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Joe Penny
@Penny_Dropping
Associate Professor in global urbanism at @UCLurbanlab. Also Social Media Editor of @urbgeog. I research housing, land and the local state in London.
London Katılım Eylül 2013
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🚨 We’re hiring!
Mat-leave cover role in our groundbreaking Gentrification Project 🏙️
Looking for a community organiser with legal experience (housing justice 💛) or a lawyer keen to build skills in community-led litigation ⚖️
Apply here: pilc.org.uk/about/jobs/
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Social housing requirements? Halved
Access to daylight? Going
Housing space standards? Going
Biodiversity? Gone
Green Belt? Gone
Gardens? Gone
Developer’s 20% profits protected? You betcha
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The most insane part is nobody thinks this is a good paper. The debate is over whether a student should have gotten a high F or a low F on a minor homework assignment. And for that, a junior educator is losing their job and being nationally shamed.
University of Oklahoma@UofOklahoma
A statement from the University of Oklahoma:
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u know the fail grade was approved by the other staff too right? so why is it just the trans teacher getting fired?
Pop Base@PopBase
The University of Oklahoma confirms that Mel Curth, the teaching assistant who gave a student a failing grade on a psychology essay, will no longer be teaching.
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London init. Former social centre for 10+ years now evicted and property guardians installed at £1200 a month!
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This is happening to people applying for tenancies with councils, as well.
Joe Carpenter@uksocialhousing
“People on lowest incomes being denied access to social housing, research finds” theguardian.com/society/2025/d…
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This manifesto for a post-growth, de-commodified housing strategy is close to what we have been proposing. A very good (long) read open.substack.com/pub/housingdeg…
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Section 21 eviction ABOLISHED 1 May 2026.
This is a huge victory for organised tenants. But the government has left us unprotected over the Winter.
We must get organised and defend each other from homelessness. Once S21 is history, we can push forward for rent controls.
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How to win a Nobel Peace Prize:
Promise to sell off all your resources to the US at bargain basement prices.
Ben Norton@BenjaminNorton
María Corina Machado, the far-right US-backed Venezuelan coup leader who won the Nobel Peace Prize, promised a “massive privatization” if Trump can put her in power. She vowed to sell off $1.7 TRILLION of Venezuela's oil, gas, gold, infrastructure, etc. to US corporations.
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Want to learn about the worldwide rise of tenant organising? Renters unite is now 40% off! plutobooks.com/product/renter…
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The ‘build baby build’ agenda will fail to make even a small dent in the annual number of social homes needed according to the GLA’s own housing assessment. Without major public investment in council housing and rent controls, the needle on the housing emergency won’t budge
Greg Barradale@GregBarradale
👀Looks like the government has confirmed its plans to cut affordable housing targets in London to 20% Press release says projects which commit to 20% housebuilding will be accelerated – as long as 60% of those homes (so 12% total) are social housing
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In 2014, Hackney Council sold a property under Right to Buy for £95,050
In 2021, they bought it back off the ex-tenant for £365,000
In just 6 and 1/2 years, the council lost £269,950 on a single property
It's not an isolated example. @BigIssue has uncovered 100+ 'Yo-yo Homes'
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Calling housing academics, researchers and economists - we've put out a tender for research on private landlord profits; how substantial are they, how are they distributed, from rent vs. capital etc.
Apply at the link below! Budget up to £40k including vat.
Please reshare!!
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📣 New Special Issue 📣 'New Urban Frontiers' co-edited by Tom Gillespie and Claire Mercer collects four original research articles that can be found in Volume 46 issue 8 out now! urbangeographyjournal.org/journal/volume…
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➡️Tues 28th October to protest the developers at the Aylesham Shopping Centre Planning Inquiry!➡️
SHAPE Coalition (Southwark)💚@ShapeCoalition1
SHAPE (Southwark Planning and Housing Emergency have called a demo for... ➡️➡️➡️Tues 28th October to protest the developers at the Aylesham Shopping Centre Planning Inquiry! Stand up for Peckham - don't allow your community to be run roughshod over by Berkeley Homes!
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“Academics say Britain faces a shortage of about 4.3m homes”. Nope. Housebuilder funded junk tank lobbyists have peddled this nonsense for the past 2.5 years, in order to cut planning regulations: why does #TheGuardian and govt regurgitate this lie? theguardian.com/politics/2025/…
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The Starmer ID card thing is his ‘leadership style’ all over:
Petty authoritarianism, instantly unites all against him, no natural base of support, reheated New Labour, incoherent, not part of any wider vision or idea, hobbled from the beginning by association with him.
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One last push for Peckham community legal challenge against gentrification:
crowdjustice.com/case/acapeckham
Love to all! Fight The Power!
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