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Report: London Councils Paid Private Landlords £15.8m in a Year to Get Them to Rent to Homeless Families

Exclusive: Data obtained by Novara Media shows that London councils are paying landlords costly incentives to house tenants who are homeless or at risk of homelessness in private rented properties - many of them in poor condition. Nye Jones reports.

Local Election Results

Michael Walker, Dawn Foster and Richard Seymour take a look at the local election results.

Long Read: ‘This is the next big battle’: Haringey Labour and the Future of Local Government

Opposition to the Haringey Development Vehicle has continually been met with the old response that ‘there is no alternative’. Local campaigners, however, have radical visions for the future of the borough.

How Can We Make Labour Councils Fight Austerity? The View From Bristol

Bristol's mayor, Marvin Rees, has boxed clever on the anti-austerity surge within Labour. Yet the question of how to turn local government into a vehicle to stop cuts - and whether doing so is possible with the Tories in Whitehall - has divided the left.

London Councils Are Failing Migrants Under Section 17

New information obtained through Freedom of Information requests by Housing Action Southwark and Lambeth reveals the devastating inadequacy of housing support provided by London councils, particularly for migrant families.

How Local Authority Debt is Draining Millions from Public Funds

Inspired by similar campaigns in Spain, Greece and the global south, Debt Resistance UK has delved into the finances of local government to show how the financial system is siphoning public money into private pockets.