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Report: Here’s All the Government Handouts Landlords Get

Rivkah Brown

News that the chancellor may force landlords to pay national insurance – why don't they already? – got our reporter Rivkah Brown wondering: what other cushy treatment are landlords getting?

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Opinion: Labour Is Finally Treating Landlords Like the Spoiled Children They Are

Nick Bano

With the recent budget Labour whispered its first words of defiance to the bullying landlord lobby. A little louder for the people at the back, writes Nick Bano.

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Long Read: Jas Athwal Claims He Was Cleared of Sexual Assault. Was He?

Rivkah Brown

The newly elected Labour MP gained instant notoriety as the biggest landlord in the Commons. Less known is that in 2019 he was accused of serious sexual assault. Athwal claims that he was cleared by the party. The truth wasn’t so clear-cut, Novara Media can reveal.

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Feature: Can a Bunch of Tech Nerds Solve the Housing Crisis?

Rivkah Brown

Roost promises to create one million housing co-ops, but its high rents and willingness to work with landlords have turned off housing activists. Is their scepticism warranted? Rivkah Brown reports.

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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.

A terrace of houses with a 'To Let' sign in front of one of them. The entire image is tinted red

Red Flags: I Hate Landlords. How Do I Avoid Becoming One?

Sophie K Rosa

Sophie K Rosa advises the potential inheritor of multiple properties on how to resist the temptations of landlordism.

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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.

Report: ‘It’s a Scandal’: How Property Developers Failed to Sell a Single Flat in Balfron Tower

Ella Jessel

Social tenants were ‘decanted’ from the iconic east London tower block so their flats could be sold for profit. Now nobody wants to buy them.

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Analysis: Polls Show Even Tories Hate Landlords

Ell Folan

Four in 10 Tory voters say ALAB, writes Ell Folan, while 71% of the country thinks landlords who commit housing offences should be jailed.

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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.

Mould covers the walls of L’Oreal Williams's flat. Photos: Courtesy of L'Oreal Williams

Report: This Housing Association Was Started to End Slum Landlords. Then It Became One

Andrew Kersley

Notting Hill Genesis was set up by a social activist to deal with ‘damnable housing conditions’. Now its residents are complaining of exactly that.

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Feature: Where Are the Shadwell Fire Survivors Supposed to Go?

Rivkah Brown

Two months after their state-sanctioned slum burned down, killing one of their housemates, six of the Tower Hamlets fire survivors remain homeless. Rivkah Brown reports.

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Analysis: All Hail the Landlord King

Ell Folan

Charles III owns all of Regent Street, and that’s barely a fraction of his property empire, writes Ell Folan.

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Opinion: I Live in a Housing Co-op. But No One Really Escapes London’s Accommodation Crisis Anymore

Charlotte England

When Charlotte England’s housing coop was built in the 1970s, it was intended as a choice; one option among many. But the rental crisis has made it increasingly difficult for people to leave, and changed what it feels fair to ask for from a home.

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Long Read: How to Make a Home in a Housing Crisis

Sophie K Rosa

It can be hard for alternative ways of living to endure when they defy the brutal, capitalist logic of private property, writes Sophie K Rosa in her new book Radical Intimacy. But everywhere - and even as conditions worsen - people are homemaking out of the rubble.

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Opinion: No Number of Complaints Could Have Saved Mizanur Rahman

Rivkah Brown

Last weekend a man died after a fire broke out in his council-run slum. Under Michael Gove’s new plans, he could be blamed for his own death, writes Rivkah Brown.

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Report: Bailiffs Are Dressing Up Like Police Officers to Scare Tenants Out of Their Homes

Andrew Kersley

Exclusive: S&K property enforcement is showing up to homes wearing outfits that look like police uniforms.

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Report: Here’s All the Government Handouts Landlords Get

Rivkah Brown

Opinion: Labour Is Finally Treating Landlords Like the Spoiled Children They Are

Nick Bano

Long Read: Jas Athwal Claims He Was Cleared of Sexual Assault. Was He?

Rivkah Brown

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

Aron Penczu

Red Flags: I Hate Landlords. How Do I Avoid Becoming One?

Sophie K Rosa

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

Rivkah Brown

Analysis: Polls Show Even Tories Hate Landlords

Ell Folan

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

Rivkah Brown

Report: This Housing Association Was Started to End Slum Landlords. Then It Became One

Andrew Kersley

Analysis: All Hail the Landlord King

Ell Folan

Opinion: I Live in a Housing Co-op. But No One Really Escapes London’s Accommodation Crisis Anymore

Charlotte England

Long Read: How to Make a Home in a Housing Crisis

Sophie K Rosa

Opinion: No Number of Complaints Could Have Saved Mizanur Rahman

Rivkah Brown

Report: Bailiffs Are Dressing Up Like Police Officers to Scare Tenants Out of Their Homes

Andrew Kersley

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Tag: housing crisis

Report: Here’s All the Government Handouts Landlords Get

Rivkah Brown

Opinion: Labour Is Finally Treating Landlords Like the Spoiled Children They Are

Nick Bano

Long Read: Jas Athwal Claims He Was Cleared of Sexual Assault. Was He?

Rivkah Brown

Feature: Can a Bunch of Tech Nerds Solve the Housing Crisis?

Rivkah Brown

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

Aron Penczu

Red Flags: I Hate Landlords. How Do I Avoid Becoming One?

Sophie K Rosa

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

Rivkah Brown

Report: ‘It’s a Scandal’: How Property Developers Failed to Sell a Single Flat in Balfron Tower

Ella Jessel

Analysis: Polls Show Even Tories Hate Landlords

Ell Folan

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

Report: This Housing Association Was Started to End Slum Landlords. Then It Became One

Andrew Kersley

Feature: Where Are the Shadwell Fire Survivors Supposed to Go?

Rivkah Brown

Analysis: All Hail the Landlord King

Ell Folan

Opinion: I Live in a Housing Co-op. But No One Really Escapes London’s Accommodation Crisis Anymore

Charlotte England

Long Read: How to Make a Home in a Housing Crisis

Sophie K Rosa

Opinion: No Number of Complaints Could Have Saved Mizanur Rahman

Rivkah Brown

Report: Bailiffs Are Dressing Up Like Police Officers to Scare Tenants Out of Their Homes

Andrew Kersley

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