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Extend the eviction ban now!

Housing activists are again building pressure on the government to not end the eviction ban on 20 September as planned, reports Shabbir Lakha
We must stop the Tories ending the eviction ban

The government’s new end date for the eviction ban is fast-approaching amid a growing housing crisis, now’s the time to resist argues Norbert Lawrie
Quilombo Campo Grande eviction: a crime against humanity

The eviction of vulnerable workers in Bolsonaro’s Brazil is a violent crime which should be met with resistance and solidarity, reports Orlando Da Rocha Hill.
Paris and London: A Tale of Two Radical Cities

Chris Bambery on the history of two great capital cities, and the architecture of power.
Losing your home: evicting a builder

After caring for his elderly mother 50-year-old builder Simon faces eviction from a council flat. The second of a three part series by Rebecca Omonira-Oyekanmi
Losing your home: one day in a Coventry court

In the first of a three part series on housing in Coalition Britain Rebecca Omonira-Oyekanmi describes the nightmare of eviction faced by growing numbers of working class people
Losing your home: explaining the Coalition's eviction epidemic

The Tory war on welfare is implicated in the growing numbers of evictions finds Rebecca Omonira-Oyekanmi in the third part of her investigation into housing in Coalition Britain
Tom Crawford vs the banks and bailiffs

For the second time in a year an attempt to evict Tom Crawford from his Nottingham home has been foiled by a mobilisation of hundreds of supporters. Stewart Halforty reports
The eviction the people stopped

Stewart Halforty reports from Nottingham, where a picket stopped a bailiff sent by a state-owned zombie bank to repossess a family home

Evictions

Evictions

Housing activists are again building pressure on the government to not end the eviction ban on 20 September as planned, reports Shabbir Lakha

The government’s new end date for the eviction ban is fast-approaching amid a growing housing crisis, now’s the time to resist argues Norbert Lawrie

The eviction of vulnerable workers in Bolsonaro’s Brazil is a violent crime which should be met with resistance and solidarity, reports Orlando Da Rocha Hill.

Chris Bambery on the history of two great capital cities, and the architecture of power.

After caring for his elderly mother 50-year-old builder Simon faces eviction from a council flat. The second of a three part series by Rebecca Omonira-Oyekanmi

In the first of a three part series on housing in Coalition Britain Rebecca Omonira-Oyekanmi describes the nightmare of eviction faced by growing numbers of working class people

The Tory war on welfare is implicated in the growing numbers of evictions finds Rebecca Omonira-Oyekanmi in the third part of her investigation into housing in Coalition Britain

For the second time in a year an attempt to evict Tom Crawford from his Nottingham home has been foiled by a mobilisation of hundreds of supporters. Stewart Halforty reports

Stewart Halforty reports from Nottingham, where a picket stopped a bailiff sent by a state-owned zombie bank to repossess a family home