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Jordan Valley Palestinians face eviction

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Letters

Housing, prostitution, violence and the pursuit of economic growth. Praise, blame and all the points in between? Give us your feedback.

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Housing - THE FACTS

Prices through the roof, a gaping deficit, homelessness, one billion in slums and an urban takeover.

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Stop evictions! Protesters signal their anger outside a bank in Barcelona.Manu Fernandez / AP Photo

Resisting evictions Spanish style

The fallout the property bubble is mass homelessness. Melissa García Lamarca records how public anger has galvanized the movement for housing justice.

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Frozen mid-jump in a 2008 snapshot of the US housing crisis: this girl’s family’s belongings lie on the sidewalk, following their eviction from their home in Waco, Texas. Her four siblings are not in the frame.Larry Downing / Reuters

Safe as houses?

Homes are for living in – so why are they sites of great insecurity? Dinyar Godrej makes the case against the scandal and delusion of the property marketplace.

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Articles in this category displayed as a table:

Article title	From magazine	Publication date
Jordan Valley Palestinians face eviction	The war on whistleblowers	April, 2014
Letters	Argentina's challenge	June, 2013
Housing - THE FACTS	Demolition job	April, 2013
Resisting evictions Spanish style	Demolition job	April, 2013
Safe as houses?	Demolition job	April, 2013

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