Fw: Unite to stop attacks on council housing

[david bangs]

            Stop privatisation; improve existing and build a new generation of first class council housing   
            Unite to stop attacks on council housing  
     
                  Councils will be a focus for united opposition to fixed term tenancies, un'Affordable' (up to 80% market) rents and evictions due to Housing Benefit cuts. Each council landlord has to agree a Tenancy Strategy by next January. A Shelter report sets out useful arguments and questions - see here .Council housing is a much-needed alternative to the failing private housing market. With 4.5 million people on housing waiting lists and homelessness soaring, with millions more trapped in insecure and inadequate housing, what we need is investment in a new generation of first class public, affordable, secure and accountable council housing.What you can do
                  Organise local campaign meetings with tenants, trade unions, politicians and housing campaigners - contact DCH for help and speakers, leaflets
                  Join us at the TUC and party conferences, and other events (see dates below) and at the massive TUC march on 20 October in London, A Future that Works
                  Email to order copies of the new DCH newspaper out in September (£20 for 100/£120 for 1,000) or new Right to Buy - Warning and other posters (10 for £1/100 for £7).Dates and events
                  DCH at TUC Brighton 9-10 September - email if you can be there
                  London activists meeting - Housing for the 99% 7pm Camden Town Hall WC1H 9JE
                  ARCH (Assoc of Retained Council Housing) Tenants' conference Kettering Conference Centre 19 September see details here
                  Labour conference Manchester from 30 Sept, with DCH fringe meeting Friend Meeting House 6pm Tue 2nd October 
                  Note 
                  Council and other landlords must consult on use of new tenancies and rents before Jan 2012, following the Localism Act 2011.
                  May-July 2012 saw another 42% fall in new council and Private Registered Provider (PRP or housing association) homes, compared to the same period last year - see figures here and here 
                  See the latest Housing Emergency Briefing here


                 
           
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            For background information on the demand for investment in council housing and who supports the campaign see www.defendcouncilhousing.org.uk 

           
        
                   Protest Leaflet 15th Nov 
                   Election Briefing April 2012 

                   Statement from Housing Emergency tenants conference 

                   DCH Newspaper Sep 2011 

                   Council Housing: Time To Invest 

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