housing
Content about housing, housing policy and struggles over housing and accommodation.
Tower Hamlets strike over staff victimised for opposing stock transfer
Staff at Tower Hamlets council began a two day strike today after a housing campaigner lost her job after working for the council for 14 years.
There will be a picket of the council offices over the course of the two day strike in solidarity for Eileen Short, after her job 'ceased to exist' during a town hall reorganisation. Ms Short is also a council tenant and member of the national committee for Defend Council Housing.
St Agnes Place eviction resistance
The baliffs and police will be on St Agnes Place Community in Kennington Park tomorrow morning to start the evictions for demolition to commence.
To come along and show your support as early as you can (by 8am preferably). This eviction if successful will mean an end to 30 years of this multicultural community, and will leave 150 people homeless and facing winter conditions with nowhere to go.
How to get there.....
http://www.stagnesplace.net/index.php?module=htmlpages&func=display&pid=5
Exposing John Prescott's housing policies
The office Of The Deputy Prime Minister (ODMP) laid down the Decent Homes Standards to improve social housing by 2010, therefore directly benefiting communities. The flip side to this is the destruction of communities in Co-op run social housing.
Councils are repossessing all their properties, effectively making Co-op tenants homeless. Traditional social housing stock is disappearing, Co-ops are facing critical times.
Housing guide
A page of advice on taking action to house yourself cheaply and know your rights, in a time when buying a property is beyond many people, council housing is being sold off, rents are rising and hundreds of thousands are homeless.
In the UK - the world's 4th richest country, 400,000 people are homeless. Meanwhile, over 700,000 properties lie empty1. If you want to take direct action to house yourself, read on...
- 1. Source: Shelter
