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MAYOR’S HOUSING STRATEGY WON’T SOLVE LONDON’S HOUSING CRISIS: PART 2 – BUILDING AFFORDABLE HOMES

November 4, 2017 admin Uncategorized Leave a comment

  The concept of affordable housing has become debased since it was introduced by the coalition government in 2014 as

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Mayor’s Housing Strategy won’t solve London’s housing crisis: part 1

October 29, 2017 admin Uncategorized Leave a comment

At the heart of the Mayor’s London Housing Strategy is the sale of public land to private property developers. This

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Housing associations cash in on Grenfell tragedy

October 12, 2017 admin Uncategorized Leave a comment

The latest housing association scandal is probably the worst so far. Notting Hill Housing and other ‘registered providers’ delayed the

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Grenfell Tower silent march Saturday 14th October

October 11, 2017 admin Demonstrations, Uncategorized Leave a comment

Grenfell Speaks Join Zeyad Cred and the residents of North Kensington in solidarity this Saturday 14th October 2017 as they

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Support the campaign against the NHH/Genesis merger. Protest Weds 13th Sept from 5:30pm

September 5, 2017 admin Uncategorized Leave a comment

The two residents organisation for Notting Hill Housing and Genesis – Listen!NHH and Genesis Residents – call on the housing movement

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Labour’s Policy on Housing Associations

August 22, 2017 admin Uncategorized Leave a comment

Labour’s housing policy has little to say about housing associations. The manifesto document, New Deal on Housing, introduced by John Healey,

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Protest against the Notting Hill/Genesis merger Monday 21 August 5:00pm

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Support the protest against the merger by residents of the two HAs! Outside the Hammersmith offices of Notting Hill Housing on

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Grenfell Tower

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For housing association tenants and leaseholders, the horrific Grenfell Tower fire is a reminder of what happens when governments gift

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Deregulating housing associations – a tenant’s guide

July 6, 2017 admin Uncategorized Leave a comment

Deregulation means the government shrugging off control and therefore responsibility for services to the people – such as housing. Housing

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Campaigners ‘decorate’ key worker homes around Victoria Park in protest over Peabody sale

Campaigners have cranked up their protests over a housing association’s planned sales of former “key worker” homes near Victoria Park by “decorating them” with posters.

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Come out to support these protests against the sale of social rent homes!

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GMB support pickets against auction of social housing

GMB London support pickets on February 14 & 19 against public auctions of London social housing after housing report shows 165,000 social homes lost since 2012

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NHG 'converted' 547 social rent homes to unaffordable 'affordable rent' last year. NHG claim they have a 'social purpose.'

And Allsops the auctioneer is selling off yet more housing association social rent homes this month.

And so it goes - the betrayal of ethics and principles by management of the housing association movement.

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“47,869 housing association homes for social rent were lost between 2012 and 2018” Chartered Institute of Housing – Housing Association Residents Action (HARA)

“47,869 housing association homes for social rent were lost between 2012 and 2018” Chartered Institute of Housing February 8, 2019 admin HA Campaigning Leave a comment News from the Chartered Institute of Housing. Below are just a couple of extracts taken directly from the article on the CIH web...

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Joining the HARA e mail list

Just write an e mail to us on the HARA e mail saying you want to go on the contact list.

If you are resident of a housing association (tenants, shared owner or leaseholder) please give us the name of the HA.

The e mail is:

ha.residents.action@gmail.com

Links to campaigns – FB, Twitter or websites

Victoria Park Community Association

https://www.victoriaparkcommunityassociation.org.uk

Genesis Residents – now Notting Hill Genesis

http://genesisresidents.org.uk

Tower Hamlets federation of Tenants and Residents

https://www.facebook.com/Tower-Hamlets-Federation-of-Tenants-Residents-Associations-180623381952214/

Save Tidemill campaign

https://www.facebook.com/savetidemill/.  

Save Reginald Save Tidemill

Twitter @oldtidemillgrdn

Macintosh Court Residents Associations

Macintosh Court Residents Association. SW16

Twitter   @court_sw16

Pelican Plus

Twitter    @PelicanPlus 

PELICAN PLUS is a tenants & residents association for PELICAN ESTATE, TALFOURD RD/PL, DENMAN RD, GRUMMANT RD – PECKHAM

TRA’S SOUTHWARK

Twitter    @s_southwark 

This is designed to reach all Tenant and Resident Associations in London, particularly Southwark.

Montreal square RA

Twitter   @MontrealSqRA 

Montreal Square R A as been set up to to help the residents deal with CHS proposed demolition of the 18 houses in Montreal Square 30trees and green space also

Up the Elephant

Twitter    @UpTheElephant_ 

Local campaign to stop Delancey’s destructive plans for Ele & Castle + win regeneration that works for the community **Sadiq Khan: refuse the application**

STOP Paddington Cube

Twitter    @PaddingtonTower

Residents engaging with plans for “regeneration” and campaigning for better development

Save Cressingham

Twitter    @SaveCressingham

Save the beautiful leafy Cressingham Gardens community estate. Politicians and Lambeth Council to demolish estate as part of regeneration

Save Achilles Area

Twitter      @achilles_newx Follows you

Area of New Cross under threat of demolition by Lewisham Council. The area includes: Achilles Street, part of New Cross Rd & Clifton Rise.

Waterloo Residents Alliance

Twitter.      @WaterlooSE1

Waterloo Residents Alliance are fighting to secure land meant for social housing for social housing #Homelessness

Listen Notting Hill Genesis

Twitter.     @ListenNHH 

Real Representation for Notting Hill Genesis tenants and residents.

PeabodyFamilyVoice

Twitter.  @pf_voice 

We are organising Peabody and Family Mosaic tenants and residents to defend social housing and demand that the Housing Association improves the way it treats us

We Saved Northwold E5 

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@SaveNorthwoldE5.   Twitter

Tenants + leaseholders who fought Guinness’s demolition plans – and won. Now holding them to account re: infill plans, maintenance + preserving social rents.

London Estates

@LDNestates.  Twitter

Shared info and network building from @sianberry in the London Assembly to support groups defending social housing and estates.

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