Excellent article on Labour Landlordism by Aaron Bastani. I said at The World Transformed 2022 that if we’d written Hegemony Now only about the UK, then we’d have identified landlords rather than Silicon Valley as the winners of the 20th C. (1/n). newstatesman.com/politics/econo…

London urgently needs rent control. Rent control would give us all more security, more control over our lives, and more money to spend on the things that really matter and make life worth living. We must fight to take back wealth and power from the landlord class.

A little thread story to illustrate just how fractured the bus service is in Bristol. I might be on holiday for a fortnight, but will that stop me doing a Bristol Buses Twitter rant? Of course not. 😂 Read the whole thing & then say what you think needs to happen ok let’s go 1/16

We still haven’t even been provided a breakdown of what types of ‘homes’ they’ll be …. Social housing? Leasehold traps? Shared Ownership scam? (Unaffordable) Affordable homes? Will they be the homes we need? We are really no clearer than we were 14+ months ago🥴🤷🏽‍♂️

Fix housing to fight fascism

CONFESSIONS OF A GREEN PARTY MEMBER With all this chat of lefties being tempted to place their faith in the Greens, here's an honest account of what it's like to take the leap... (from someone who joined 3 years ago) 🧵👇

One reason we should all be a bit cautious about full-on YIMBYism is that few people advancing it seem to have considered that a large proportion of new-builds are *appalling* quality. Looking for Growth what’s the solution? how do we guarantee lots of new housing isn’t totally crap?

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'I hated the boot until I wore the boot'

We’re in the midst of a crippling housing crisis & the housing secretary is promoting Trump inspired merchandise made by Labour YIMBY…a group co-founded by a director at a real estate private equity developer

Today is a good day to buy my book Renters Unite. Why, you ask? Because it's always a good day to buy it plutobooks.com/product/renter…

My The World Transformed paper Designing the Agile Party with Socialist Cybernetics is up. Argues for innovation to build organisations adequate to the moment Refs to Max Shanly Life of the Party Joe Todd Shanice 😈 🇵🇸 🏳️‍⚧️ Jonas Patrick Marvin 🇵🇸 David Harvey | @davidharvey.org on Bluesky Jacob preorg theworldtransformed.org/documents/318/…

In Barcelona, 8% of corporate investors control 51% of the 10,000 Airbnb-licensed rentals. The narrative still claims that this market helps families, but what it fosters is inequality. journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/09…

Berlin people! I will be talking about my book and tenant organising at Unframe Festival unframefestival.com On Sat 1st November at 11.15am. Please do come along and join the discussion. Tagging Pluto Press

We’ve known from the start that this Labour governments’ priority is developers & their profits so it’s useful they’re saying it explicitly now b/c folk can stop entertaining their faux discourse on wanting to fix the housing crisis

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A parliament of landlords will never deliver rent controls unforced. But in Scotland an uncompromising tenants’ movement left it with no choice. novaramedia.com/2025/10/20/sco…

When Britain "cuts back the red tape" for Private businesses:

Now the fight to enforce it begins! And the fight for rent controls continues.