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PROTESTERS descended upon a London hotel last night as property developers made merry at an awards ceremony promoting some of the capital’s largest gentrification projects.
As the 2015 Property Awards continued inside Grosvenor House, activists and community members held an alternative ceremony, celebrating famous campaigns such as Sweets Way Resists and other anti-gentrification groups.
“Property developers and companies are contributing to the destruction of our diverse capital city as we know it, from rising rents and a shortage of social housing, to the closure of libraries and social centres, the demolition of pubs and clubs,” said Friends of the Joiners Arms supporter Charlotte Gerada.
Building is the solution for much of our housing crisis – and will also help to address poverty, ill health, and even anti-social behaviour and alienation, writes KENNY MacASKILL
CAROL WILCOX argues for the proper implementation of the land value tax, which could see unused plots sold off and landlords priced out of landlordism, potentially resolving the housing and planning crises
It is rather strange that Labour continues to give prestigious roles to inappropriate, controversy-mired businessmen who are also major Tory donors. What could Labour possibly be hoping to get out of it, asks SOLOMON HUGHES