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“【Caption】Charities urge government to ban no-fault evictions and accelerate housebuilding”

“【Caption】Independent investigation comes as more than 1.2 million families languish on waiting list for properties”

“【Caption】Procurement professionals require a varied skillset and have a huge role to play in helping the sector build and improve standards of existing homes. However, recruitment has proved difficult recently.”

“【Caption】Nicole Bent and her daughter are among dozens of homeless families being put up by council in hotel rooms”

“【Introduction】Thousands of homeless people placed in temporary accommodation across England are faced with severe overcrowding, with hundreds ― including families with children ― stuck in cramped conditions for months at a time.”

“【Caption】'Lendlease wants to build an office block whether local residents like it or not. We’re fighting the power'”

“【Quot.】Focus E15 campaign joined members of London Renters Union (LRU) and PEACH outside the town hall. With placards, banners and flags flying there were speeches and chants on the megaphone. It was lively and militant.”

“【Caption】Landlords would be banned from evicting tenants with no justification as part of a long-promised overhaul of the private rental sector in England.”

“【Caption】Exclusive: ministers plan to exempt asylum seekers’ landlords from rules including minimum room sizes”

“【Caption】Number of families stuck in temporary rooms for more than six weeks is highest since 2003”

“【Introduction】Special Investigation: Mould covering windows and walls next to sleeping children. Ceilings collapsing feet away from tenants. Complaints ignored, evictions threatened. Nadine White hears the stories that lay bare the plight of non-white renters across the country”

“【Caption】7,500 people used to live on the Aylesbury Estate. Now it’s a ghost town ― but one woman is determined to stay”

“【Quot.】Ms Dennis states: “Aylesbury estate was built for working class communities to live safely and securely. Now it is the site of a battle between our communities, and the councils and private developers who seek to demolish and privatise our homes. We cannot allow them to spread insecurity and socially cleanse us. We demand no demolition, no privatisation ― refurbishment, security and justice!””

“【Caption】Exclusive: Aysen Dennis says plans to bulldoze Aylesbury estate are unlawful and amount to ‘social cleansing’”

“【Caption】On the condemned Aylesbury Estate, one woman’s flat has been transformed to celebrate her community’s resistance”

“【Caption】Lack of shelters may be forcing victims to return to their violent partners or leaving them homeless”

“【Quot.】Aysan said: “It’s going to be a one-of-a-kind exhibition which is showing off the fight that we’ve been going through.｜“There will be leaflets, pictures ― we’ve got lot os of documents and information that we are using. It’s telling our story… reflecting the councillors’ and campaigners’ story, it’s our perspective.””

“【Caption】'Fight 4 Aylesbury: An Evening of Live Music’ is being held at Avalon Cafe, SE14 5RZ”

“【Caption】Political demands expressed through experiments in living can lay powerful foundations.”

“【Caption】When it came to blaming the victims of the housing crisis, Southwark council’s housing office seemed to take inspiration from the Home Office and even pioneered/pre-empted a recent Home Office policy of telling homeless families to go on zoopla, writes Izzy Koksal.”

“【Quot.】There will be no let up in campaigning while these families are still living in the hostel or being moved into damp, overcrowded, substandard homes and being labelled intentionally homeless for even questioning a housing offer.”

“【Caption】London housing estate residents must now be balloted on redevelopment plans. But in practice, the process is wanting”

“【Caption】New data gathered by Inside Housing shows a city’s-worth of under fives are homeless and living in temporary accommodation. Peter Apps reports.”

“【Caption】Tenants unions are demanding a rent freeze amid spiralling prices and evictions as winter closes in.”

“【Caption】From Manchester to London, three people tell of stress, fear and eviction as cost of private renting rockets”

“【Caption】Government focus on homes at higher ‘affordable’ rent helps fuel drastic shortage with demand poised to surge”

“【Caption】The family could be out on the streets in a matter of days”

“【Exordium】Hundreds of homeless families and those living in overcrowded housing marched on Downing Street calling for family-sized council homes for Londoners.｜In one of the biggest housing protests that London has seen in years families who have been suffering at the worst end of the housing crisis demanded immediate action from the Government to end it.｜Families from Housing Action Southwark and Lambeth (HASL), gathered at Parliament Square Gardens before marching on 10 Downing Street.”

