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If you're connected to Barking & Dagenham, join us on 19 March!
@BeFirstLondon @lbbdcouncil have identified 4 sites they'd like to see as #communityledhousing. We're inviting groups and future residents to help shape the kinds of homes that could be built.
communityledhousing.london/b… – at Barking, London
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✨✨A reminder that the deadline for applications is 18th February. We look forward to receiving them! ✨✨
🚨We’re recruiting our first two members of staff! A General Manager and a Communities and Communications Manager (Spanish speaking).🚨
Please find more info under the link below. Deadline to apply is midnight Sunday 18th February.
wardscorner.org/jobs-opportu…
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Demolition and sale of social homes outstripped completion by nearly three times in 2022-23 dlvr.it/T2WN6k #ukhousing
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The private rental sector runs on PUBLIC money.
£70bn straight into landlords' pockets for poor-quality and insecure accommodation.
Imagine if that £70bn went into public housing.
The housing crisis is a political choice.
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Published today -
our tenth Radical Housing Journal issue!
ISSUE 6.1 Housing as a battlefield
edited by @uz_bu_na @AlejandraReyesC @aysegulcan87 @camilacocina Felicia Berryessa-Erich, @femimeli @mglamarca & Solange Muñoz
radicalhousingjournal.org/is…
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Seriously worrying precendent here. 'Decant' residents from social housing blocks for urgent repair work, then change course and sell the blocks to the private sector.
City council defends decision to sell tower block after decanting residents for refurbishment work dlvr.it/T1j0NM #ukhousing
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BrewDog's owner James Watt is worth £262,000,000 - but won't pay his staff properly.
What could be more punk than that?
A direct challenge to the idea that regeneration and the planning system are games to be played, enabled by those in power and where the losers are always decided from the outset. Well done to all involved 1/4
BREAKING: Victory in the High Court: "This judgement should serve as a warning to developers"👇
pilc.org.uk/news/victory-in-…
3/4 obviously ‘the game’ is still heavily weighted against those most affected and there is a long way to go toward achieving genuine power sharing and democratic control (some interesting cases out there),
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We are increasingly seeing people like this 👇 use housing to stir up hate.
But migrants are among those MOST EXPLOITED by London's extortionate and unsafe private rental system. Most social renters are born in the UK.
We need more public housing available for EVERYONE.
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THOUSANDS OF PEOPLE JOINED US TODAY TO SAY “NO CHRISTMAS AS USUAL” IN A GENOCIDE.
SHOPPERS JOINED US & CALLED FOR A CEASEFIRE.
NO ARRESTS WERE MADE.
FREE PALESTINE.
BOYCOTT ISRAEL.
GET HOME SAFE ALL ❤️🇵🇸
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Exciting Opportunity in Johannesburg: Join our Change by Design workshop – Housing Justice in the Inner-City, April 2024! Applications are OPEN for this e workshop in Johannesburg, South Africa. Work with us and grassroots partners in the inner city.
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Novara Media is reporting from Mission Systems Wimborne Ltd in Dorset, one of four arms factories shut down by 1,000 activists today under the banner of @Workers4Pal.
Stay tuned for video updates here and on Novara Live from 6pm today.
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BREAKING: Over 1000 trade unionists at multiple sites across Britain are blockading arms factories that are supplying arms to Israel! 🇵🇸
#ShutItDown4Palestine
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Your regular reminder that 81% of new social housing lettings go to white British tenants and 90% go to UK nationals. At a dangerous political moment, please don't let the right establish one of their favourite narratives (lies): that immigrants get all the council housing.
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That would be Terrapin, which represented Lendlease during the time it 'regenerated' the Heygate Estate in Southwark - replacing 1,200 social rented homes with just 100. And Peter John, who was leader of Southwark Council at the time of the regen and is now Terrapin's chair.
Brilliant evening, huge thanks to @AndrewHWestern @peterjohn6 @promise_knight @AbdiDuale_ & @FionaMColley for speaking and Terrapin Group for sponsoring - next step Manchester
This feels positive. Now all we need is the ability for councils to purchase at less than market value. Wonder if that’s still a @UKLabour policy or been abandoned with the rest of them
Today @MayorofLondon is launching the Council Homes Acquisitions Programme (CHAP) with a target to bring 10k homes into council ownership over 10 years.
This follows the success of his Right to Buy Back scheme which helped councils buy nearly 1,300 homes. london.gov.uk/mayor-launches…