Social Housing/ private renters/ squatters/ homeless
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Added to Buzz now.
It all went a bit nuts on The Aylesbury estate occupation yesterday.
Some really good point made in that video.
The gentrification of Brixton, the eviction of working class people from social housing and now the arches. The only people failing to join up the dots are those that are obsessed with property prices in a frankly pornographic manner. They refuse to see the bigger picture because to do so would collapse their entire house of cards. Everything they know is wrong.
Gramsci
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Mr Retro
Beware hedgehogs
I just can't imagine the stress of that situation. Having to fight for a roof over your head, the stress must be overwhelming.
ViolentPanda
Hardly getting over it.
The alternative is worse, though, for most of those tenants. You have two choices: accede to GT's demands, with no guarantee to a roof over your head, or fight, fight and fight again. Bear in mind that the most that many of the GT tenants involved can expect, even families, is a single room in some "temporary accommodation"-cum-barracks, or being shipped to somewhere or anywhere with available/affordable housing.
Mr Retro
Beware hedgehogs
Sure, my point is that they have to do it at all is terrible.
ViolentPanda
Hardly getting over it.
Of course it is, and sadly it's a situation for which there's only one group of people to blame - Westminster politicians. Without the housing/land price bubble that Westminster has sustained for the last 10+ years, Guinness (and several other Housing Trusts in the south-east) wouldn't have dreamed of interrupting the handy income stream provided by rents. Then add to the price bubble the reality of the Benefits Cap, which has demotivated Housing Trusts and private landlords from letting to benefits claimants. A perfect storm for the disadvantaged.
Gramsci
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Statement from Lambeth Housing Activists:
OCCUPATION OVER BUT CAMPAIGN CONTINUES!
A huge thank you to all who came out yesterday morning in the cold to protest against the shameful treatment of the shorthold tenants (ASTs) by Guinness.
Having stopped the eviction that was due to take place yesterday and won the right for all the AST tenants to apply for secure Guinness homes in London, we took the decision to end the occupation.
But the campaign to make sure these 44 families are not evicted will continue – we can’t allow this social cleansing.
If Guinness get any further court orders to send bailiffs to evict anyone off the estate we will organise again to resist it.
Well done to all involved in the success of the campaign so far.
Next steps:
Saturday: Stall at Brixton tube 11am-1pm collect signatures on petition and raise profile of campaign
Monday: meet 8am at Guinness estate SW9 8NN to travel together to #blockthebudget at City Hall and demand Boris stumps up the cash needed to ensure that every home on the Guinness estate is social housing. Then there would be more than enough accommodation for all the AST tenants to be rehoused locally.
More details at https://www.facebook.com/events/828141947231932
OCCUPATION OVER BUT CAMPAIGN CONTINUES!
A huge thank you to all who came out yesterday morning in the cold to protest against the shameful treatment of the shorthold tenants (ASTs) by Guinness.
Having stopped the eviction that was due to take place yesterday and won the right for all the AST tenants to apply for secure Guinness homes in London, we took the decision to end the occupation.
But the campaign to make sure these 44 families are not evicted will continue – we can’t allow this social cleansing.
If Guinness get any further court orders to send bailiffs to evict anyone off the estate we will organise again to resist it.
Well done to all involved in the success of the campaign so far.
Next steps:
Saturday: Stall at Brixton tube 11am-1pm collect signatures on petition and raise profile of campaign
Monday: meet 8am at Guinness estate SW9 8NN to travel together to #blockthebudget at City Hall and demand Boris stumps up the cash needed to ensure that every home on the Guinness estate is social housing. Then there would be more than enough accommodation for all the AST tenants to be rehoused locally.
More details at https://www.facebook.com/events/828141947231932
Gramsci
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Interview with a Guinness Trust AST here on Brixton Buzz
Brixton Blog article on the climbdown by GT on the eviction that was to happen last Thursday.
Brixton Buzz article here
Both Brixton Buzz and Brixton Blog have done a great job in getting GT AST tenants plight in media.
@editor Brixton Buzz piece on the Sunday of occupation clearly did get the campaign noticed by other media.
Also Urban75 has got a lot of goodwill by supporting GT.
Brixton Blog article on the climbdown by GT on the eviction that was to happen last Thursday.
Brixton Buzz article here
Both Brixton Buzz and Brixton Blog have done a great job in getting GT AST tenants plight in media.
@editor Brixton Buzz piece on the Sunday of occupation clearly did get the campaign noticed by other media.
Also Urban75 has got a lot of goodwill by supporting GT.
There is a good article in this weeks edition of the Big Issue; Loughborough Park residents get a mention.
Adam Forrest looks at some of the estates bequeathed by Victorian rich fellows for the greater good. They're being sold off and the people moved on. So what next?
Did my best with the scan
Adam Forrest looks at some of the estates bequeathed by Victorian rich fellows for the greater good. They're being sold off and the people moved on. So what next?
