Tag: focus e15

7 Tips for Getting Organised in Your Community
In this bumper instalment, Housing Action Southwark and Lambeth activists give their top tips for organising and winning in your community.
8 Key Findings into Council-Administered Social Cleansing in London
Housing Action Southwark and Lambeth has used freedom of information (FOI) requests in every London borough to research the effect of the 2011 Localism Act on the rehousing of homeless households. The findings reveal the social cleansing of central London by the hands of local authorities.
London’s Housing Crisis: 4 Problems and 6 Solutions
In the election run-up, the housing crisis has conveniently been taken off most agendas apart from the odd nod to 'affordable homes' or the building of a handful of new houses. Here are the pressing problems in housing and some ideas of how we address them.
The struggle for decent homes cuts to the heart of post-crisis Britain
We're told that growth is back, yet all around working class people are being smothered with escalating rents - many being forcibly moved or made homeless. What is the 'housing crisis', what makes it so bad and what is the answer?
6 Reasons We Need to Name the Enemy
Gabriel Bristow argues that just as it's becoming increasingly difficult to point to our political enemies, it's never been more crucial.
4 Lessons We Should Learn From the Focus E15 Mothers
While 20,000 are waiting to be housed in the London Borough of Newham, 600 homes stand empty on one estate alone. Rid of tenants and put up for sale, Labour-run Newham Council has used the rising land prices of the area around the Olympic Park to cash in while thousands go without homes. The Focus E15 Mothers campaign is attempting to turn the tide in Newham and beyond by highlighting the stark injustice of London's housing crisis.
Focus E15 Mothers: Meet the Carpenters Estate’s Newest Occupiers
Since launching in response to the closure of a hostel-based mother and baby unit in October 2013, the Focus E15 Mothers campaign has gone from strength to strength, from a thousands-strong petition to keep the families in Newham, East London, to holding a series of occupations and forcing Newham Council to find them homes. On 21 September the group held a family fun day on the Carpenters estate which culminated in a new occupation.