Lambeth’s ‘Shortlife’ Housing Co-ops: a brief history by Trace Newton-Ingham ‘Shortlife’ Housing began in the early 1970s when Lambeth began Compulsorily Purchasing houses for ‘slum clearance’. During this forced displacement, the council began to ‘hand out’ keys for these newly emptied properties, to people who were being made homeless by the CPO-ing of other houses […]

Labour pledges to scrap the bedroom tax – Now stop the evictions! You may already be paying the bedroom tax. You may be among the 50,000 that are already building up arrears. You may be wondering how you are going to get through the next 2 years, when you hope that Miliband might get rid of […]