1972 The Kirkby Rent Strike was a 14-month long rent strike initiated by 3,000 tenants on October 9, 1972 in the town of Kirkby, outside Liverpool,…
The demolition of social housing? The state attack on tenants & tenancies A critical look at some of the major changes happening to social housing in the UK—and its likely…
Warsaw: Huge Victory for Tenants! Tenants in Poland are celebrating the first successful grassroots campaign to prevent the sell-off of publicly owned housing.
House prices increase by 273% in 50 years According to a new study by Halifax, house prices in the UK have increased by 273% in real terms since 1959 .
Glasgow: Demolition plans for former council housing Two-thirds of Maryhill’s former council houses are to be torn down.
Glasgow: Botany betrayed The new Maryhill plan – new back and front door houses for half of the current tenants – is exactly what Botany tenants were told in 2001.
The housing question Aufheben's incredibly detailed and comprehensive history and analysis of housing and the working class in UK.
Cologne: occupation of the Barmer Block housing estate, 2006 - Wildcat Text published in Wildcat in summer 2006 reporting on the internal dynamics of a major housing…
Oldest council estate says no to private landlord In 1900 the Boundary Estate, just north of Brick Lane in the Whitechapel area of east London, became Britain's first council estate and, following a vote last week, it will continue to be so for the forseeable future.
