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A NORTH London council is set to announce today which homes it will demolish next during an event promoting the area’s “regeneration.”
Campaigners will protest outside the the council’s Tottenham Conference, where council officials and developers are promoting the council’s corporate plan.
Council tenant Paul Burnham said that further plans to sell council flats had left remaining stock unaffordable as prices go up and even double for new builds.
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
LOTTE COLLETT welcomes the arrival of a new party for the left, a vehicle for councils to finally fight for progressive policies on housing, green spaces and public facilities, rather than administering cuts and misery from central government
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