Council joins bid to impose nightly accommodation rent cap on private sector
London Councils reach agreement as spiralling costs for short-term housing forces boroughs into bidding wars
Philip Glanville
What a difference a year makes – a look back at 2014
2014 saw skyscrapers planned for Shoreditch, Hoxton residents fighting back against investors, glyphosate scandals and ‘peak gentrification’
Councillor Philip Glanville makes history with midnight wedding
Hoxton councillor and partner Giles McCrary convert civil partnership into marriage one minute after changes to law come into effect
New Era residents march to Downing Street to hand in 300,000 signature petition
Hoxton residents call on Westbrook Partners to ‘do the right thing’ and let them remain in their homes
Derelict Homerton pub to become second ‘pocket home’ development
The Deuragon Arms will be demolished to make way for 29 one-bedroom microflats aimed at the borough’s ‘city-makers’
Apprentices and unemployed to work on £4m Council development scheme
King Edward’s Road development includes 15 homes for social rent subsidised by 17 homes for private sale
‘The toilet is in the shower’: vulnerable tenants in tiny £258 a week flats hit with ‘revenge evictions’
Tenants in Stoke Newington flats threatened with eviction after complaining about noise from music rehearsal studios below
Eviction of council house tenants in Hackney rises by 60 per cent
98 people in one year forced to leave their council homes due to rent arrears
Victory for Digs as council agrees to avoid ‘luxury’ property fair MIPIM
Town Hall says it will not to go to ‘champagne-fuelled’ property show in Kensington Olympia
Leader – Mayor Pipe’s policy is Pickles’ dream
Does Hackney’s Labour leader see Tories’ council tax vote-winner as measure of his success?
How the council is tackling Hackney’s affordable housing crisis
Tenants in social housing to be given first refusal on shared ownership homes, says Councillor Philip Glanville
Leaseholders in ‘David and Goliath’ legal fight over Town Hall contract bid
Council denies agreement with Hackney Homes would lead to less transparency