After Brexit, we must seize the opportunity to roll back privatisation, the market, and the free movement of labour and capital to rethink Britain’s housing…
4 August 2017
Kensington and Chelsea council raised £4.5 million from the sale of two council houses last year, more than the £3.5 million outlay on the controversial cladding system added to Grenfell Tower.
House the People
CPBML Public Meeting, Thursday 28 September, 7.30pm
Brockway Room, Conway Hall, Red Lion Square, London WC1R 4RL
Housing in Britain is broken. Instead of filling a need, it is an investment from which huge profits can be made by taking advantage of the acute rise in demand. Meanwhile, council housing is left to rot – with deadly consequences. Come and discuss. All welcome.
Alongside the terrorist outrages of the past two months, the horrific fire which swept through a Kensington tower block on 15 June stands apart as a wholly preventable event.
Manchester is now top of the table for growth in house prices, having increased by 8.8 per cent in the year ending February.
Across large parts of Britain houses and flats are not even being built to be homes – just investments…
Plans are being made to convert offices into flats as small as 16 square metres.
Figures published in August show that over £9 billion a year is now paid in housing benefits to people living in private rented accommodation.
25 March 2016
The government is running down social housing intending to prime the market for foreign takeover. Fearing that Britain may exit the EU, speculators are already leaping into the property scrum.
The new Housing and Planning Bill cultivates and exploits the crisis in housing to strengthen the class power of a tiny minority…
5 October 2015
The phrase “housing crisis” is a daily media prod to the London commuter. Blink and it’s still there. But we’ve been stood immobile and blinking for far too long.
19 September 2015
Teachers can’t afford London, says the newly formed London Teachers’ Housing Campaign, as tthe average price of a home soars above £500,000 and rents continue to rise by over 10 per cent a year.
London has tens of thousands of “safe deposit boxes” positioned on its public streets – houses and flats bought for investment but untenanted.
The march for homes
Saturday 31 January
Assemble 12 midday at St Mary’s Churchyard, Newington Causeway, SE1 6SQ (Elephant and Castle tube). March to City Hall.
Called by Defend Council Housing and South London People’s Assembly
Estimates put the value of Britain’s housing stock at more than £5 trillion – that’s five thousand billion. Yet the shortage of housing remains a pressing requirement for millions of workers.
Housing has become a case of satisfying the greed of a tiny minority of capitalist speculators. And “build more houses” is not the answer to the housing shortage. Here are some alternatives…
24 October 2014
An international feast of property speculators visited London for the first time in October – networking, partying, and carving up Britain’s assets.
24 October 2014
Women in east London are fighting a spirited campaign to stop evictions and to house local people in local estates.
House prices in London have risen by 17 per cent in the past 12 months – a disastrous and artificial boom.
The surge in capitalist markets from 1997 to 2007 was only achieved by deliberate, reckless stimulation of credit growth, enacted through a combination of abnormally low interest rates (relative to inflation) and exceedingly lax regulation of both credit and housing markets.
