The Homes for All Housing and Planning Bloc on the Peoples Assembly demo against austerity was a real pleasure to support.

Homes for All, supported by Defend Council Housing, SHAPE, SHAC and many others had fantastic Housing and Planning Bloc, and we even got to speak on the platform to promote the movement’s demands for council housing and a challenge to the rule of developers. We called for a revolution in housing and planning.
High energy all the way!
More than 60 housing and planning campaigners joined us. We brought the noise all the way from Portland Place to Whitehall.

More pics here INSTA

We have a Housing and Planning bloc on the People’s Assembly demo, 7 June.

We are seeking support both from housing campaigns, and planning campaigns. We know the housing emergency will not be solved without a massive overhaul in planning policy. Without doubt the national and local planning regime has turned into a developers’ charter, putting ‘viability’ (read ‘developer profit’) at the centre, and reducing the role of council housing to a bit part. This has to change if we are to get the homes people desperately need.

Of course the only solution to the housing emergency is for the government to build or acquire council housing on a mass scale, and that requires proper funding. We want anyone who agrees with us to join us on 7 June!

• Are you a planner?
• Are you a housing officer?
• Are you active in the planning world?
• Are you part of the housing movement?

The Homes 4 All Housing and planning bloc is for you! Get in touch if you want to help build it! If you want your logo on the graphic, please email Homes for All.