Housing Archive
Refurbish don’t demolish: the fight for the future of Thamesmead
Residents of Thamesmead, one of London’s largest and most iconic housing
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10 Apr 2024
Refugees are being housed in infested hotels by the Home Office’s slum landlords
This article is part of a joint investigation with The Canary
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27 Jan 2022
Hyde Housing: still shafting tenants nationwide
Four years ago Corporate Watch investigated the finances of Hyde Housing
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05 Jan 2022
Why is Glasgow Housing Association hiking rents again?
Glasgow Housing Association (GHA) is the biggest landlord in Scotland, housing
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12 May 2021
Camp Residents of Penally: an interview with refugees organising inside the Home Office’s military camp
Last week we published a profile of Clearsprings, the outsourcing company
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15 Dec 2020
Clearsprings: Migrant Camp Profiteers
The government has hastily-adapted military bases into camps to hold people
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04 Dec 2020
Pemberstone Group: we profile the company trying to demolish 70 homes in a Leeds estate
After a two-year long battle by families to save their homes,
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24 Sep 2020
Mears Group 2020 update: scandal-ridden landlord under fire from Glasgow to Gloucester
At the start of 2019 we published a profile on Mears
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10 Jun 2020
Rough-sleeper raids: how homeless charity deportations carry on rebranded
by Eve Dickson and Benjamin Morgan In December 2017 the High
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10 Jun 2020
Delancey: tax-haven Tories devouring neighbourhoods
Delancey is a property developer involved in some of London’s highest
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14 Jul 2019
Elephant & Castle shopping centre: the battle at London’s gentrification “ground zero”
The Elephant and Castle has been called London’s gentrification “ground zero”.
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14 Jul 2019
Quarterbridge-MAM: meet the companies waging ‘f***ing war’ on local markets
[responsivevoice_button] Town centre and street markets are at the frontline of
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24 Apr 2019
Grainger: the corporate landlord cashing in on the housing crisis
With house prices unaffordable and social housing unavailable, seven million households
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03 Apr 2019
Besson St: Lewisham council and Grainger building private flats on demolished council estate
[responsivevoice_button] Besson Street in New Cross is the target for Lewisham
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03 Apr 2019
Tidemill update: the trees come down, the battle for Deptford continues
[responsivevoice_button] Corporate Watch has been glad to support Deptford people fighting
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01 Mar 2019