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Colour-co-ordinated laundry hanging out to dry in the background, children play in the parking lot of Cissie Gool House, an unused government hospital in the Woodstock neighbourhood, occupied by 700 evictees from the area since 2017.LERATO MADUN

22 Jun 2021 6 minute read

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Fighting dispossession

Citizens’ groups are resisting gentrification, evictions and housing inequality in urban South Africa in a variety of...

23 Aug 2020 3 minute read

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What if…landlords were abolished?

Amy Hall makes the case for people-powered housing.

Locals are still not allowed back to their neighbourhood in Sur, ravaged by the Turkish army and PKK militants in 2015, then flattened by bulldozers. Sertac Kayar/Reuters

27 Jul 2020 4 minute read

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Dreaming of Sur

Five years after bombarding the historic neighbourhood of Sur, the Turkish state still wants to keep Kurdish residents out....

An elderly man wearing a protective face mask passes a sign publicizing a rent strike during the global outbreak of the coronavirus in Toronto, Ontario, Canada April 6, 2020. REUTERS/Chris Helgren/File Photo

26 May 2020 7 minute read

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Can’t pay, won’t pay

The Covid-19 crisis has triggered an international rent strike. Amy Hall reports on the housing activists...

8 Aug 2019 6 minute read

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How private equity eroded the right to housing

The UN expert on housing explains how, almost overnight, private equity firms became the biggest landlords in the world.

5 Aug 2018 3 minute read

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How to make housing a human right

In major US cities, working people have been all but priced out, pushed into ever more distant fringes and suburbs. ...

A march on the one year anniversary of the Grenfell Tower fire. The LRB’s Andrew O’Hagan can’t rewrite the Grenfell narrative, argues rapper Potent Whisper.

20 Jun 2018 4 minute read

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You’ll never edit Grenfell

The LRB’s Andrew O’Hagan can’t rewrite the Grenfell narrative, argues rapper Potent Whisper.

A sketch of the proposed plan for the Camley Street sustainable development. Photo by Karukasevic and Carson architects

23 Jan 2018 7 minute read

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Priced out no more: how a London group defied gentrification

Radical plans might transform the way we approach development. Alessio Perrone reports.

17 Jan 2018 1 minute read

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Watch: Grenfell community’s Silent Walk for justice

Last weekend, a silent march commemorated the victims of the tragedy and demanded justice. Pablo Navarrete ...

28 Sep 2017 2 minute read

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Requiem 4 Grenfell

A visual poem for those affected by the tragedy, by Julio Etchart.

Community action for affordable London homes

31 Aug 2017 2 minute read

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Community action for affordable London homes

An inner-city neighbourhood in north London has a radical plan to fight gentrification, writes Alessio Perrone...

28 Jun 2017 5 minute read

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‘We are with you’: 22 East London housing estates stand in solidarity with Grenfell

A gesture of love and solidarity from estates and communities in East London to Grenfell and their local community.

1 Jun 2017 10 minute read

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Finding home: Lack of affordable housing is a crisis across the West

With house prices and rents soaring, can there be a remedy to homelessness? Wayne Ellwood investigates.

1 Jun 2017 5 minute read

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How do you break the homelessness cycle?

Sian Griffiths reports on a no-nonsense movement which is reshaping traditional solutions to chronic...

2 Feb 2017 3 minute read

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Homeless in a city of empty properties

News of squatters in a Russian oligarch’s London house gives Mari Marcel Thekaekara pause for thought.

1 Jan 2017 7 minute read

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Then & Now

A photographic account of changes over the years in: housing; water; education; health; sanitation; food and farming;...

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