Greater Manchester Housing Action is an organisation at the forefront of fighting Manchesterâs neoliberal urban development. Members Tom Gillespie, Isaac Rose and Jonathan Silver explore the role that Blairite 'urban entrepreneurialism' has played in both the cynical commodification of Manchester's rich cultural heritage and the burgeoning housing crisis in the city.Â
Residents in South Leeds are fighting back against private developers who want to demolish their affordable homes and break apart their community. Community organiser Luke Dukinfield reports on the resistance of local residents in the LS26 Save Our Homes campaign.
Cities in the UK are reproducing the pattern of those in other countries, where the poor and non-white are consigned to the periphery. Where housing is more affordable, but where poverty and social alienation are widespread. Glyn Robbins on the covert institutional racism of UK housing policy.
Luci Cavallero and VerĂłnica Gago on on the compounding crises of personal debt, a pandemic recession, and patriarchal powerÂ
Capitalists are already using the state to reshape our cities â we need to wield it in a radically different way to serve the interests of working people.
From the first ever council estate in Shoreditch, to ErnĹ Goldfinger's privatised masterpiece, these buildings represent one of the most important struggles of our times â the drive for decent housing for all.Â
Key reading on our cities and the geography of inequality, politics, and identity.
How a Black United Front in Harlem, the Studentsâ Afro American Society, and Students for a Democratic Society took on Columbia University, Mayor John Lindsay, the New York Times, the NYPD in 1968 â and won!
New York City and the real estate interests that run it decided long ago that working class lives are worth gambling with.
Housing Action Southwark and Lambeth support the migrant families resisting inhumane housing conditions in Southwark and Lambeth.Â
No one denies there is a housing crisis in London. Well, no one apart from Southwark council, who instead have chosen to blame some of their most vulnerable residents for their housing situations. Members of Housing Action Southwark and Lambeth, living in statutorily overcrowded housing, were shocked to receive letters from the council telling them that their housing conditions had been caused by a 'deliberate act' by the families. Because the overcrowding was deemed a 'deliberate act' the council would not be giving them priority on the housing waiting list that they should be eligible for.
