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Thousands of people took a huge hit to their housing benefits on Monday of this week. The first part of the Tories’ benefit cap came into force in the majority of Britain’s councils.

Campaign groups against the bedroom tax from towns and estates across Greater Manchester were set to launch a city-wide federation on Saturday of this week.

One housing worker and one bailiff were shot on Wednesday of last week, by a tenant they were trying to evict in Brixton, south London.

Viewpark Against the Bedroom Tax held a 4 July barbecue in the front garden of North Lanarkshire Council offices.

Tory bedroom tax minister Lord Freud was far from welcome in Manchester last week.

 Around 150 support workers struck for three days at One Housing Group sites across London last week against severe cuts to their wages.

Tory benefit cuts minister Lord Freud threw down a gauntlet to council leaders last week. 

Tenants in Manchester are demanding the right to speak at the Chartered Institute of Housing in the city this week.

Manchester campaigners have shown it is possible to stop evictions over new benefit cuts, writes Dave Sewell

More than 300 people marched through Birmingham last Saturday, in memory of Stephanie Bottrill.

Some 150 workers at One Housing Group were set to strike from Wednesday to Friday this week. They are members of the Unite union.

The government’s hated bedroom tax came into force on 1 April. But the policy—and the Tories’ thin justifications for it—are already starting to fall apart, writes Dave Sewell