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June 2016

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Axe the Housing Act March

Piccadilly, London. Sat 18 June 2016

  
 
 Our West Hendon banner ' Homes Before Profits'

 Tanya Murat of Southwark Defend Council Housing introduces the speakers before the march

 Rev Paul Nicholson of Taxpayers Against Poverty

 

 Fenwick Estate in Clapham North, targeted by Lambeth COuncil with their banner 'Hands Off Our Homes - No to the Housing Act'
      
 John Reid RMT National Executive member speaks

 

 Walthamstow housing activist Nancy Taafe speaks about the Butterfields Estate where the fight continues,

  inspiring others with 'Butterfields Won't Budge!'
 
 

Southwark leaseholder David Iles, a 'Bermondsey Boy' talks about how the Council is tryng to shaft leaseholders 

'Homes for all - People Not Profit - Defy the Housing Act' 

A woman holds a poster 'Market Value for Aylesbury Estate Southwark Council' as David Iles speaks.
Leaseholders are being offered at least £100,000 less than similar property in the area sells for. 

Southwark Councillor Richard Livingstone, Cabinet Member for Adult Care and Financial Inclusion
and formerly responsible for housing the borough 

gets shouted down by housing campaigners 

Some try to stop the shouting, saying we all have to work together against the Housing Act, but Southwark is 

pursuing policies which have similar consequences to the Act - selling off council houses and building properties 

almost entirely for market rents, resulting in social cleansing. Their opposition to the Act is probably because 

they think it may cut their profits from selling off council housing - not to provide the social housing that is needed. 

Morag from Islington Axe The Housing Act 

Suzanne Muna, a Unite housing worker 

 
   

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