Our engorged property market – and the ensuing housing crisis – has become a cornerstone of the British economy. Those who actively profit from it shouldn’t be absolved.
The City Council has been legalising legendary artists’ squats to capitalise on their ‘cool’ factor. But the move has destroyed the scene’s founding principles.
At the end of the ’80s, Hyde Park – one of the largest high-rise tower blocks in Europe – faced demolition. Photographer Bill Stephenson was there to watch it happen.
At the annual property developers back-slapping bash, housing and queer activists stood waiting to make it clear that the housing crisis is nothing to celebrate.
The debate around social housing and the Brutalist architecture that embodies it has been raging for half a century. Now war is being waged against these estates, but social need is as great as ever before.
