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Feature: Labour’s Building Blitz Won’t Fix the Housing Crisis, Experts Say

Aron Penczu

Even if built, Labour’s promised 1.5m new homes will not move the dial on house prices, rents, or homelessness, say experts. They probably won’t even keep up with population growth. Aron Penczu reports.

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Report: This Landlord Used a Legal Loophole to Boot Out His Renters in Just 11 Days

Rivkah Brown

Paul Odell backtracked on a contract at the last minute, giving his tenants just days to get out. Rivkah Brown reports.

St Mungo's workers on a picket line. @SMUnite on Twitter

Report: Striking Workers Say Homeless Charity Has Lost Its Way

Polly Smythe

Workers at St Mungo’s have announced an indefinite strike over pay, and have spoken out against burn-out, spiraling executive pay, and dodgy deals with the home office. Polly Smythe reports.

riot police patrol through the street while a local resident watches from their front garden

Feature: Did Riot Police Illegally Evict a Homeless Shelter?

Rivkah Brown

Earlier this month, around 100 riot cops descended on a homeless shelter in east London. The police insist everything was above board. Evidence suggests otherwise. Rivkah Brown reports.

A building with a redbrick facade, shuttered ground floor windows and a white stone Mary affixed to it is covered almost entirely with a banner made of old clothes sewn together

Report: These Nuns Helped the Homeless Until They Showed Up On Their Doorstep

Rivkah Brown

When squatters set up a homeless shelter in a disused convent, they thought the nuns – whose religious order prides itself on helping the homeless – might show mercy. They called the police. Rivkah Brown reports.

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Opinion: $5m in Reparations for Every Black Adult? I’m Listening

Maurice Mcleod

San Francisco made headlines last week after a committee made major proposals for how the city can compensate its Black citizens. They’re totally unrealistic, and that’s the point, writes Maurice Mcleod.

Opinion: The Crackdown on Nos Isn’t About Anti-Social Behaviour – It’s About Social Control

Moya Lothian-McLean

The government’s ban on nitrous oxide is the perfect springboard for a wider crackdown on ‘anti-social behaviour’, writes Moya Lothian McLean.

Opinion: I Have Mixed Feelings About South London’s New Tube Stations

Aydin Dikerdem

The shiny new development was paid for with money meant for affordable housing, writes local Labour councillor Aydin Dikerdem.

Opinion: My Community Helped Me Resist Eviction. Now the Council Wants to Move Me Away

Nadia Zaman

When her landlord tried to evict her, Nadia Zaman fought back. But now the council has given her a choice: Stoke-on-Trent or the streets. Novara Media spoke to Zaman about her fight for secure local housing.

Report: The Tories’ Furlough Delay Has Led to Thousands of Needless Redundancies

Francesca Newton

As a result of the government's repeated and false insistence that there would be no extension to furlough, thousands of people across the UK have lost their jobs unnecessarily. Francesca Newton reports.

Report: ‘It Scares Me to Think Where We’ll End Up’: The Renters Facing Homelessness Now the Eviction Ban Has Lifted

HG

With the eviction ban lifted this week, thousands of renters have found themselves faced with the prospect of being made homeless during a global pandemic. Joining calls from activists and campaign groups, they are demanding that they be protected, reports HG.

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

Nye Jones

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.

Opinion: I Work With People Experiencing Homelessness – for Them, the Crisis Is Worsening by the Day

Tom Zagoria

Despite the government preening itself with manipulated statistics, homelessness in the UK is set to rise to historic levels. It is therefore vital that we oppose this unjust system, demanding that no one is left behind, argues shelter worker and activist Tom Zagoria.

Opinion: The Tories Are Pushing People Back on to the Streets Because Rough Sleeping Serves a Political Purpose

Last Friday news broke that the government was quietly winding up local authority funding that had been allocated to house rough sleepers in hotels during the pandemic. Nye Jones argues they’ve done this because the suffering of rough sleepers serves as a warning.

‘I’m terrified of going back to the streets’: Coronavirus Shows We Could End Street Homelessness

HG

The government have housed thousands of homeless people overnight, but campaigners say extra support must extend beyond lockdown or rough sleepers will be worse off than before, writes HG.

Ordered Home Without a Home: Italy’s Rough Sleepers Suffer Under Quarantine Rules

Ben Munster

With Italy on lockdown and introducing harsh new rules, it's the country's over 50,000 rough sleepers who have been hit the hardest, writes Ben Munster.

Ash Wednesday: What Do London’s Rough Sleepers Think About the General Election?

What do London’s rough sleepers think of the general election? Ash Sarkar went and asked some of them.

Novara FM: Where Will We Live?

James Butler is joined by Anna Minton, author of Ground Control and Big Capital, to ask: could this be a housing election?

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Feature: Labour’s Building Blitz Won’t Fix the Housing Crisis, Experts Say

Aron Penczu

Report: This Landlord Used a Legal Loophole to Boot Out His Renters in Just 11 Days

Rivkah Brown

Report: These Nuns Helped the Homeless Until They Showed Up On Their Doorstep

Rivkah Brown

Opinion: $5m in Reparations for Every Black Adult? I’m Listening

Maurice Mcleod

Opinion: The Crackdown on Nos Isn’t About Anti-Social Behaviour – It’s About Social Control

Moya Lothian-McLean

Opinion: I Have Mixed Feelings About South London’s New Tube Stations

Aydin Dikerdem

Report: The Tories’ Furlough Delay Has Led to Thousands of Needless Redundancies

Francesca Newton

Report: ‘It Scares Me to Think Where We’ll End Up’: The Renters Facing Homelessness Now the Eviction Ban Has Lifted

HG

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

Nye Jones

Opinion: I Work With People Experiencing Homelessness – for Them, the Crisis Is Worsening by the Day

Tom Zagoria

Opinion: The Tories Are Pushing People Back on to the Streets Because Rough Sleeping Serves a Political Purpose

Nye Jones

‘I’m terrified of going back to the streets’: Coronavirus Shows We Could End Street Homelessness

HG

Ordered Home Without a Home: Italy’s Rough Sleepers Suffer Under Quarantine Rules

Ben Munster

Ash Wednesday: What Do London’s Rough Sleepers Think About the General Election?

Novara FM: Where Will We Live?

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Feature: Labour’s Building Blitz Won’t Fix the Housing Crisis, Experts Say

Aron Penczu

Report: This Landlord Used a Legal Loophole to Boot Out His Renters in Just 11 Days

Rivkah Brown

Report: Striking Workers Say Homeless Charity Has Lost Its Way

Polly Smythe

Feature: Did Riot Police Illegally Evict a Homeless Shelter?

Rivkah Brown

Report: These Nuns Helped the Homeless Until They Showed Up On Their Doorstep

Rivkah Brown

Opinion: $5m in Reparations for Every Black Adult? I’m Listening

Maurice Mcleod

Opinion: The Crackdown on Nos Isn’t About Anti-Social Behaviour – It’s About Social Control

Moya Lothian-McLean

Opinion: I Have Mixed Feelings About South London’s New Tube Stations

Aydin Dikerdem

Opinion: My Community Helped Me Resist Eviction. Now the Council Wants to Move Me Away

Nadia Zaman

Report: The Tories’ Furlough Delay Has Led to Thousands of Needless Redundancies

Francesca Newton

Report: ‘It Scares Me to Think Where We’ll End Up’: The Renters Facing Homelessness Now the Eviction Ban Has Lifted

HG

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

Nye Jones

Opinion: I Work With People Experiencing Homelessness – for Them, the Crisis Is Worsening by the Day

Tom Zagoria

Opinion: The Tories Are Pushing People Back on to the Streets Because Rough Sleeping Serves a Political Purpose

Nye Jones

‘I’m terrified of going back to the streets’: Coronavirus Shows We Could End Street Homelessness

HG

Ordered Home Without a Home: Italy’s Rough Sleepers Suffer Under Quarantine Rules

Ben Munster

Ash Wednesday: What Do London’s Rough Sleepers Think About the General Election?

Novara FM: Where Will We Live?

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