Contemporary Housing Struggles 2012-2018

A collection of materials related to recent housing struggles from in and around London. The collection includes materials from campaigns against the demolition of social housing, gentrification and commercial displacement. It is composed mainly of posters, flyers and pamphlets, and attempts in particular to include items that demostrate the tactics employed by the campaigns. Other material of the collection covers areas such as tenants’ rights, rent strikes and more. Materials have been tagged by their geographical area, and you can see a map of the campaigns here.

A lot of of these campaigns’ materials could only be found online, so we decided to archive the campaigns’ websites through the Internet Archive's Wayback Machine. We’re now working on writing a script that will update the saved websites frequently and we’re looking into the best way to present this material. Stay tuned, this work is in progress. For the moment an archived version of each campaign's website can also be downloaded through the catalogue.