Disrupting the Speculative City - How the Haringey Development Vehicle was stopped in its tracks

For those who remember or took part in the widespread campaign across the borough to prevent --successfully in 2018-- Haringey Council selling off most of its assets including Council housing through its partnership with Lendlease, called the Haringey Development Vehicle, a new book about it based on interviews with local particpants has just been published.

"The book about StopHDV has been published today! Thank you for contributing to this research - we hope the book does justice to your campaigning"

It's free to read in pdf format: uclpress.co.uk/SpeculativeCity.

If you'd like to order a print copy, you can use this code for a 20% discount: UCL24LSM586L.

The book is based round the activities and experience of key local activists in the StopHDV campaign and draws much wider implications on how far it may have helped change the world of housing speculation, at least away from its worst excesses ---and showed how valued local places and the people who live there can determine the shape of where they live, rather than wealthy corporate firms.

And we did this in Haringey.