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The last remaining family on the Sweets Way estate in Barnet, north London, fought eviction in court last Monday.

Activists from housing campaigns across England and Wales called for a day of action in July and a new March for Homes at a summit in central London last Saturday.

Landlords, councils and developers are lining up for more attacks on housing after the Tories’ latest proposals. 

The housing crisis in Britain is causing misery for millions—and it is about to get even worse as the Tories plan more sell offs, writes Annette Mackin

Tory austerity is wrecking working class lives across Britain—and their latest assault will only make things worse.

Gentrification is often described as a tale of David and Goliath where local residents and local businesses struggle to keep their heads above water against a rising tide of global corporate chain stores and heartless property developers. It is the ground offensive in capitalism’s war on the poor, a street by street up-marketisation of shop...

An all-out walkout by homelessness workers in Glasgow has entered its ninth week—and has got council leaders running scared, reports Raymie Kiernan

Glasgow homelessness caseworkers called for mass pickets involving other Glasgow City Council workers, Unison union members and stewards on Wednesday of this week.

Some 200 anti-eviction activists rallied in solidarity with Nottingham couple Sue and Tom Crawford on Friday of last week. Also: housing protests in London

Homelessness caseworkers in Glasgow are into their fifth week of an all-out strike as council bosses desperately claim that it’s “business as usual”.

Over 150 students living in two halls of residence at Soas university in central London have called a rent strike over their living conditions.

Over 1,000 joined a Reclaim Brixton rally near Umunna’s south London Streatham constituency the previous day.