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The last days of St Agnes Place, London’s longest ever running squat

Off the grid — Photographer Janine Wiedel spent four years documenting the people of the Kennington squat, who for decades made a forgotten row of terraced houses a home.

  • Activism
  • Isaac Muk

Why I’m taking action for rent control

On Saturday 14th December, people from across London will march to demand action on skyrocketing rents explains London Renters Union member Elyem Chej.

  • Activism
  • Elyem Chej

How activists have fought back against the escalating housing crisis

The last five years have seen astronomical rises in rents, evictions and spiralling rates of homelessness but communities have been organising, fighting back and, whisper it, winning.

  • Election 2024
  • Micha Frazer-Carroll

Tenants are being left out in the cold by the cladding crisis

'We want our homes back' — When Grenfell-style cladding was removed from a Salford tower block in 2020, tenants had no idea it would take years to replace. With the government and the private housing association Pendleton Together at loggerheads over responsibility, residents of Holm Court have now spent three winters without insulation.

  • Activism
  • Jessica Bradley

The dire truth behind London’s housing crisis

Cleansing a city — A new documentary, We’re Still Here, follows activist groups and social housing tenants caught up in London’s rampant social cleansing.

  • Film
  • Katie Goh

The home of UK counterculture is facing closure

Save The Horse Hospital — One of London’s longest-running independent arts venues has been hit with a 440 per cent rent increase, and will be forced to closed at the end of March.

  • Art
  • Guy Sangster-Adams

The housing activists trying to beat property developers at their own game

Taking on the housing crisis — A group of local residents in Haringey, North London, are defying private property developers by bidding for an old hospital site that's for sale. Does this signal a new direction for housing activism in the capital? One that looks at the needs of a community not simply the bottom line?

  • Activism
  • Emma Snaith

The young people finding creative ways to escape London’s housing crisis

Huck x giffgaff — From squatting to property guardianship and communal living, young people are finding non-traditional ways to survive the capital’s unaffordable property market. The giffgaff Perspectives video series on VICE explores alternative solutions to the housing crisis.

  • Film
  • Advertorial

Has criminalisation killed squatting in the UK?

They tried to kill it, but squatting's not dead — Despite the British government criminalising residential squatting in 2012, the squat community is still active and squatting remains a defiant protest against inadequate housing and inequality.

  • Activism
  • Vyvian Raoul

Poet Paul Hawkins raises the ghosts of East London’s ‘No M11’ squat protests

London’s ongoing battle for living space — Paul Hawkins draws on zine culture to push back against mainstream poetry in Place Waste Dissent, an account of the era-defining 'No M11 Link Road’ squat protests in the early ‘90s.

  • Print
  • Joshua Gabert-Doyon

Artists and architects unite to imagine creative solutions to the global housing crisis

The future of living space — Huck visits a new exhibition in Berlin to see how innovative thinkers are using architecture to re-empower communities fragmented by the housing crisis.

  • Art
  • George Kafka

The freshest young filmmakers at the East End Film Festival

Five not-to-miss screenings — Discover challenging filmmaking and up-and-coming directors of the 14th East End Film Festival.

  • Film
  • Robin Nierynck

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