Analysis: The Hostile Environment Is Putting Everyone at Greater Risk From Covid
Ella Weldon
The hostile environment isn’t just endangering migrants during the pandemic, it’s endangering us all, writes Ella Weldon.
Tag: housing
Opinion: Cold Homes Kill 10,000 People a Year. Why Isn’t Retrofitting Higher on the Agenda?
Alex D King
Insulate Britain’s tactics might be divisive, but they’re right about one thing, writes Alex D King: retrofitting should be one of the climate movement’s central demands.
Opinion: Why Should Homeowners’ Safety Trump Everyone Else’s?
Rivkah Brown
Michael Gove is protecting “innocent leaseholders” from flammable cladding – but he’s happy for the rest of us to burn, writes Rivkah Brown.
Opinion: Apparently the World Owes Tony Blair a ‘Debt of Gratitude’. I’ll Pass
Aaron Bastani
I’m not bothered about the former PM’s knighthood, writes Aaron Bastani – after all, Mussolini, and Mugabe received similar honours. But it’s bizarre that I’m supposed to thank him for creating more problems than solutions.
Opinion: Union Jacks and Churchill Quotes Won’t Save Insulate Britain
Blyth Brentnall
Insulate Britain's comms strategy aims to enter "the Right’s side of the culture war". But nationalist parochialism will alienate many social housing residents while doing little to blunt the anger of motorists, argues Blyth Brentnall.
Ash Wednesday: Why Owning Stuff Is Better Than Working
Is there such a thing as a good landlord? Britain is being held hostage by a class of people whose only talent is owning stuff, and extracting money from people who don’t. Rents have doubled in the decade following the financial crisis, and the average house price is between 8 and 14 times the average […]
Report: Berlin Just Voted to Abolish Major Corporate Landlords
Isaac Würmann
Berliners have voted to expropriate nearly 250,000 apartments - transferring them from corporate landlords to public ownership. Isaac Würmann reports.
Analysis: Britain Needs to Get Over Its Obsession With Flat Taxes
Ell Folan
From national insurance to council tax, Britain has an unhealthy obsession with flat taxes that hit the poor hardest. It’s time for the British state to be funded fully by progressive taxation, writes Ell Folan.
ACFM: #ACFM Microdose: Spatial Equality With Pooja Agrawal
Nadia Idle explores the future of public space with architect and planner Pooja Agrawal.
Report: A Group of Renters Just Won £19,000 From Their Billionaire Landlord – And They’re Just Getting Started
Rivkah Brown
In a historic victory for renters everywhere, Somerford Grove Renters successfully sued their lawyered-up landlord and are now preparing dozens more suits. If successful, they stand to win half a million pounds. Rivkah Brown reports.
Analysis: Generation Left Might Not Be That Left After All
James Meadway
The left is wrong to take young people’s support for granted, writes James Meadway.
Opinion: Housing Security Transformed My Mental Health
Aaron Bastani
We can’t solve the mental health crisis until we solve the housing crisis, writes Aaron Bastani.
Analysis: Has the Pandemic Shifted Britain Left?
Ell Folan
As we emerge from the pandemic, even the FT is claiming the left has won the argument. Have we really?
Analysis: It’s the Housing Market, Stupid: How Property Became the Battle Line of British Politics
Samuel Earle
How are millionaire property developers and retired homeowners finding common cause in the Conservatives? The answer isn’t shared cultural values, argues Samuel Earle – it’s a shared investment in the housing market.
Report: A Filipino Nurse Is Being Evicted for Having a Less “Durable Connection With the Area” Than Her Landlord’s Daughter
Rivkah Brown
EXCLUSIVE: The care home nurse and her two sons are the latest victims of a state that recently declared itself racism-free.
Opinion: Police Brutality in Bristol Has Shocked the Country. Why Won’t the City’s Labour Politicians Condemn It?
Anna Lart Greene
Labour’s complicity with police savagery is an insult to Bristolians, one they are unlikely to forget come 6 May, writes Bristol student and Labour activist Anna Lart Greene.
Report: Clearsprings: The Worst Asylum Housing Provider You’ve Probably Never Heard Of
Sophie K Rosa
You’ve never heard of them, but asylum seekers have. Clearsprings is one of the many companies to which the government outsources asylum accommodation, and widely known to be the worst.
Novara Live: Shamima Begum Can’t Come Home
The Supreme Court have ruled Shamima Begum has no right to return to Britain to appeal the removal of her citizenship. Is the UK abdicating responsibility?