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.
Tag: housing
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?
Activist Selly Oak: Public History and Community Activism in Birmingham
Birmingham’s once-vibrant suburb of Selly Oak provides a clear cut case study from very close to home of contemporary capitalism shattering a community in pursuit of profit.
Episode 3: History Acts – Housing in Crisis
In this episode, activists and historians discuss the UK housing crisis in contemporary and historical perspective.
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
