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  • A photo montage showing houses in disrepair on the right, a crew in high vis vests holding cleaning supplies and a fixed house on the right

    New life on the Marsh

    In Grimsby’s East Marsh ward, a community effort is battling with scant resources to revitalise an area crushed by economic forces outside its control, writes Paula Graves

  • Illustrations of arms in suits pointing in different directions, with Justice 4 Grenfell banner in the centre with a green heart on the top of building

    Grenfell: The cost of austerity

    The damning Grenfell inquiry report reveals entrenched private sector corruption and public sector failings – and our need to overhaul governance systems, writes Richard Norton-Taylor

  • Former Prime Minister Rishi Sunak and former chancellor Jeremy Hunt placing a sign reading "levelling up" on a building

    The Broken Promise of Infrastructure – review

    Dominic Davies’s book is a much needed analysis of the role infrastructure relates to and informs our politics, writes Anubha Sarkar

  • Several To Let signs piled together on the ground

    Against Landlords – review

    Nick Bano’s book is a much needed intervention in the struggle against Britain’s powerful landlord class, writes Eilidh Keay

  • A young man in a white t-shirt in the process of installing wool insulation between wooden beams in a roof space

    How not to decarbonise housing: the ECO scam

    With debate over the winter fuel allowance raging and the energy price cap set to rise, Samuel Young assesses the flawed government scheme for energy efficient homes

  • A photo of a sign outside a building that looks like a house reads: creativity + community + collection and archive MOH research and campaigns + supplies + solidarity; a group of four smiling people pose in front of wooden crates

    Space, cash and grassroots futures

    The government alone won’t support culture, argues Matt Turtle. In discontented Britain, community connection, creative ingenuity and staying power are key

  • Two photos: A line of police speak to a woman pushing a pram; Punks do their hair in a 1970s squat filled with art and musical instruments

    How the crackdown on squatting cramped British creativity

    Ella Benson Easton explores how housing shapes the arts – and the impact of laws and funding cuts subtly killing alternative cultures

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