Housing Follow

The government’s Housing and Regeneration Bill was debated in parliament on Monday of this week.

Oscar Wilde once wrote that "charity creates a multitude of sins".

As recession looms and Gordon Brown continues to put his faith in the "free market", hundreds of thousands of people are at risk of losing their homes.

"When we were housed here by the council, we were told we would be here for three weeks," says Jenny, who lives on the seventh floor of All Saints Tower on the Beaumont estate in Leyton, east London.

Campaigners will descend on parliament on Tuesday of next week to lobby MPs as an inquiry takes place to hear evidence and amendments to the government’s Housing and Regeneration Bill.

Tenants, trade unionists, councillors and campaigners are set to lobby MPs over the Housing and Regeneration Bill on Tuesday 22 January.

New Labour housing minister Yvette Cooper has claimed the new government plans for housing are "groundbreaking".

There is wide agreement that Britain is in the grip of a housing crisis and it is likely to get worse. The Housing and Regeneration Bill now before parliament does nothing to address this, but instead proposes policies that could have disastrous consequences.

Like many city centres, the skyline of Newcastle is covered in cranes. There is a huge boom in construction. Apartments and office blocks are rising and falling on the same sites that were the heart of city’s corrupt building boom in the 1960s.

The new Housing and Regeneration Bill being pushed through parliament is the latest example of New Labour’s vague promises turning out to be another attack on ordinary people.

Local residents in the Somers Town area of Camden, London are campaigning against the selling off of public land.