Activist who pressed for improvements to poor housing by highlighting the harm that it caused to residents’ health
April 2024
Squatters take over Gordon Ramsay hotel and pub in London
At least six people lock themselves in Grade II-listed York and Albany next to Regent’s Park and post notice
December 2023
Squatting is on the rise again in Britain – and in this vicious housing crisis, is anyone surprised?
Jason Rodrigues
Some are turning to the UK’s many vacant properties for shelter. Could this be a return to the 70s and 80s, asks Guardian researcher Jason Rodrigues
September 2023
John Turner obituary
Architect impressed by urban squatter settlements in Peru who then set about persuading the wider world of their value
December 2022
Reaching out to the squatters from down the street laid bare their fragile existence
Rose Lane
‘You’re wonderful!’ Beth said. But I didn’t feel wonderful. I felt privileged to have never experienced homelessness
September 2022
It’s not all coffee shops and hipsters: what we get wrong about gentrification
Leslie Kern
Communities should mobilise against the property industry and its partners, says Leslie Kern, a professor of geography and environment
November 2021
Brief letters
Why sleeping rough was rare in the 70s
The Guardian documentary
Sindicat: evading eviction in one of Europe's most densely populated cities – video
October 2020
Other lives
Mick Hugo obituary
Other Lives: Merchant seaman turned builder who helped set up Hackney Housing Co-operative in London
September 2019
'Organise to resist’: the radical posters of the Paddington Printshop
Operating from an old factory in north-west London, John Phillips and the Paddington Printshop revolutionised the promotion of squatters rights and housing campaigns throughout the 1970s and 80s
August 2019
Inside Exarcheia: the self-governing community Athens police want rid of
The central Athens neighbourhood of Exarcheia, which has helped house refugees, is in the crosshairs of a government crackdown
November 2018
The rise of the 'meanwhile space': how empty properties are finding second lives
Rather than let properties lie empty, Paris is learning to hand them over temporarily to community groups and startups
October 2018
Urban eye
Life in Amsterdam's biggest squat – in pictures
After 20 years, squatters occupying the Amsterdamse Droogdok Maatschappij former shipyard have been ordered to leave. Photographer Sanne Derks met members of the community, who say moving elsewhere is impossible
January 2018
Congolese government in rent arrears for London embassy
Empty homes: if councils won't act, ordinary people should move in
Lisa Mckenzie
October 2017
Freedom for Frestonia: the London commune that cut loose from the UK
What Pete Phoenix has learned from 30 years of direct action: ‘You have to be relentless’
September 2017
Observer dispatch
Driven by poverty, squatters occupied a derelict São Paulo hotel. Now they face eviction
Anger is growing over the threatened expulsion of around 1,000 people from an abandoned building in Brazil’s biggest city
July 2017
Squatting makes the world a better place – get behind it
