Housing crisis

Housing crisis

• Municipal Dreams - book review

  

  Council housing was about building homes not financial assets, and we should be proud of that, finds William Alderson

• Peak inequality: Britain's ticking time bomb - review

  

  Danny Dorling’s Peak Inequality provides powerful evidence of the damage that rising inequality has had across housing, education, health and demography, finds Sean Ledwith

• Movement gears up for fightback against austerity

  

  The Britain is Broken campaign is striking hard at the heart of austerity, writes Kevin Vickers

• The homelessness crisis deepens across North America

  

  Homelessness is spiralling out of control across the US and Canada as laws are enacted to criminalise rough sleepers, reports John Clarke

• Is austerity over? The picture from the North East shows it isn't

  

  Theresa May recently said that austerity was coming to an end. Tony Dowling from the People's Assembly North East explains why this isn't true

• Fighting the oppression of housing regeneration

  

  Potent Whisper represents a voice not found in the BBC's reporting on the housing crisis, argues Julie Al-Hinai

• Taking back the city: direct action amid the Dublin housing emergency

  

  Homelessness is on the rise and the state is siding with the landlords. Josh Newman reports from Dublin

• Reforms and resistance: how tenants can influence housing policy

  

  Tenants can influence housing policy through grassroots resistance across housing tenures, argues Stewart Smyth

• Victory for residents as Haringey Council Leader quits

  

  Haringey Council Leader Claire Kober's resignation is a victory for democracy and the grassroots Stop HDV campaign against social cleansing, Isabel Carr reports

• Stop HDV: social housing, social cleansing and grassroots resistance

  

  The campaign to stop privatisation of social housing in Haringey is a prominent example of effective grassroots resistance to council-backed social cleansing explains Isabel Carr

• This is our time, but we have to organise - weekly briefing

  

  The left is on the front foot - we can't let this moment pass

• Ken Knight is the last person that should oversee Grenfell response

  

  The retired firefighter that is set to chair the response to the Grenfell disaster has a history of implementing austerity, writes this London firefighter

• Grenfell is not an accident - video

  

  A look at how the problems of class and austerity meant Grenfell could happen, with Judy Cox and Shabbir Lakha

• Grenfell: The price of profit

  

  The 'bonfire of regulations' has now taken on a chilling new meaning

• Boiling point: the crises created by neoliberalism

  

  The crises facing the NHS, London Underground and housing are just a few examples of the results of austerity and privatisation argues Lindsey German

• Kill the Housing Bill demo in photographs

  

  The Housing protest in London on Sunday 13 March, photographed by Jim Aindow

• Stock markets plunge: there may be trouble ahead

  

  As stock markets tumble again, the recovery Osborne was boasting about rests on shaky foundations

• Housing for need not for greed

  

  Social housing is no longer an option for all but a handful, writes Alastair Stephens