Housing campaigners traveled to Coventry on Saturday 10 February to leaflet and lobby the Labour Party local government conference and to encourage Councillors to support the 5 Point Plan for council housing. The broad-based action was supported by SHAC, Homes for Us (NEF) and others.

Whilst we were met with a generally positive response to the campaign with Councillors wanting to see housing prioritised for their constituents – concerns were raised around the Labour leadership’s failure to announce any strategy to tackle the housing crisis.

What is clear though, is that campaigners are committed to building from this action and ensuring that housing is pushed up the political agenda in the forthcoming general election. We know that the past 14 years has resulted in an acute housing crisis which is unsustainable and requires a radical change in housing policy. We need to keep on building a united housing movement and fight for decent, safe and secure housing for all.