What opportunities does COVID-19 present for ending homelessness? David Christie argues that the achievements of New Labour’s Rough Sleepers Unit can provide a starting point for progressive policy building in the wake of the pandemic.
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Homelessness and Medical Research in Wartime London
David Saunders (Queen Mary) offers a vivid and unsettling insight into scientific and medical perceptions of homelessness during the Second World War.
Political commemoration and housing protest in Ireland: A lesson from the 1960s
Housing protests in Sixties Ireland framed activism within narratives of domestic political commemoration, and within broader social movements of the decade. What lessons can modern protest groups learn about the power of political commemoration?
A Powerful Message From the Powerless: The E15 Mothers and Squatting in Post-War Britain
Becky Taylor writes on the history and delegitimisation of squatting, in the light of the E15 Focus Mothers campaign