The Housing Trap

Monday 5th November sees Dispatches taking a look at the issues around house prices and the property ‘boom’.
The programme is at 8pm on Channel 4, and promises to tackle the issue of whether a generation now exists that will never be able to afford their own homes.

Roughler TV

RADICAL HISTORY TOUR OF NOTTING HILL

Tom Vague’s excellent Bash the Rich Radical History Tour of Notting Hill pamphlet is now available.
A riotous, left wing, pop cultural, psychogeographic historical ramble through the streets of the forever beating heart of the capital’s most left field neighbourhood – Notting Hill – courtesy of anarcho-historian and psychgeographer Vague.
From race course riots to race riots; [...]

Save Meanwhile Gardens

The Save Meanwhile Gardens website is now up and running, with a big event planned for Sunday 14th October.
Get your arses down there, and in the meantime, visit the website here.

“A utopia for workers and bosses alike”

Fashionable Manchester-based property developers Urban Splash have recently pitched up in Bristol where they’re trying to bring their marketing-heavy gentrification plans for loft living yuppies to Hartcliffe, a working class area to south of the city.
Their first project is the conversion of a deserted 1970s Imperial Tobacco factory on the fringes of the city into [...]