“【Caption】Parents and children living in overcrowded housing in London called on ministers to deliver more affordable homes for families in protest.”

“【Exordium】A recent visit to Berlin has given me much cause to reflect on the thorny topic of how to win better housing for everyone. I have been part of the London Renters Union for 5 years and while little in housing has improved in that time, we have always been able to comfort ourselves with the idea that if we can organise more people we’ll get there eventually. To go to Berlin is to encounter a city that has organised more people for better housing. The Deutsche Wohnen Expropriation campaign recently called a city-level referendum on taking back into public ownership 240,000 flats owned by big landlords. Amazingly, after much organising that involved many people who had never before campaigned on housing, they won the referendum.”

“【Caption】Extending Scotland’s rent freeze would help millions of renters like me who are struggling to pay their bills”

“【Exordium】Plans to bulldoze council homes will be put on pause under proposals to review an estate revamp so it offers more affordable housing.｜Wandsworth council’s new Labour administration said the number of council homes previously proposed for the Alton Estate in Roehampton was “simply not enough”.”

“【Caption】People before profits”／“【Introduction】As the Scottish government announces a rent freeze, an activist with Living Rent who fought and won shares how they did it, and what must come next.”

“【Caption】Landlords warn cap will mean less investment in housing stock while charity calls on tenants to refuse to pay any rent increases”

“【Caption】The campaign will lobby government to give councils in England the power to refuse homes being converted into Airbnbs.”

“【Caption】Far from being a radical idea, some form of rent control is a tried, tested and proportionate response to an out-of-control situation, writes Gordon Maloney”

“【Caption】Housing has become less about shelter and more about extracting profit. How has that way of thinking changed the market and what are housing advocates trying to do about it? In our new series―Homes or Cash Cows―Shelterforce explores the financialization of housing.”

“【Caption】Families in multimillion-pound One Tower Bridge development told games ‘breached tenancy agreements’”

“【Caption】Lewisham Council intends to demolish their homes”

“【Caption】As average rents skyrocket, tenants are being asked to pay huge sums in advance. Moya Crockett investigates a system on the brink”／“【Introduction】Two months ago, Freya Feilding decided she was ready to move in with her boyfriend. The 28-year-old medical researcher told her three housemates she’d be leaving their rented terrace in Camberwell, gave notice to her landlord and started searching for a new flat.”

“【Caption】Prices adding to cost of living crisis blamed on demand exceeding supply and rising interest rates”

“【Introduction】A single company received £4.59m from Manchester city council for providing temporary accommodation for homeless households in the 2020-21 financial year, a freedom of information request submitted by the Meteor to the council shows.”

“【Caption】Property guardians across London have launched a boycott of Dot Dot Dot after it threatened to increase rents by more than 100%. Now, they’ve united to resist.”

“【Caption】Private rentals white paper also includes clampdown on unfit homes and plans to tackle bad landlords”

“【Caption】Landlords said they fear many will sell up and stop renting homes due to Wales' new housing rules.”

“【Caption】Two major developments are due to be decided by the planning committee”／“【Exordium】Developers behind plans for two new apartment blocks in Manchester city centre must pay more towards affordable housing, a local councillor has said.｜Between them, developments in Port Street peaking at 34 storeys tall and the 13-storey tower in Store Street would feature 500 flats ― none affordable. This falls short of the council's policy of 20 pc for developments of this size.”

“【Exordium】At Newham’s well-attended public Annual Council Meeting on Wednesday 25 May, mothers and children of 10 Victoria Street, Stratford E15 (formerly called Brimstone House and Focus E15 foyer) stood up with banners and placards to make their voices heard about the unacceptable conditions in the building. They were brave and strong acting in solidarity together.”

