I'm enjoying this really good book by Nick Bano. 'A timid Labour Party, whether in office or opposition, is a dangerous thing: its mere ideological posture can have tangible effects.' Past and present centrists are as much to blame as Thatcherites for the current housing crisis.

🚨🚨Our event tonight with Isaac Rose and Nick Bano , Repeater Books and Verso Books , is now entirely sold out and we are putting together a waiting list. If you would like to be added to it, please email our events manager: [email protected] 🧵

'Fifty years ago we nearly abolished landlords. It is surprisingly easy to regulate them out of existence.'

We live in a world of abundance, yet many of us struggle with poverty. This paradox extends to housing: cities are filled with homes, but many people still lack places to live. Why, despite the abundance, do we face this issue?

Listen to our last episode with Nick Bano

Your #data shows that UK homelessness is FAR worse than the US's. Your #data also shows that UK building rates are higher than the US's (and we have more homes-per-capita than they do).

Surely your very own gimmick requires you to question the under-supply rhetoric.

What if we put the business of landlordism on trial? Tune in to the latest episode of #PushbackTalks as Fredrik Gertten, @LeilaniFarha, & barrister Nick Bano explore this bold proposition from Nick's new book; 'Against Landlords: How to Solve the Housing Crisis. #HousingCrisis

There's a lovely Le Carré quote about Cold War 'sympis':

'members of the guilt-ridden higher bourgeoisie who secretly give succour to those bent on their destruction'.

🚨 Today we're kicking off our CUT THE RENT campaign for #RentControlNow by TAKING ACTION against the UK’s biggest corporate landlord GRAINGER.

Grainger is getting rich gentrifying our neighbourhoods while lobbying government against our rights.

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On Friday evening, Isaac Rose and Nick Bano will discuss their respective books THE RENTIER CITY and AGAINST LANDLORDS in this talk at Housmans Bookshop.

Find out more: bit.ly/3UGmaJ1

💥MAJOR NEWS💥

Today, a High Court Judge has declared parts of Police Act 2022 as being in breach of European Convention of Human Rights.

The Police Act 2022 increased the power to ban Gypsies and Travellers from an area from 3 to 12 months. (1/6)

gypsy-traveller.org/news/high-cour…

High Court judge finds sections of the Police, Crime, Sentencing and Courts Act to be in breach of human rights law, with its powers capable of causing a “significant intrusion” on the lives of Gypsies and Travellers theguardian.com/world/article/…

This piece by the The Ferret on what is *actually* happening to Scotland's housing is great, and very important. Landlords are spinning their story, but the actual real-world evidence simply doesn't back up what they are saying: theferret.scot/explainer-scot…

On Saturday Nick Bano came to speak at LesResTM & we're now (re-)reading his book. Here are two graphs from it that show pretty starkly that this really isn't a supply issue, stupid
[the bottom one plots house prices, & the top one shows growth of housing stock & population]

One week to go till Isaac Rose and Nick Bano take on the housing crisis at Housmans!
Get your tickets via: housmans.com/event/the-rent…

REVIEW: Against Landlords by Nick Bano – radical ideas for tackling the housing crisis – viewdigital.org/review-against… - Vicky Spratt Verso Books Michael Pierse The Shift London Renters Union Mick Byrne

‘Landlords, as a class, withhold housing until tenants are forced to pay the maximum they are able to without dying.’

Nick Bano on Marx, housing, and landlordism in Britain.

One month has gone by & LesResTM are having a fundraiser & party ft. a workshop by Nick Bano, a key ally in the housing movement! Come along and join a tour of the protest occupation, visit the new Retrofit Wing at the community centre, bring clothes to donate & stencil 🔆

'The main part – the absolute majority – of wealth in the British economy is made up of a type of asset that everyone agrees will, at some point, fail.'

From Against Landlords, Nick Bano's excellent book on housing in Britain. Convincing, clarifying, perversely optimistic.

The rent is too damn high.

Nick Bano on the importance and history of rent controls.

An incredible show of solidarity in Peckham today, in the face of brute force from the police.

Our community stopped the Home Office from kidnapping our friends + neighbours today. They will return, please keep an eye out for updates #BlackLivesMatterUK Southwark & Lambeth Anti-Raids SOAS Detainee Support (SDS) Action Against Detention & Deportations (AADD)