Housing Follow

Council tenants in Brighton and Manchester are to vote this week on whether to hand over control of their homes to private companies. The ballots affect over 18,000 homes.

Tenants in Taunton Deane, Somerset, are celebrating victory after defeating proposals to transfer their council houses in a ballot last month. The results of the ballot showed a clear rejection of the transfer proposals—69 percent voted no on a 69 percent turnout.

Two thumping victories for council tenants underline the continuing political backlash against housing privatisation.

Cathy Come Home is arguably the most important piece of drama ever shown on British television. It was first broadcast 40 years ago on 16 November 1966 in the Wednesday Play primetime slot.

As part of the BBC’s No Home series looking at homelessness in Britain today, Brian Woods’s documentary Evicted follows the stories of three young women as their families are made homeless.

House prices in London are going through the roof, pricing ever more people out of the housing market and fuelling an "increasing social divide", according to a recently released report.

The government’s policy of privatising council housing received another blow last week when tenants in Renfrewshire in Scotland voted against transfer of their homes.

Tensions are mounting as the housing bubble nears its limits.

Tenant activist Eileen Short explains why council housing was such a historic achievement - and why we must campaign to defend it.

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Just like the great pensions mis-selling scandals that rocked the UK during the last decade and brought misery to millions, along comes another personal finance disgrace that could swallow up the savings of hundreds of thousands of people.

The Birmingham Defend Council Housing Campaign recall how they inflicted a serious defeat on New Labour.