Neil Gray
@NeilGray00
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Editor, 'Rent and its Discontents: A Century of Housing Struggle'. Writing 'Take over the City: Spatial Composition in 1970s Italy' for CommonNotions, NY.
Shetland/Glasgow, Scotland
Joined January 2022
They want rent control exemptions for build-to-rent and mid-market rent because these business models are premised on continual rent increases. A good reason to tell them where to go. Also why rent control demands should include public housing demands.
scottishhousingnews.com
The delivery of Build to Rent (BtR) homes across Scotland has continued to decline with a 15% drop in the number of units under construction in Q2 2025 when compared to the same period last year, new...
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Read about Herbert Lom in Jules Dassin's mighty 'Night and the City' courtesy of our (free) noir minor substack.
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The chronic endpoint of Lisa Mackenzie's working class identity politics. Tacit support of Farage's 'common sense' politics in the gutter of Spiked magazine. Can Reform become the party of the working class?
spiked-online.com
Nigel Farage’s promises on welfare and industry show how serious he is about taking Labour’s heartlands.
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Can't discuss housing supply without discussing the *type* of housing supply and the land supply that makes public/social housing supply economically feasible or not.
Note to haters: This shows that for North American center cities, already built out by WWII, adding lots of housing did not have the effect of lowering prices, compared to those center cities that added less.
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RT @pressagit: A very exciting post day - proofs for Ed Emery’s ‘Letters to a Future Republic’ have arrived! . They’ll be available to orde….
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80% of South Bronx was burnt to the ground in the seventies. For all those who've wondered about the 'urban myth' of deliberate fire-starting as a means of urban displacement and renewal.
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RT @ruth_gilbert: 🚨The consultation on rent controls ends tomorrow. ❌ Shamefully, Scotgov is buckling to landlords & their lobbyists who a….
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Only 9 Labour MPs voted against proscribing Palestine Action as a 'terrorist' organisation. 276 Labour MPs voted in favour.
votes.parliament.uk
Terrorism Act 2000 (Proscribed Organisations) (Amendment) Order 2025
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Makes you wonder if collective capital even gives a shit about economic growth anymore - its supposed modus operandi. But then maybe that was never the intention of two decades of austerity.
Since 2008, the UK economy has seen the most severe growth-slowdown of any advanced economy.
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RT @Monorail_Music: Please consider sharing and supporting this fundraiser for the wonderful Keith McIvor (JD Twitch) who has recently been….
crowdfunder.co.uk
Helping Keith McIvor (JD Twitch) access urgent care and therapies to manage and ease symptoms
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This guy is on the Parliamentary Liaison Group for Housing. Utterly cheesy and predictable analysis: deregulate; build, build, build. Starting off with an ode to likely the most neoliberal rentier city in the UK is telling, plus no accounting for land costs.
🧵 Why doesn’t Sheffield (or South Yorkshire) build more high-quality buildings and glass skyscrapers like Manchester or Leeds?. I hear this a lot online, in the news, and in conversation. The answer is simple: viability. A short thread.
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This is insane, and surely criminal? I had to check this wasn't AI or mocked up before reposting.
They burned a boat full of effigies. Of people. Migrants. Refugees. On purpose. In 2025. In the UK. If your spine isn’t cold, you’re not paying attention.
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RT @newglasgowsoc: As part of #Glasgow850, Chris Leslie joins us for his talk this month titled Wounded Landscapes. In his lecture #Wounde….
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Beautiful contraband of my youth.
MADE IN BRITAIN (1982): Tim Roth made his explosive acting debut in David Leland and Alan Clarke's astonishing ITV play as Trevor, a 16 year-old racist skinhead. The great Eric 'Sgt Bob Crier' Richard plays his social worker.
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Great film with some great performances, not least Art Smith.
On this day, 78 years ago, Jules Dassin's "Brute Force" (1947) premiered in Los Angeles, California.
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RT @GerryHassan: The entire UK political/media narrative on welfare is that it is "burgeoning", "a burden" & "unsustainable". But how high….
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Extreme racism and sectarianism combined in Ballymena, NI. Really horrifying stuff.
Does anybody know, does anybody care, about the extent of the fear people are living in in Ballymena? Do we now forget the black and brown people - and locals - living under this terror because the flames are out? The extent of this is jawdropping. Grim, depressing, shameful.
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RT @stellarossssa: Did you know that every landlord in Scotland was invited to respond to the Scottish government’s consultation on rent co….
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