housing
Content about housing, housing policy and struggles over housing and accommodation.
Living Learning
An introduction to the new Abahlali baseMjondolo, a South African shackdwellers movement launched in Pinetown (near Durban) at an event attended by hundreds of people, two days before the ANC militia attacked Kennedy Road.
Out of Order: A living learning for a living politics
We are poor, not stupid.
- Ashraf Casiem1
The oppressed have been…reduced…to things. In order to regain their humanity they must cease to be things and fight as men and women. This is a radical requirement. They cannot enter the struggle as objects in order later to become human beings.
- Paulo Freire2
Glasgow tenants to demonstrate against Housing Association
Hamiltonhill Action Group will be holding a demonstration with the Scottish Tennants' Organisation 24 September, against the Glasgow Housing Authority's (GHA) refusal to invest money in their community on .
Since putting in a formal request to GHA for a timetable of works to install Secured By Design steel security doors in Hamiltonhill, the Hamiltonhill Action Group have now escalated the campaign, since GHA have chosen to completely ignore both the request and complaint logged by the residents via the Action Group.
Help the economy: sleep on the streets - The Red Menace
The Red Menace reviews No Reservations: Housing, Space and Class Struggle.
"More and more the city is a monolithic temple to the power of money over us, as the pyramids were to the power of the pharoahs over the slaves- and like the servants of the pharoahs, we are buried alive inside it."
Mass rebellion in South Africa
In South Africa the state is being confronted by an eruption of self organised popular protest on a scale not seen since the 1980s. This article, from the mainstream press there, gives a much better overview than the articles in the British press that miss the politics of the rebellion.
Burning message to the state in the fire of poor’s rebellion
Richard Pithouse
California homeless hold demonstration to demand accomodations
On July 2, 2009, hundreds of homeless Californians marched on the Sacramento Town Hall to demand "safe ground".
It has been about three months since city officials shut down a large "tent city" occupied by Sacramento's homeless people.
Now, some of the tent city's residents say they feel like refugees, with no place to go. They staged a loud demonstration Wednesday, in hopes of pressuring Sacramento officials to find them a new place to camp.
'Where Am I Supposed To Live?'
Housing activists seize MPs' home
A group of housing activists have entered and occupied the house of expenses-scandal hit husband and wife Anne and Alan Keene.
Co-operative housekeeping - Sylvia Pankhurst
Sylvia Pankhurst describes her experience of daily life in a co-operative home.
I haven't described our Co-operative home to you. It is built round a square garden and there is another garden round it. There is also a garden on the roof. The dining- room and kitchen are on the top floor. The school nursery, crèche, and children's garden is at the end of the block of buildings.
We are the Third Force - S'bu Zikode
S'bu Zikode's article in response to the attempts of the South African government to attack the shack dwellers' movement.
[b]This article was written by S'bu Zikode in 2005 at a time when the political elite was responding to the emergence of a militant shack dwellers' movement with paranoia and conspiracy theory. The main allegations was that a 'Third Force' (i.e. renegade apartheid security personnel) was 'behind' the movement.
TAZCVRL: Power beyond the state in the favelas of Rio de Janeiro
Article on the nature of life and power in the slums of Rio de Janeiro.
TAZCVRL
power in the favela
"The bandit is the hero, the defender, the popular avenger, the irreconcilable enemy of the State, and of all social and civil order established by the State. " M. Bakunin (1)
Resisting degradations and divisions: an interview with S'bu Zikode
S’bu Zikode is the elected president of Abahlali baseMjondolo, a radical and radically democratic shackdwellers’ movement in South Africa that has committed itself to waging its struggles independently from party-political and NGO control.[1] This is an excerpt from a longer interview.
Richard Pithouse: What is your understanding of a living politics?
