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Activists and residents have occupied the Thurlow Lodge community hall on the Aylesbury Estate in Southwark, south London.

Fourteen “garden villages” are set to be built as part of the Tories’ plan to tackle the housing crisis. And three more “garden towns” are supposed to bring the total of new homes created by the scheme to 200,000.

The plan to redevelop vast swathes of Haringey, north London, had a spanner thrown in the works last month.

The Tories’ assault on council housing hit a setback this week when housing minister Gavin Barwell announced that planned mandatory “Pay to Stay” rent hikes were being scrapped.

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A tightening of the benefit cap from this week will make up to 150,000 more households unable to pay their rent. It would also affect over 300,000 children.

Residents from the Boundary House temporary accommodation facility in Welwyn Garden City, Hertfordshire, held a protest last Friday.

A summit meeting in London last month to plan next steps against the Housing and Planning Act drew 250 people in a serious and determined mood. They included council, housing association, co-op and private tenants, union members and several local councillors. Among them was the elected mayor of Hackney, Philip Glanville, who repeated his council’s...

The campaign against the Tories’ hated Housing and Planning Act took a big step forward yesterday, Saturday, with a 300-strong summit of activists, tenants, residents and councillors.

Alistair Farrow goes undercover at the Mipim UK property speculators' convention

Four in ten homes in Britain are either too expensive, too cramped or too shabby to live in, according to housing charity Shelter.

Activists protested outside the annual Stirling Awards for architecture on Thursday of last week.