Did my best with the scan
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Today, HASL visited Lambeth Council at Olive Morris House to support two members whose families are living in private rented sector flats which are infested with rats and bed bugs, have blocked drains and exposed electrical wiring – facts which the council are already aware of.
https://housingactionsouthwarkandla...gatekeeping-masterclass-from-lambeth-council/
https://housingactionsouthwarkandla...gatekeeping-masterclass-from-lambeth-council/
Eddie Izzard locks horns with landlords over Chelsea social housing estate
Comedian targets ‘moneyocracy’ by fighting Affinity Sutton’s plans to replace 144 low-rent homes at William Sutton Estate with luxury apartments.
http://www.theguardian.com/culture/...horns-landlords-chelsea-social-housing-estate
Comedian targets ‘moneyocracy’ by fighting Affinity Sutton’s plans to replace 144 low-rent homes at William Sutton Estate with luxury apartments.
http://www.theguardian.com/culture/...horns-landlords-chelsea-social-housing-estate
Gramsci
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Housing Action Southwark and Lambeth are holding a free "Supper Club" this Sunday at Art Nouveau 77 Atlantic road between 3 and 7pm. All welome.
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superfly101
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If you want to understand what constitutes vulnerable on mental health grounds to Lambeth Council have a look at their Council Tax Support Scheme and exemption from paying anything; so zero rate.
You basically have to have evidence from GP/Consultant not more than 6 months old stating that you have severe learning difficulties or functional impairment. If you get past that, you will then be sent to see Lambeth Councils own health care professional for testing before a decision is made.
That's for £3 a week! Which everybody else on benefits have had to pay since 2012.
Lambeth are also actively prioritising those in work over those not in work.
CH1
"Red Guard"(NLYL)
Radio 4 on Monday morning had an item about "poor doors" http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p02ll8j4
The development in question was apparently in E1. What surprised me at that hour was the "vox pop" from someone using the "posh door".
"I'm a student" she says. The interviewer probed for compassion or guilt from the student regarding those who have to use the "Poor door"
"I don't care" she said - presumably secure in finance from family abroad.
The development in question was apparently in E1. What surprised me at that hour was the "vox pop" from someone using the "posh door".
"I'm a student" she says. The interviewer probed for compassion or guilt from the student regarding those who have to use the "Poor door"
"I don't care" she said - presumably secure in finance from family abroad.
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CH1
"Red Guard"(NLYL)
Lecture at Goldsmiths tomorrow. These lectures seem to be open to all (I've not been chucked out yet)
Council Housing Estates in London: From Urban Marginality to State-Led Gentrification with Dr. Paul Watt (Birkbeck)
This paper examines how processes of ‘state-led gentrification’ are occurring at London’s council housing estates via area-based regeneration programmes. These estates are currently disappearing from the city’s skyline in the name of regeneration and improving the lives and opportunities of their residents. New mixed-tenure developments are arising where the estates used to stand. These developments are dominated by gleaming private tower blocks, the 21st century distorted mirror image of their much-maligned modernist council housing antecedents. What long-term processes have brought this dramatic state of affairs about? How have London’s council housing residents (primarily multi-ethnic working class) responded to their estates’ demise or threatened demise? What political responses can be identified to state-led gentrification at this time of ever-deepening housing crisis in London? This paper examines these questions with reference to London-wide research on the changing nature of social housing provision, but with a focus on the outer London Borough of Barnet.
Event InformationLocation: 142, Richard Hoggart Building
Department: Sociology Time: 11 March 2015, 16:00 - 18:00
Council Housing Estates in London: From Urban Marginality to State-Led Gentrification with Dr. Paul Watt (Birkbeck)
This paper examines how processes of ‘state-led gentrification’ are occurring at London’s council housing estates via area-based regeneration programmes. These estates are currently disappearing from the city’s skyline in the name of regeneration and improving the lives and opportunities of their residents. New mixed-tenure developments are arising where the estates used to stand. These developments are dominated by gleaming private tower blocks, the 21st century distorted mirror image of their much-maligned modernist council housing antecedents. What long-term processes have brought this dramatic state of affairs about? How have London’s council housing residents (primarily multi-ethnic working class) responded to their estates’ demise or threatened demise? What political responses can be identified to state-led gentrification at this time of ever-deepening housing crisis in London? This paper examines these questions with reference to London-wide research on the changing nature of social housing provision, but with a focus on the outer London Borough of Barnet.
Event InformationLocation: 142, Richard Hoggart Building
Department: Sociology Time: 11 March 2015, 16:00 - 18:00
Good piece in the Guardian today;
http://www.theguardian.com/society/...is-10-ways-solve-rowan-moore-general-election
"The only time when the total housing numbers exceeded those now thought essential was in the 1950s and 1960s, when council housing accounted for half the figure."
http://www.theguardian.com/society/...is-10-ways-solve-rowan-moore-general-election
"The only time when the total housing numbers exceeded those now thought essential was in the 1950s and 1960s, when council housing accounted for half the figure."
CH1
"Red Guard"(NLYL)
Interesting article.
Regarding the 1950s and 60s - that was the time of "New Towns" such as Harlow, Stevenage, Basildon etc.
The new towns provided modern business accommodation as well as council housing for the workers on previously green field sites.
Government packages then enabled businesses and their employees to move from the over crowded London sites to suitable new town locations.
It is difficult to imagine the present market-oriented politicians of any party wanting to achieve that - it required a lot of strategic planning and public investment, not only in housing, but also providing suitable employment.
ViolentPanda
Hardly getting over it.
oryx
Sitting on the bok of the day
Piece in the Substandard yesterday:
http://www.standard.co.uk/news/lond...esidents-on-south-london-estate-10111961.html
http://www.standard.co.uk/news/lond...esidents-on-south-london-estate-10111961.html
