Housing & Homelessness

Since 2017, I have campaigned, researched and written about the history of renting, homelessness and housing policy in Britain.

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Articles/Opinion

• Zeteo UK: The Renters’ Rights Act is No Fix for a Broken System, (23 Aug 2026)
• Labour Hub: Temporary Accommodation isn’t a remedy for mass eviction – the St James Case, (20 Aug 2026)
• Inside Housing: Tracking the history of temporary accommodation shows missed lessons and an urgent need for structural reform (28 July 2026)
• Housing Quarterly Magazine: Temporary accommodation in the archives: What can we learn? (16 July 2026)
• Verso: Temporary accommodation: An unimportant history of the appalling present (9 July 2026)
• Labour Hub: Rampant Landlordism and Tenant Resistance (Nov 2025)
• Red Pepper Magazine: “Fighting for Cardboard City: The drudgery of activism on the frontlines of the housing crisis” (Summer 2022)
• Feminism and the City? Magazine: “Housing as an infrastructure of care: Defiance against destruction in a British suburb” (June 2022)
• The Guardian: “Our landlord is demolishing 70 homes- but we won’t go quietly” (March 2018)

Blog

Save Our Homes LS26 campaign site: https://savourhomesLS26.org

Recognition

I won the Dawn Foster Memorial Essay Prize 2022 for “Fighting for Cardboard City”,

In 2024, I was awarded a K Blundell Trust Society of Authors grant for works designed to raise social awareness – for my book, Eviction.

EVICTION reviews/coverage: