Pippa Postgate
@PippaPostgate
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CDP PhD student at @ArcDurham with @MOLArchaeology researching Archaeologies of the Welfare State. Previously digging. she/her
London, England
Joined March 2019
Bit of big scary news - I got published for the first time! And it's open access! Thank you to everyone who made it happen!! 🫣
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Archaeologies - The UK’s housing crisis is at breaking point, caused primarily by deregulation, the diminished provision of public housing and the marketing of housing as property assets...
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"New supply in a market dominated by private house builders will also have a limited impact on overall house prices because volume builders operate a business model that actively seeks to keep them high."
Building 1.5m homes is not the same as ending the housing crisis. Bit by me for @dezeen: https://t.co/areWTeCkAw
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Finance and NOT supply is the root cause of high house prices … @RachelReevesMP & @AngelaRayner have the wrong diagnosis and wrong cure. Soaring UK house prices are not due to lack of supply, Bank of England finds
independent.co.uk
‘Sustained, dramatic, and consistently unexpected decline’ in rates has driven property values sky-high
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Since the 1990s we’ve had a 7% net gain in housing stock, and yet a 300% increase in rents. But sure, let’s just keep doing the same thing and hope it gets better, instead of restoring the rent controls that Thatcher abolished. https://t.co/kh9zmg7XWU
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Continuity Thatcherism from Reeves, sadly. Which means that rents and housing costs *must* stay horrendously high.
🚨 BREAKING: Chancellor Rachel Reeves confirms that the new government won't build any council homes. Reeves told a press conference: "We need the private sector to build homes. We're not going to be in the business of building those homes directly". (Source: BBC News)
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Saw 4 of these on the tram this morning @TfL why are you taking money from an anti lgbt+ conspiracy theory preacher during pride month? Does this conform to your anti-hate messaging?
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🚨 Top 10 Councils that currently have the most empty council homes: Melton Borough Council: 1810 homes Southwark Council: 1,588 homes Ealing Council: 1,183 homes Lambeth Council: 726 homes Newham Borough Council: 688 homes Leeds City Council: 589 homes Nottingham City
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Very good write-up by the lawyers of Aysen Dennis's victory over Notting Hill Housing and Southwark Council at the Aylesbury Estate. Worth a careful read
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Are you bored? Would you like to play with an interactive map showing all the 38,590 overseas entities holding English/Welsh real estate? With clickable thingies that let you identify where someone has unlawfully hidden their ownership... https://t.co/3mVgX5DceJ
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Graphic in today's Observer shows how fall in the proportion of inner London households with children has been felt most strongly in Lambeth and Southwark https://t.co/hDyciwLUNX
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On a @MOLArchaeology @CDPConnect Collaborative Doctoral Partnership students and supervisors outing to the London Mithraeum today.
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My thoughts on the hostile architecture of UK's migrant barge as an act of performative cruelty - for @ConversationUK I flag it as a hazard - with no planning permission - to both migrants and locals, including its potential of becoming Grenfell on water https://t.co/hcWWlsb7iJ
theconversation.com
Semi-carceral facilities accommodating irregular migrants are designed to be hostile spaces that expose people to substandard conditions and keep them on the move, detached from wider society.
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“I was hoping [the result] would be on our side... because sometimes the man with the money gets his own way, over what the people want,” - Didas, stallholder on Pope's Road. “It’s a breath of fresh air to know that the people have spoken.” ❤️ Read here https://t.co/Mk8iYiaW9B
opendemocracy.net
Hondo Enterprises has scrapped plans for a 20-storey office block overlooking the famous Electric Avenue
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My new piece in the @guardian on why liberal antiracists - with their emphasis on correcting vocabulary, diversity training, and unconscious biases - are powerless against today's structures of racism. https://t.co/R7FhCkoQ3i
theguardian.com
While liberal antiracists argue over vocabulary, radicals take direct action – which is the only way to change the system, says author Arun Kundnani
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An outing with @CDPConnect PhD student @PippaPostgate and co-supervisors @DavidPetts1 and Brigid Geist to see case study sites in Southwark - here at the lime kiln in Burgess Park, just as the sun put his hat on. 🌞
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The Housing Crisis is Even Worse Than You Think. Last week’s interview with @Victoria_Spratt has raced to 100,000 views. It’s really worth your time.
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With millions struggling, a rent hike is just an eviction notice under a different name, LRU's Liam tells @Guardian. 💥 Join us on 21 March at Westminster to demand the Renters Reform Bill brings an end to ALL unfair evictions: https://t.co/SeCGtYkOLr
https://t.co/q223F21ZTI
theguardian.com
Some landlords are hiking rents in response to requests for repairs – too many see their tenants purely as sources of profit, says freelance journalist Elle Hunt
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