If you’re planning to vote Tory first read this
March 31st, 2015
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A new report by Professor Anne Power of the LSE reviewed here by Aditya Chakrabortty
Regeneration Game – Vice – Part One
March 31st, 2015
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In part one of Regeneration Game, host Daisy-May Hudson visits the Carpenters Estate in Newham, the borough with the biggest homelessness crisis in London. With Westfield shopping centre, the Olympic site and excellent transport links surrounding the area, the land on which people’s homes stand has rocketed in value. The council has said the Carpenters Estate is no longer “viable” and has been slowly trying to relocate residents over the last eight years – but a group of local mums are leading the fight back.
Tweet of the day – Keep public land, public!
March 31st, 2015
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Michael, why aren’t you Mayor? You’d make a better one than Boris.
If I could take everybody in London under 30 back to the 1970s for a day and show them the council housing we had then, and point out that they themselves could have applied for a flat and got one in under a year in most cases, they’d be in heaven. What have we lost under the Tories and New Labour???