“【Caption】Southwark council had refused to provide priority housing for the family.”

障害者と住環境（イギリス）

“【Exordium】As children, Rianna and Lauren Campbell-Thompson shared a bedroom. Lauren took the top bunk and Rianna, who has cerebral palsy and uses a wheelchair, took the bottom. Eventually Rianna moved to the room across the landing. It’s a distance of a few feet, but one Rianna cannot cross ― the landing is too narrow for her wheelchair.｜Rianna has not seen her twin’s room since about 2003. Instead, Lauren shows her photos.”／“【Quot.】She said: “If you had no food in your house, and you needed to feed your children, you’d go out there and do anything you can to bring a meal to the table. It’s the same. We’re a family with children with disabilities, if they need that extra room or whatever, you know, do it. Don’t give up.””

“【Caption】Finding decent accommodation is hard enough for ‘generation rent’ millennials ― but for young disabled people a nightmare shortage of accessible housing is ruining lives and career prospects”

スクウォット［Squat］（イギリス）

“【Caption】After the Second World War, Britain faced an acute shortage of homes. The remarkable outbreak of civil disobedience that followed is being remembered as part of a two-month festival of working-class history in South Bristol.”

アメリカ・カナダ

“【Exordium】Mutual Housing California, a large affordable housing nonprofit, is threatening to evict at least two tenants from Sacramento apartments.”

“The documentary Rabble Rousers tells the story of the New York activists who overcame enormous odds to build the Cooper Square community land trust ― and points to the limits of movements that don’t contend for broader control over the state and capital.”

“【Caption】In New York, the real estate industry and the politicians in its pocket both reign supreme. These tenants have a plan to change that forever.”

“【Exordium】Maintenance workers installed new vinyl in Ruth Perez’s one bedroom apartment over floorboards that sag under foot. They put a new drain pipe in a sink that still clogs. They screwed new cabinet hinges into rotted wood. And they haven’t yet bothered to replace the stained carpet, or the heavy wooden closet doors that keep coming off their tracks.”

“【Exordium】At the start of the COVID-19 pandemic in March 2020, more than a dozen families that were homeless or at risk of losing housing seized vacant, publicly owned homes in El Sereno, an action they said was driven by the astronomical costs of living in Los Angeles and the need to shelter from the virus.｜Some have remained, taking advantage of a deal that allowed them to stay legally in single-family bungalows owned by the state. Families have planted gardens outside the homes and sent their children to neighborhood schools.｜But now, nearly three years later, their leases are expiring, and they aren’t allowed to renew them. A standoff is emerging between public officials eager for the families to move out and some families that don’t want to.”

“【Quot.】Immediately, Gordillo was confronted with the reality of five people stuffed into a 350-square-foot studio in one of the most overcrowded neighborhoods in the United States.｜Gordillo and her husband set up a queen mattress for themselves and a triple-decker bunk bed, an arm’s length away, for the children. The two-story, century-old Period Revival building housed 20 families squeezed so close together that Gordillo could hear whenever her neighbors used the bathroom.”

“【Caption】For the 44 million households who rent a home or apartment in the U.S., inflation keeps pushing costs higher and higher. Anger is rising too. It could be a breaking point.”

“【Exordium】After nearly three years of COVID-19 emergency restrictions, landlords will once again be allowed to evict tenants who have fallen behind on their rent, the L.A. City Council decided Tuesday.｜The unanimous vote allows the eviction protections, some of the longest-lasting in the country, to end starting Feb. 1.”

“【Introduction】“Iwant you to fight, I want you to organize, I want you to talk to your neighbors, I want you to have a meeting, I want you to get a spreadsheet and just the same way that we can organize a barbecue, we can all figure out what it means to actually take control of some of these housing units,” says organizer Sterling Johnson. In this episode, host Kelly Hayes talks with Johnson and UC Townhome resident Rasheda Alexander about gentrification, organized abandonment and an ongoing struggle in West Philadelphia, where dozens of families are resisting the demolition of a 70-unit housing development.”

