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SOCIAL tenants will picket a property auction today as their estate is put up for sale.
Residents of the Butterfields estate in Walthamstow, London, will be marching on the Marriott Hotel in Grosevenor Square to protest against the sale of their homes.
The 64 homes were owned by poverty charity Glasspool Trust until earlier this year, when the estate was bought, without its tenants’ knowledge, by property firm Butterfields E17.
CAROL WILCOX argues for the proper implementation of the land value tax, which could see unused plots sold off and landlords priced out of landlordism, potentially resolving the housing and planning crises
Our housing crisis isn’t an accident – it’s class war, trapping millions in poverty while landlords and billionaires profit. To solve it, we need comprehensive transformation, not mere tokenistic reform, writes BECK ROBERTSON
