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Report: Traders In, Developers Out: The Fight for Ridley Road

Charlotte England

An east London community has defeated plans to evict market traders and build luxury flats on their iconic site in Dalston’s Ridley Road market. Charlotte England reports.

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: Is a London Council Trying to Freeze Black and Brown Residents Out of Their Homes During a Pandemic?

Sophie K Rosa

Residents of south London's Aylesbury estate believe the council is trying to drive them out by cutting off their water and heating - a 'cruel' move they say could compound the already elevated threat BAME people face from Covid-19. Sophie K Rosa reports.

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

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.

‘We are not nothing’: The Local Businesses Fighting Gentrification in South East London

Thames Menteth-Wheelwright

A regeneration scheme is set to transform a major arterial road in south east London, turning large portions of industrial land along the Old Kent Road into high-rise tower blocks. While the council argues this will bring new homes and jobs to the area, local people say the scheme threatens hundreds of thriving businesses.

Activists in East London Are Fighting to Stop Property Developers Destroying a Dalston Market

Bethany Holmes

Hackney residents are fighting against the redevelopment of Ridley Road Market, demonstrating how a diverse community can reject neoliberalism’s deterioration of community space and offer grassroots, democratic solutions.

Social Cleansing in Istanbul: Residents of Stigmatised Neighbourhood Fight to Stay in Their Homes

Paul Benjamin Osterlund

An impending earthquake is being used as a pretext to demolish Küçük Armutlu, a stigmatised Istanbul neighbourhood that is home to religious minorities, dissidents, leftists and banned militant groups. But residents aren't giving up without a fight.

The Sofia Solidarity Centre Squat Exposed a Housing Crisis Past Breaking Point

Matt Broomfield

Opened on Great Portland Street as London temperatures dropped to minus ten, the Sofia Solidarity Centre squat housed close to two hundred rough sleepers by the time it was evicted. In addition to providing shelter to some of the city's most vulnerable people, the Centre served as a vigorous embodiment of the housing crisis and showed just how easy it could be to get people off the streets.

Elephant and Castle: Students Protest University’s Role in Gentrification

UAL Students

Students at the University of the Arts London occupied their Southwark campus to protest the part it has to play in the creeping gentrification of Elephant and Castle.

‘What Does Gentrification Mean to You?’ Asking Teenagers in Elephant and Castle

Ciaran Thapar

Youth worker Ciaran Thapar interviews the young people he works with in Elephant and Castle about gentrification in the area.

Homeless Families and Social Cleansing: How Local Councils Are Forcing Vulnerable Households Out of London

Housing Action Southwark & Lambeth

Exclusive: London Councils are ending their homeless duty to vulnerable families by forcing them to accept private rented tenancies hundreds of miles away, outside the capital, FOI's by Housing Action Southwark and Lambeth reveal.

8 Key Findings into Council-Administered Social Cleansing in London

Housing Action Southwark and Lambeth

Housing Action Southwark and Lambeth has used freedom of information (FOI) requests in every London borough to research the effect of the 2011 Localism Act on the rehousing of homeless households. The findings reveal the social cleansing of central London by the hands of local authorities.

7 Ways the Localism Act is Shafting the Homeless and Precariously-Housed

Izzy Koksal

Heard of the Localism Act 2011? Nor have most people, but this seemingly-subtle piece of legislation is having devastating effects on homeless and precariously-housed people as well as social housing more broadly. These effects are only set to be exacerbated, requiring action before we're fire-fighting nationwide social cleansing.

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