See below for recent press coverage and also the tabs down from Press menu:
South London Press 03/05/13: http://pages.cdn.pagesuite.com/2/8/28ca1e5d-ae53-4c2b-a733-c6ad4557cb8d/page.pdf
Guardian Online 29/04/13: http://www.guardian.co.uk/housing-network/2013/apr/29/council-residents-battle-short-life-evictions
Lambeth Weekender 29/04/13:
http://weekenderlife.co.uk/2013/04/29/lambeth-short-life-housing-evictions-kick-in/
We’re willing to work with Lambeth for an in situ solution with or without a mediator, recent Lambeth propaganda suggesting just the opposite…
Links to some other recent coverage…
http://socialenterprise.guardian.co.uk/social-enterprise-network/2013/feb/14/housing-co-operatives-tackle-crisis
http://www.redpepper.org.uk/lambeths-short-life-sell-off/
http://www.theprisma.co.uk/ 2012/11/26/winning-the-right- to-residency-out-of-house-and- home/
As seen in The Brixton Bugle
Our plight as seen in Private Eye September 2012:
Local Government Conservative Home: http://conservativehome.blogs.com/localgovernment/2012/06/lambeths-urban-clearance.html
Inside Housing: http://www.insidehousing.co.uk/legal/lambeth-tenants-challenge-evictions/6521371.article
Streatham Post: http://www.streathamguardian.co.uk/news/9641410.Repossession_orders_served_as_homes_sold_off/
Piece in Streatham Guardian, 21 June:
http://www.streathamguardian.co.uk/news/9774309.Eviction_threatened_tenants__treated_like_criminals_/?action=complain&cid=10493320
Maritza in th Lambeth Weekender: 016.LTW.WEEK.S01.C0L.
Link to This is Croydon Today: http://www.thisiscroydontoday.co.uk/Breaking-Steve-Reed-selected-Labour-candidate/story-17223500-detail/story.html
From The Guardian 1997
From The South London Press 1997
Related:
Michelle Hanson’s piece on Bonnington Square:
http://www.guardian.co.uk/lifeandstyle/video/2010/jul/06/sustainable-squatting-bonnington-square
Piece about Lambeth’s uncollected council tax:
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/ news/article-2165170/2billion- council-tax-left-uncollected- town-halls-moan-cuts- Whitehall.html?ito=feeds- newsxml
“Lambeth, which has £48million of uncollected council tax, last year used taxpayers’ money to fund a poster campaign complaining about central government spending cuts.
The posters said: `The Government has cut our money so we are forced to cut services.”
Piece about vacant property managers, Camelot – note the comment at the end from Squash:
http://www.guardian.co.uk/ housing-network/2012/feb/03/ housing-profit-property- guardian-industry
Link for People Before Profit’s successful campaign in Lewisham over retention of council houses:
http://lewishamcampaigner.blogspot.co.uk/2012/06/south-london-press-report-housing.html
Piece about Jonathan Reynold’s MP and his Co-op housing bill (it would have had an impact on this case if it was law):
http://www.insidehousing.co.uk/ihstory.aspx?storycode=6521581
Piece about The Drive Co-op:
http://www.guardian.co.uk/money/2011/jul/29/housing-co-op-affordable-home