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Demanding a Fair Housing Policy, not Charity!

December 24, 2018 · The IotL Magazine ·

In countries with low public welfare spending such as Malta, individuals are aware that their (and their family’s) social welfare depends on the accumulation of private wealth. Therefore, the state needs to step in as a social partner.

Tagged With: housing, neoliberalism, rent, rent control

We All Need a Home Towards a Politics of Kindness

February 1, 2018 · Rachael Scicluna ·

How could it be that a nation of ‘ambivalent Europeans’, which is hostile to migrants, can carve out pockets of compassion and kindness towards stray cats?

Tagged With: housing, kindness, Malta, rent

PL: The Party Which Lost Its Soul Centre-Left in Name, Today’s Labour is a Neoliberal 'Business-Friendly' Party

January 9, 2018 · Joseph Abela ·

Today’s Labour Party simply stands for making the cake bigger, not dividing it in a fair way.

Tagged With: economic growth, inequality, Labour Party, minimum wage, rent

Defining Poverty

December 2, 2017 · Matthew Darmanin ·

Why Malta urgently needs a rent regulation scheme.

Tagged With: Malta Housing Association, MDA, poverty, property market, rent, rent control, social housing

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