Our next organising meetings are on:

Tuesday 31st January 2017, 6.30 PM at:

Hamilton House, Mabledon Place, London WC1H 9BD

AND:

Saturday 18th February 2017, 11 AM at:

Unite Offices, 128 Theobalds Road, London WC1X 8TN

All welcome.

Axe The Housing Act and Unite Housing Workers Branch have organised a meeting open to all housing association residents and workers to develop a network for greater campaigning strength.

As with public services, to defeat the Housing and Planning Act and the austerity agenda, workers and service users must come together united in a common cause.

The meeting will discuss how to:

• Defeat the remaining parts of the Act
• End ‘social cleansing’
• End the cuts to repairs and maintenance services
• Demand decent pay, conditions and training for housing workers

Meeting to be held on Monday January 30th, 6.30pm at:

Diskus Centre, Unite HQ, 128 Theobalds Road, London WC1X 8TN

Workers, residents and service users from across a range of housing associations will meet together and plan to fight together for better pay, terms and conditions, and services in social housing. Open to all who work for a housing association, their residents and service users.

www.housingworkers.org.uk

Welcome to a busy new year already in the campaign for homes.



The Housing Act is still stalled, with no move yet to pass the necessary regulations needed.  Government have dropped the threatened Pay to Stay tenant tax, and postponed further Right to buy and sell off of council homes for at least a year.

But the Act remains a threat, until we get it all scrapped.

Ministers still want to end secure tenancies, and replace homes for rent with un-affordable mortgages.   A new Housing white paper is on the way, so now is the time to demand policies to control rents and secure homes for all.



Come to our open organising meeting this Saturday 14 Jan 11.am at:

Unite Offices, 128 Theobalds Rd London WC1X 8TN.

We’ll catch up with plans, and welcome new ideas.  All invited – email any reports or suggestions if you can’t make it.

Please sign and circulate our open letter to Sadiq Khan, Mayor of London, imploring him to oppose the Housing and Planning Act and support our campaign for controlled rents and secure homes for all:

https://www.axethehousingact.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2016/07/AtHA_letter_LondonMayor_Jan2017_A4_2pp_web.pdf

Join us at a very special screening hosted by Axe The Housing Act and others of  Ken Loachs’ Palme d’Or winning film ‘I, Daniel Blake’
With a Q&A and discussion with the film makers and activists.

THURSDAY 02 FEBRUARY 6.30pm at
Genesis Cinema 93-95 Mile End Rd, London E1 4UJ.

Tickets £4.50 book at box office 020 7780 2000 OR here online:

https://genesiscinema.co.uk/GenesisCinema.dll/WhatsOn?Film=5248572

We look forward to seeing you there.

Thanks for a great local response to our stall in Croydon last weekend – Axe The Housing Act will continue to build pressure on Housing Minister Gavin Barwell to axe this act once and for all.