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Report: ‘This is Our Home’: The Ex-Mining Community Fighting Demolitions in Yorkshire

by Ethan Shone

Residents of Wordsworth Drive and Sugar Hill Close, a privately-owned social housing estate in Oulton near Leeds, are fighting a developer seeking to demolish their homes and replace them with new, market-rate housing. Ethan Shone reports.

Demolish and Gentrify: The London Model Moves West

by Tom Youngman

It’s a familiar story to Londoners: the bulldozing of social-rented neighbourhoods to make way for luxury, market-rent housing. But with the planned demolition of the Foxhill Estate in Bath, London-model gentrification is breaching new frontiers.