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Some 60 angry tenants and housing campaigners lobbied the annual meeting of Haringey Council on Monday of this week to oppose housing demolitions and attacks on tenants' rights.

Workers at One Housing Group in London struck from Friday of last week to Monday of this week.  The Unite union members are angry at the suspension of their steward Bryan Kennedy.

Henrique Sanchez says big business will be the real winner of the World Cup—while ordinary Brazilians are losing their homes

Over 100 people came to a meeting on London’s Housing crisis called by Waltham Forest and Redbridge trades councils on Wednesday of last week.

The hearing of suspended Unite union rep Bryan Kennedy at One Housing Group in London has been postponed due to illness.

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Protests took place across Britain last Saturday to mark the first birthday of the bedroom tax, and to make sure it doesn’t see a second.

All that is Solid, published by Allen Lane, £20.00

Geographer Danny Dorling spoke to Dave Sewell about his new book All That is Solid: The Great Housing Disaster, and how government housing policy is creating problems, not solving them. Dorling argues for the return of council housing and the abolition of the bedroom tax

A Unite union convenor at London’s One Housing Group was suspended last week in what activists see as an attempt to victimise him.

Over 100 people crammed into the Glasgow Unison union’s office last Sunday for the Scottish Anti Bedroom Tax Federation’s national committee. 

Homeless mothers in Stratford, east London, occupied Newham council’s housing offices and the East Thames Housing Association building last Saturday.