Sisterhood and Squatting in the 1970s: Feminism, Housing and Urban Change in Hackney
A detailed look at squatting in 1970s Hackney, East London. Using oral history to recall how women squatting in the 1970s carved out a space for themselves to self organise in a decaying London, neglected by municipal structures. The article argues that by creating a physical space for themselves women in Hackney were able to shape and create the kind of feminist movement they wanted, which in turn helped them to create better places to live in.
The hidden history of housing
A grassroots history of housing, by Colin Ward.
The Monopoly board of the city: Grenfell Tower - where was the HCA, government housing regulator??
The Homes & Community Agency(HCA) is the UK state regulatory body for social housing; its job is to monitor the performance, finances and provision of services of landlords. Missing from the media coverage of the Grenfell Tower fire disaster so far is any discussion of what relation the HCA has to this horror story of corporate murder. Given the years of complaints from Grenfell tenants(1) about their landlord the Kensington and Chelsea Tenant Management Organisation(KCTMO)(2), we can reasonably ask why the HCA never stepped in to investigate the terrible tenant-landlord relationship and the many fire safety complaints tenants had flagged up repeatedly before the fire broke out.
Smothered by regeneration: the Grenfell Tower fire
Rent strike: St Pancras 1960
Fight for the City Part 3: The City is Ours!
Part three of an analysis of what is happening to cities
Fight for the City :Part Two- No Place to Run: Control of Space by Capital and State
Second part of analysis of what is happening in the cities
Fight For The City: Part One- Social Cleansing, Social Warfare
First part of a three part series on what is happening to cuities under capitalism