4th December 2014
Lewisham protest planned
as anger mounts over social housing crisis
"Social Housing, Not
Social Cleansing” demonstration at Lewisham Council offices on 4 December 2014.
Lewisham Housing Action Group, a
growing band of concerned local groups and individuals, is planning a joint
action to protest at the lack of social housing in the London Borough of
Lewisham.
The group plan to congregate at 12noon
on Thursday 4 December outside the council offices at Lawrence House (1
Catford Road, SE6 4RU), carrying banners and calling on Cabinet Member for
Housing Damian Egan or Mayor Steve Bullock to come and meet them face-to-face
and hear their demands.
Organised by Lewisham Homeless
People’s Union, the peaceful protest aims to highlight the increasing number of
people living in insecure, temporary and emergency accommodation in the borough
– a housing crisis that is mirrored in boroughs across London, where similar
protests are gathering momentum.
Because of the lack of council
housing, 500 families will spend Christmas in a B&B in Lewisham.
Some are not even lucky enough to
get inside a B&B: a recent street count found 13 people bedded down on
the streets of Lewisham on just one night.
Jaime Mills, Lewisham Homeless
People’s Union, said: “xxx”
John
Hamilton, People Before Profit, said: “One of the scandals is that all
these new tower blocks going up in Lewisham are unaffordable for local people.
The priority should be building council houses for rent rather than creating an
expensive ghetto for docklands workers renting from foreign landlords. Until
all Lewisham's existing homeless families are housed with secure tenancies we
will oppose buy-to-let unaffordable projects.”
NOTES FOR EDITORS
Lewisham Homeless Persons
Union (LHPU) is a community of people who are homeless, have been homeless or
is affected by homelessness.
Lewisham People Before
Profit is a local political party, which operates under the slogan
‘Public Need Not Private Greed’. Housing is one of its key concerns. It's
direct action in 2012 stopped the sell-off of any further Council homes.
Contact housing@LPBP.org.uk
Click on the Drop box to see the film of Thursdays action
Click on the Drop box to see the film of Thursdays action
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#Lewisham #homless protest.
Video here, @PeopleB_4Profit
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