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Published in: openDemocracyUK: InvestigationGypsies and Travellers face “segregation by planning” in new housing developments
Travellers are being placed beside sewage works, busy railway lines and polluted industrial sites.
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Published in: HomeBarcelona en Comú: an unstoppable transformative tide
Barcelona en Comú continues to make waves and has transformed the water, energy and public housing sectors in...
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Published in: openDemocracyUK5 ways to solve the housing crisis
Our cities need homes - not safety deposit boxes in the sky.
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Published in: TransformationWhy mental health is the hidden cost of the housing crisis
Our homes are supposed to be safe and welcoming, yet one in five adults in the UK suffer from mental health problems...
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Published in: openDemocracyUKManchester is not a 'radical city', Salford is - of housing, Labour, and neoliberal bastions
As the Corbynistas besiege the New Labour diehards, as in other Labour-run councils, the main battleground is...
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Published in: openDemocracyUKGuardians of the Property: pop-up housing for pop-up people
Property guardians – a win-win for everyone (except squatters)? Or a new class of exploitation that’s taken root...
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Published in: Shine A LightHow to start a housing movement
Radical groups working on housing, racism, poverty, sex worker and migrant rights are springing up all over London....
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Published in: Can Europe Make It?Dublin’s housing: a cultural revolution
Home Sweet Home is a radical and highly creative campaign to force political action on Dublin homelessness; a...
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Published in: Can Europe Make It?"We don’t have a refugee crisis. We have a housing crisis."
With national and European governments in gridlock, the cities themselves have decided to bypass the state level...
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Published in: Can Europe Make It?Eviction and housing racism in Bucharest
A community has been living on the streets for one year in protest against a racist and dysfunctional Romanian state...
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Published in: Can Europe Make It?From the squares to power in four years, 10 days
How Spain’s skilful activists have transformed politics during the crisis years and how the full effects of 15-M are...
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Published in: openSecurityReclaiming life in the precarious city
Despite the recent crackdown on squatting in the UK and Europe, across the Global North we are now witnessing the...