Construction work seems to be taking place on every corner of Liverpool city centre, tarting up town in time for the Capital of Culture celebrations in 2008. But within easy walking distance of this rich man's paradise project, squalid homes are being starved of repair money, whilst more than adequate social housing dwellings are torn down. What is the Lib Dem(olition) council's agenda? Why, profits of course! All the rich newcomers will need somewhere to live, so working class people have to pay with their homes! But campaigners are fighting back...
Indymedia reports: Post card from Liverpool - What the tourist board wouldn't want tourists to see!|Whole communities will be decimated through gentrification!|Liverpool social housing and local parks under threat!|The Regeneration Game!|Mersey May Day 2006|Smithdown Against Demolition formed in Liverpool!|Thousands of Liverpool Kids living in squalid conditions|Liverpool resident halts Pathfinder programme|London Social Forum - housing and land rights conference|Pathfinder hits the buffer|Outrage in Granby
Other media: BBC Wales|House of Commons Select Committee Report|TenantSpin video debate|Daily Telegraph|Nerve magazine (1)|Nerve magazine (2)|Nerve magazine (3)|Corporate Watch|Guardian|BBC Merseyside|icLiverpool (1)|icLiverpool (2)
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