Housing Archive
Who’s gentrifying Deptford? Identifying the profiteers, making strategies
[responsivevoice_button] On Saturday 23 February Corporate Watch ran a meeting called
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27 Feb 2019
Who’s gentrifying Deptford? 15 development schemes and the investors behind them
[responsivevoice_button] In the meeting with the Tidemill campaign, we started to
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27 Feb 2019
Who’s gentrifying Deptford? public meeting with the Tidemill Campaign this Saturday
[responsivevoice_button] Councillors, Housing Associations, Property Developers, Investors … who are the companies and individuals pushing the gentrification
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19 Feb 2019
Mears Group: scandal-hit council housing profiteer turns asylum landlord
[responsivevoice_button] Mears is an outsourcing company working in two sectors: housing
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13 Feb 2019
New asylum contracts: Mears Group and Migrant Help win big, as G4S loses housing deal
Update: see our new company profile of Mears Group here. A
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17 Jan 2019
Tidemill: the Lewisham councillors pushing demolition and gentrification
As Deptford residents rally against the destruction of Tidemill community gardens
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12 Nov 2018
Tidemill: County Enforcement – Lewisham Council’s private army in skull masks
As we write this, about 50 burly security guards are surrounding
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12 Nov 2018
Tidemill: Peabody Housing Association – from social landlord to big business
Peabody Housing is one of the UK’s biggest landlords. After its
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12 Nov 2018
Tidemill: factsheet on the battle for Deptford
Early in the morning of 29 October around 150 bailiffs and
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12 Nov 2018
Hyde Housing: strapped for cash or hungry for profit?
[responsivevoice_button] Hyde Housing has told residents it “can no longer afford”
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24 Mar 2017
The Round-Up: rough sleeper immigration raids and charity collaboration
Homelessness outreach charities are helping Immigration Enforcement round up and deport
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07 Mar 2017
Boris Johnson at MIPIM: the world’s largest property fair
[responsivevoice_button] Think of any community in the UK (or even worldwide)
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06 Mar 2014
Soundings: The Consultation Industry in the Elephant & Castle
[responsivevoice_button] SNAG (Southwark Notes Archives Group) tells Corporate Watch about the
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10 Jan 2013
King’s Cross Central: ‘a crude exercise in social engineering’
[responsivevoice_button] King’s Cross Central, one of Europe’s biggest inner city regeneration
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23 Sep 2012
Preparing London for the Corporate Games: the Docklands Planning Model
[responsivevoice_button] Ian Blunt explains how legislation and ‘democratic’ processes were adapted
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26 Jul 2012