It’s the dramatic rise of China with its burgeoning economy that has put the Trump administration into a frenzy – with major implications both at home and abroad, argues MICHAEL BURKE
HOUSING has become the new front line of class conflict. Around the world, working-class communities battle for survival against the private property machine.
When someone who was a slumlord becomes US president, it’s clear how far the dial has turned away from housing as a universal human right.
Eulogising his phoney peace deal with North Korea, Donald Trump talked about how many luxury apartments he’d like to build there.
Another housing world is possible, but we stand at a critical moment, illustrated by the situation in Britain.

GLYN ROBBINS celebrates how tenant-led campaigning forced the government to drop Pay to Stay, fixed-term tenancies and council home sell-offs under Cameron — but warns that Labour’s faith in private developers will require renewed resistance


