London Meetings with the director of the newly formed Tenants’ Foundation, the director of Generation Rent, and ACORN United Kingdom’s organizing coordinator and head organizer in London yesterday was a deep dive into tenant rights — and wrongs — in England. The big picture is dire for tenants throughout the country, and most intensely in …
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Home Stealing Swindles and Similar Crimes
Baton Rouge For years I’ve seen these almost handmade looking signs on street corners in our neighborhoods in various cities in the USA that say something on the order of “We Buy Old Houses, Call XYZ” or “No Matter What Condition, We Buy Houses” and so forth. In New Orleans it seemed part of the …
Devolution in the North of England
Newcastle I had ridden by Newcastle before on the train between Edinburgh and London, and mainly looked at the wide river and noted how striking it was in contrast to the old saying that defined a waste of time and effort as being like “bringing coal to Newcastle.” Of course they don’t mine coal anywhere …