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8 February 2012
Leeds Trinity students fight canteen cuts
Leeds Trinity University College canteen services have been stopped on Saturdays and Sundays for the foreseeable future. Staff have been made redundant and others have had their hours cut, writes Samantha Garratt, Leeds Trinity Union general secretary.
11 January 2012
The cumulative effect of unemployment, a shortage of affordable housing and the cuts to housing benefit is turning the clock backwards on housing, writes Alison Hill.
A housing protest on the Seven Stars estate in Wrekenton, Gateshead, photo Elaine Brunskill
9 November 2011
The ever deepening housing crisis has been revealed by the latest new build figures. They show that the number of new homes built in 2010/11 in England has slumped to 121,200
5 October 2011
Tories plan further destruction of social housing
The Tory conference announcement that they will increase the discount for 'right to buy' council house sales is a cruel trick on people suffering on housing waiting lists and council tenants looking for a way out of council housing, writes Paul Kershaw.
28 September 2011
Salford says: Save Lancaster House!
Salford City Council intends to withdraw funding for Lancaster House - a training and resettlement centre which provides temporary accommodation for 38 single men - on 30 September 2011
31 August 2011
Housing crisis wrecks people's lives
The National Housing Federation (NHF) has warned the government about the "chronic under-supply of homes"...
1 August 2011
Marching to save supported accommodation in Salford
Lancaster House provides supported accommodation for hundreds of young men. It now faces closure.
6 July 2011
Leaked memo shows government lied over its homeless policies
Welfare cuts could make 40,000 homeless according to a leaked letter sent on behalf of Eric Pickles by his private secretary to the prime minister on the planned benefit caps
6 April 2011
Labour 'campaigning' - casework style
Around 50 elderly residents of sheltered accommodation, some support staff and relatives were protesting at Waltham Forest Labour council's decision to implement Tory cuts by picking on the old and vulnerable, writes Linda Taaffe.
7 April 2010
Tories reveal yet more anti-gay bias
THE COMMENTS of shadow home secretary Chris Grayling last week show the continued existence of anti-gay prejudice in the Conservative Party, writes Ian Pattison, Leeds Socialist Party.
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