Newspapers / Online news

Some recent news coverage:

• Greater Manchester Housing Action (30 January 2021) Social cleansing deemed acceptable: LS26 ‘Save Our Homes’ lose appeal
• Leeds Live (19 January 2021) Leeds residents devastated as demolition of historic miners’ homes is greenlit
• The Morning Star (18 January 2021) Government-approved housing plans leave tenants of 70 former miners’ homes facing eviction
• Yorkshire Evening Post (7 July 2020) Oulton residents launch crowds under to fight against developers who want to demolish their homes
• The Morning Star (10 May 2020) Former miners’ homes tenants prepare for another battle against take over by unaffordable luxury accommodation
• Leeds Live (30 April 2020) Families who fought for two years to save their homes dealt another devastating blow
• Yorkshire Evening Post (18 Feb 2020) These campaigning residents are good neighbours and why we can all learn a lesson from them
• Yorkshire Evening Post (18 Feb 2020) ‘How dare you think you can just come and move us out?’ Oulton residents stand their ground
• BBC News (3 October 2019) Rothwell former coal board houses saved from demolition
• The Morning Star (3 October 2019) Community beats back gentrifiers
• Yorkshire Post (30 May 2019) Leeds Councillors fail to come to a decision on demolition plans
• The Canary (21 June 2018): A potential mass eviction in Leeds lays bare the perils of private renting
• The Guardian (25 April 2018): How do we save our estate from demolition?
• Building Design Online (12 April 2018): Anger grows over plans to redevelop Yorkshire prefabs
• Leeds Live (10 April 2018): ‘They would be tearing down a community’.
• The Guardian/Observer (7 April 2018): ‘The spirit will be lost: Residents fight eviction from their prefab homes’
• The Financial Times (3 April 2018): UK tenants fight to prevent demolition of prefab homes
• The Guardian (12 Mar 2018): Our landlord is demolishing 70 homes – but we won’t go quietly
• BBC News: Rothwell ex-coal board estate ‘may be demolished’
• Morning Star: Ex-miners face eviction to make way for luxury homes
• Homeless Reunite: The Silent Housing Scandal: What’s happening to us could happen to you next and 70 families face being made homeless. Can we stop this together??