Fire deaths were preventable
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.
Housing
Housing
Manchester: flats, flats, flats
Manchester is now top of the table for growth in house prices, having increased by 8.8 per cent in the year ending February.
Housing isn't working
Across large parts of Britain houses and flats are not even being built to be homes – just investments…
Housing: Micro-flats
Plans are being made to convert offices into flats as small as 16 square metres.
Housing: billions in subsidies for landlords
Figures published in August show that over £9 billion a year is now paid in housing benefits to people living in private rented accommodation.
Housing at the mercy of speculators and the EU
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.
Housing: a national issue, and a class issue
The new Housing and Planning Bill cultivates and exploits the crisis in housing to strengthen the class power of a tiny minority…
Action over housing
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.
London teachers launch housing campaign
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.
Housing - empty investments
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
The march for homes
Saturday 31 January 2015 12:00
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
Take housing off the market
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.
How to house Britain
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…
Property: The vultures gather [updated]
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.
East London mothers fight for housing
24 October 2014
Women in east London are fighting a spirited campaign to stop evictions and to house local people in local estates.
Housing: Fake boom
House prices in London have risen by 17 per cent in the past 12 months – a disastrous and artificial boom.
Boom produces bust
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.