“【Caption】With financial help from the Alliance of Californians for Community Empowerment and the Oakland Community Land Trust, the tenants all bought the 14-unit apartment building for $3.3 million using city bond funds.”

“【Quot.】The website they created resembles tax-return-filing software. It asks tenants a long series of questions in relatively plain English, or Spanish, that produces a legal document they can print and submit in court. Tenants in Los Angeles County can file the paperwork electronically. If they choose, tenants can connect to other tenants and legal aid organizations through the website.”

“【Caption】Homeownership is out of reach for millions in Canada and the US. One well-meaning response to this crisis has been to call for more affordable housing. But we should be demanding more social housing instead.”

ラテンアメリカ

“【Caption】Read the editor's introduction to our latest issue of the NACLA Report, "Fighting for Housing Justice in the Americas."”

ドイツ

“【Caption】In cities across Germany, the Mietshäuser Syndikat is helping working-class people to set up collective housing projects ― and taking homes out of the hands of profiteers for good.”

スペイン

“【Caption】Barcelona Mayor Ada Colau has taken housing out of the hands of profiteers. In tomorrow's election, she aims to prove that socialists can reject the market-led development of our cities ― and win.”

総説

“【Caption】Buy To Let landlords have played such a big role in inflating the current housing bubble, that serious attempts to rein in landlord extractivism would likely trigger a house price crash. The vast majority of voters are home owners. So how can we persuade governments to end the exploitation and precarity suffered by renters?”

“【Caption】...or, Why Landlordism is Inherently Exploititative”

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“【Introduction】Has your rent gone up recently or are you worried about the cost of housing? You’re not alone. More than 1 million renters per month are having their rent put up every month and LRU members are facing rent increases of £5,000 per year or more.”

“【Description】Over the last 6 months, Southwark Notes and Ultra-red, alongside Latin Elephant and researchers from the University of Warwick, have been running what we call Practical Listening Sessions on various council estates and sites of prospective development in the borough. We heard from campaigns on Elmington Estate and Aylesbury Estate about long histories of tenant and resident organising against “regeneration.” We also heard from people on Nunhead Estate about their recent opposition to Council plans for Roof Top Homes on their blocks. We also hosted a walk through Peckham looking at contested sites of development like the Aylesham Shopping Centre and Peckham Arch.”

“A sharing event based on looking together at archival histories and bringing your own stories.｜Mapping out a timeline of the marginalised Black & POC/PGM squatting history to see what's missing and how to access these forgotten movements. Putting these histories to practical use by inspiring new squatting communities!”

“Hear about the fight for decent long term housing from residents living at Victoria Street hostel. Plan the next steps.”

“Housing as health, housing as community, housing as liberatory ― that is the future we are working toward. Bright and bold housing futures for our communities mean new models and approaches that are unapologetically inclusive of all, imagined and made possible by the brilliance, insights, and guidance from the communities most impacted by housing inequities.”／“Housing Futures Month calls on each of us to consider how we can contribute to designing and implementing housing models that allow everyone the stability and ability to dream about and pursue bold futures.”

■組織

“【Description】A new group has been launched called Wandsworth Action Against Empty Homes which has called a protest for the Day of Action on Empty Homes on Saturday 22nd October and has put forward demands to deal with the housing crisis in the borough”

■情報集約ページ

“The Tenant Power Toolkit is a collaborative effort between the The Debt Collective, The LA Tenants Union, The Anti-Eviction Mapping Project, anti-eviction lawyers and legal service providers including Gary Blasi, one of California’s best known housing justice lawyers. We designed this toolkit to keep people in their homes, fight evictions, fight rent debt, and build the collective power of tenants. Together, we have the power not only to fight back against the system, but to change it.”

“Many of us are struggling to pay rent or face eviction because of the pandemic. The government is prioritising the interests of landlords over the rest of us.｜Renters across the city are getting organised and are standing up to landlords and preventing evictions. We’re pressuring the government to introduce greater protections for renters including a permanent ban on evictions.”