The corporate capitalists are trying to gentrify Peckham – so Southwark residents are fighting back
On Saturday 1 March, Southwark residents will take to the streets in a powerful protest against the UK government’s handling ...
Tag: housing
A Labour council has let rogue landlords illegally rent out social housing
Independent media outlet News From Crystal Palace has exposed alarming practices involving council-owned properties in Lambeth. It has discovered that ...
Labour’s 1.5m homes will be dominated by private equity firms charging huge rents
The Labour Party's pledge to build 1.5m new homes over this parliament risks being dominated by private equity in the ...
To tackle the housing, climate, and biodiversity crises, Labour must fix the rigged planning system
More than a century of unsustainable farming practices and urban development have taken their toll on nature and resulted in ...
Jeremy Corbyn talks more sense on housing in one BBC interview than parliament ever does
In an interview for BBC London, former Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn ended the nonsense on housing through demanding the government ...
An outrage: private rents have risen by as much as 72% in just TEN years
The latest research by Tlyfe, the UK’s housing tenant lifecycle app launched by OpenBrix, has revealed that, over the last decade, ...
Labour just gave crumbs to desperate leaseholders: a ‘drop in the ocean’
In November 2024 Labour Party housing minister Matthew Pennycook made the promise to leaseholders. It was that he would put ...
Landlords banked £56.2bn in rent from young people in ONE year. We need to end the scam immediately.
People under 45 are paying 66% of all rent in Britain. This amounted to a record £56.2bn for 2024, according ...
Scum landlords in LA are price-gouging rentals – but people are putting them ‘on a list’…
In the aftermath of the LA wildfires, residents have created a spreadsheet of landlords who they've caught price-gouging LA rentals ...
£1350-a-month London room rental sparks fury: no heating, no guests, no noise
People on social media have been rightly roasting a London landlord for an extortionately-priced London room rental listing - with ...
The Renters’ Rights Bill is a victory says ACORN – but there’s still a huge flaw
As it enters its final stage in the House of Commons, community union ACORN has heralded the Renters’ Rights Bill ...
Thousands of people are facing eviction in the run up to Christmas
Latest figures have revealed that thousands of people across England and Wales are facing eviction in the lead up to ...
Shocking polling finds majority of public believe governments will NEVER stop homelessness
New polling from the homeless charity St Mungo’s highlights that 57% of surveyed people think that there will always be ...
REVEALED: private landlords like Reeves and Starmer force 690k children into poverty
Both Labour Party prime minister Keir Starmer and chancellor Rachel Reeves are private landlords. They are benefiting from a housing ...
Martin Lewis: we need YOUR help with a massive council tax banding scandal
Martin Lewis has been instrumental in raising awareness of the scandal of incorrect council tax banding. It is a widespread ...
Labour is messing around leaseholders at a time when they need urgent reform
Sunday 24 November marks six months since the Leasehold and Freehold Reform Act 2024 was passed in the wash-up before ...
Sadiq Khan to push government for London rent controls as part of devolution deal
London Mayor Sadiq Khan has said that he is pushing the Labour Party government to include the ability for rent ...
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