Community activists who fought demolition of our Leeds homes. Lost in 2021, most evicted. Still raising voices against housing insecurity.
Leeds
Joined October 2017
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ResidentActionGroup retweeted
My book Eviction was published a year ago today and a lot has changed since then: the end of Section 21 no fault evictions, end of fixed term tenancies, longer notice periods. Crucial gains, long overdue. BUT the system still allows landlords to force tenants out.
ResidentActionGroup retweeted
Section 21 evictions haven’t finished yet! Landlord court filings have risen.. we know exactly what waiting for bailiffs feels like. Huge rent rises are forcing people out too. London tenants’ rent up by 43%! New article by our @DrJ_Field for @ZeteoUk: tinyurl.com/3e3e2v87
ResidentActionGroup retweeted
England's temporary accommodation crisis isn't a failure of policy or finances. It's the system working as built. In LIFELINES, a @Justlife report out today, I explore how –from Victorians to New Labour– we got into this mess. And how to get out of it: justlife.org.uk/our-work/res…
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If in Leeds on the 20th May, please get a ticket for this. Talking about housing. Author Jessica Field is on panel
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Callout to Leeds folks: I'm hosting a panel: *What can we do about the housing crisis?* Weds 20 May, 19:00, Wharf Rooms. Feat.: Pratichi Chatterjee, Stuart Hodkinson, Paul Chatterton and HoldFast bookshop (coinciding with UK-REiiF boo hiss). Do come!
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ResidentActionGroup retweeted
🆘 Privatisation has failed housing
Right to Buy without replacement hollowed out social housing.
Now we have:
• Sky-high rents
• Housing benefit soaring
• Families stuck in insecure homes
We’re living with the consequences of decisions made in the 1980s and never corrected.
Housing is infrastructure and we treated it like a clearance sale.
#bbcqt #CostOfLivingCrisis
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I’ve written for @LabourHub about researching my book Eviction - on housing insecurity, family history, and why we need to understand rent from below labourhub.org.uk/2025/11/15/…
Rampant landlordism and tenant resistance
Ahead of two upcoming talks about her new book, Eviction: A Social History of Rent, Jessica Field explains how her own family’s battle led her to explore a history of housing struggles.
@DrJ_Field
labourhub.org.uk/2025/11/15/…
ResidentActionGroup retweeted
Glasgow on 20th November. Jessica Field talking about her book. Please attend if you can. #support
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ResidentActionGroup retweeted
Jessica Field is in Glasgow to talk about her book "eviction" please attend if you are in area on 20th November
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ResidentActionGroup retweeted
That is 6 months away. Why not immediately. How many landlords going to make people #homeless before then
BBC News - Renters’ Rights Act: No-fault evictions banned from May 2026 - BBC News
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ResidentActionGroup retweeted
🚨GREAT NEWS FOR RENTERS🚨
Last night, we defeated last-ditch amendments that would have weakened tenants' rights and shifted power back towards landlords.
The Bill now just needs sign-off from the Commons (and the King) before becoming the Renters' Rights Act!
ResidentActionGroup retweeted
🚨🚨 WIN FOR RENTERS
The House of Lords has just voted 215-204 to remove an amendment to the Renters' Rights Bill that would have weakened the ban on no-fault evictions by reducing disincentives for landlord abuse.
A big win for our RRC members after some intensive campaigning!
ResidentActionGroup retweeted
If you are in Manchester please buy tickets for this. Amazing book about our campaign and housing. Very good read. Please attend if you can
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ResidentActionGroup retweeted
Manchester this week, please attend this book talk from Jessica Field. Buy a ticket and read her book. Its about our campaign we were involved with trying to save our homes. Great book.
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ResidentActionGroup retweeted
Ahh very exciting to see them in your library John! MD was such an inspiration (& reference!!) for Eviction. I've been fortunate enough to read @hol__smith's book too and oh boy, the stuff she reveals about 60's tower block jerrybuilding is jaw dropping. Brilliant book!
Well, this is exciting. Very pleased to have received hard copies of these two new and highly recommended @VersoBooks by @hol__smith and @DrJ_Field ...
ResidentActionGroup retweeted
So grateful to see EVICTION featured in the @NewJournal! Other cases Dan Carrier highlights (eg Chalk Farm, Kentish Town) show exactly what I’m writing about: 150+ years of developers treating tenants as “moveable masses” camdennewjournal.co.uk/artic…
ResidentActionGroup retweeted
Labour's answer to housing is build, build, build! Yet doesn't mention ownership by local state, council housing. @phil_football chose for 'Top 10 Books to Understand Labour Conference' @DrJ_Field briliant book which explains why it should @VersoBooks
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Jessica Field’s Eviction describes the disruption that comes from Britain’s landlord-friendly tenancy laws, told through the prism of the battles fought by her mother and her neighbours to stay in their old coal mining estate in Oulton, on the edge of Leeds
The latest article in the observer newspaper about the book from Jessica field . Please read and RT
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