@HousingActionSL

Housing Action Southwark and Lambeth. Part of the London Coalition Against Poverty. Sign up to our email newsletter ⬇️

mailchi.mp/222fa1ca8d9e/hasl-email-newsletter
Joined July 2013
  • Tweets17.5K
  • Following3.6K
  • Followers6.6K
1.6KMedia
Over 100 of us occupied @LewishamCouncil housing office this morning demanding 'No More House of Horrors'. We were there with two families who have been trapped in hostels for a total of 4 years. These families need local social housing now!
1
25
1
41
11,037
Pricing revealed for 'Elephant Quarter' build-to-rent flats on old Elephant & Castle Shopping Centre site ➡️ Studios from £2610 / month ➡️ 1-beds from £3100 ➡️ 2-bed from £3810 ➡️ 3-bed from £5010 elephantquarter.com/
94
90
478
238
1,031,766
◆Halliday, Josh and Priya Bharadia, 2026, "Vulnerable Families Illegally 'Dumped' Hundreds of Miles Away by London Councils", Guardian, June 7, 2026, (theguardian.com/society/2026…). *Including the comments by Liz Wyatt (Housing Action Southwark and Lambeth) @HousingActionSL

Vulnerable families illegally ‘dumped’ hundreds of miles away by London councils

Exclusive: Practice that includes women fleeing abuse is ‘ripping at social fabric’ of towns in poorest parts of England

theguardian.com
1
1
215
We are 35 years old on Sat June 27th! We be doing a thing! Come down and celebrate with us
3
14
27
773
Elephant and Castle Post War reconstruction: 👌🏼 Draper House mid-60s council housing. Clad in Italian marble and amazing shared interior spaces 👌🏼 Perronet House mid-60s council housing. Award winning 'scissor flats' and amazing shared interior spaces It can be done again!
2
9
19
924
Replying to @56aInfoshop @35percent_EAN @ACAPeckham @AcornSouthwark @LatinElephant @PeckhamVision @PeckhamHeritage @homes4alluk @HousingActionSL @DCHcampaign @se1
Elephant & Castle 2000s onwards 'regeneration' 👎🏼 Strata Tower. Non-functioning turbines. Penthouses 👎🏼One The Elephant. 100% private flats. Penthouses 👎🏼Uncle Tower. Build to rent. 1 bed av. £2500 pcm 👎🏼 Vantage Tower. "Investment opportunity". Mostly private Who benefits?
12
1
23
1,028
🗣️‘I was told I'm lucky I don’t sleep in the kitchen. But we have a fridge-freezer next to the bed’ For almost 3 years, Sonia's family have been living in temporary accommodation that is a category 1 hazard for overcrowding. Read about her fight here✊ 📰 bigissue.com/news/housing/mu…
4
7
309
🗞Our latest newsletter is here with our protest report from last Saturday's National Housing Demo including some stunning photos 🤩read and share it here mailchi.mp/f2ee7edb3eea/sout…
3
8
184
Our member brought us this delicious cake to celebrate her new council home 😋 And these HASL pink flowers as well.
3
8
469
📣📣 March down Old Kent Road! 🚩🚩🚩 *Sat 25 April, 12pm* Faraday Monument Elephant and Castle, opposite Northern Line Tube ✊🏽Join @ShapeCoalition1 and Save OKR 🔊Homes for people, not for profit! ❎ Stop overdevelopment! 🚨No more social cleansing! axethehousingact.org.uk/camp…
2
18
2
21
1,475
HASL retweeted
troovus@troovusApr 18
National Housing Demonstration 172,420 homeless kids Council Housing Now!
10
106
1
210
15,675
Saturday saw the biggest housing protest in a decade with thousands of people taking to the streets to demand mass investment in council housing to end the homeless crisis! 500 HASL members joined this historic housing protest making it our biggest HASL mobilisation ever!🏠❤✊💪
2
16
26
809
That @HousingActionSL block on the National Housing demo last Saturday! What happens when you spend a decade building a community base through horizontal, collective, direct action based organising! 💥💥 And those HASL bandanas! 👌🏽👌🏽
2
5
20
460
National Housing Demo on Saturday. Great to be working together. So many brilliant campaigns. Real change needed. @ShapeCoalition1 @PeckhamVision @56aInfoshop @CommunityPlann1 @justspace7 @homes4alluk @HousingActionSL @LatinElephant @AcornSouthwark @Unite_Comm_LS @PlushSe16
1
13
14
437
A HUGE thanks to @MarcinBrajta who took on an extremely urgent and extremely short notice homeless appeal this morning for a homeless family with disabled kids and got it filed to court this afternoon by the deadline 💪💪
1
6
269
📣📣Southwark council - Meghan needs an EHCP now! Absolutely shameful treatment from Southwark council to 9 year old Meghan😡 📰Meghan's family speak to Schools Week in this article which also features other kids who are being refused the education funding they need
1
2
4
411
schoolsweek.co.uk/the-long-l…

Long-read: The long, lonely wait for special needs help

Schools Week speaks to three families who have found specialist provision hard to come by

schoolsweek.co.uk
1
1
155
“It’s like torture”: our new report reveals how Temporary Accommodation is harming neurodivergent children and families across the UK. Read more today in The Guardian: theguardian.com/society/2026…

Temporary accommodation in England is ‘torture’ for neurodivergent children, report finds

Exclusive: Parents said their children had become withdrawn or hypervigilant because of uncertainty, unsafe environments and removal of support

theguardian.com
3
6
550
We had a legal strategy meeting with HASL organisers + some of the best housing lawyers in London! We talked about how the housing movement uses the law, we shared strategies + knowledge, and we discussed how HASL + lawyers can collaborate to fight for our homelessness rights✊
1
5
137
👀Did you spot HASL on the front page of BBC news today? Great coverage of our latest campaign to stop Lambeth council intimidating homeless families + destroying our homeless rights! Read powerful testimonies from HASL members🔥 Thanks @RubyLGregory bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c8e5…
2
4
217
💥✊As soon as we heard that Lambeth council were making unannounced visits to homeless families in temporary accommodation and threatening to evict them - we took action! Read powerful testimonies from HASL members about our latest campaign 📰 mylondon.news/news/south-lon…

Homeless families accuse council of 'intimidating' home visits

Lambeth Council is providing temporary accommodation for more than 4,600 homeless households each night

mylondon.news
2
5
208
Load more