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2015 EXPOSING BRITAIN’S SOCIAL EVILS prize finalist
Aditya Chakrabortty
London Housing Crisis, The Guardian
Last year marked the point at which London’s housing crisis went from dinner-party grumble to national front-page news.
Aditya chakrabortty biography of martin
Luxury flats were snapped up for millions by the super-rich, while entire communities faced the prospect of being shunted out of their homes. This was a story that Aditya Chakrabortty made his own, both reporting from the frontline of London’s housing crisis and analysing its driving forces.
His columns have often helped shape the wider debate: the enclosed piece on the Focus E15 Mothers sparked a storm of interest in Britain and around the world; while the article on New Era provoked widespread outrage, forcing the withdrawal just two days later of a party of investors.
In his investigative reporting, Aditya brought out the harsh realities of ‘regeneration’ in a landmark piece of long reporting that took up most of a G2 supplement. He also went behind