National Housing Emergency Summit
Event Information
About this event
Will include round-table sessions on Fighting evictions, Grenfell and Safety, reclaiming Empty Homes, Stop the Developers' Charter, Rent strikes, and Building, 100,000 Council homes a year.
Homes for All links tenants and housing campaigners, trade unions and others to defend the homes and rights we have, and win the homes we all need. Attend our next meeting in London and discuss how we can help win the fight for housing justice in 2021.
Saturday 20th February, from 10.30am for Eventbrite registration on https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/national-housing-emergency-summit-tickets-130305145197?aff=erelexpmlt
Link to the Facebook event fb.me/e/4f8jEtfqq
Zoom link for opening plenary:
https://pcs.zoom.us/j/92857949440?pwd=NklIZXJLQWlYNTR2bTQvaWNPbXkvZz09&from=addon
Opening Plenary from 10:30am
Welcome and opening remarks from Eileen Short, Homes for All
Workshops from approx. 11.30am (you can attend one)
Workshop 1 Fair benefits and Universal Credit (with Ellen Clifford DPAC, Kelly Tomlinson Unite Community SE and Martin Cavanagh DWP chair, PCS union)
Chair: Ripon Ray
Workshop 2 Justice for Grenfell and safe homes for all (with Matt Wrack Fire Brigades Union, Nick Burton, Bereaved Survivor)
Chair: Moyra Samuels
Workshop 3 Housing Associations: Tenants and workers united (with Unite housing workers branch, Social Housing Action Group, Fuel Poverty Action)
Chair: Suz Muna
Workshop 4 Changing the planning system for good (Jerry Flynn, Southwark 35% campaign, Duncan Bowie University of Westminster, Prof Sue Brownill Oxford Brookes University)
Chair: Paul Burnham
Workshop 5 Filling the Empties (Tanya Murat, Southwark Defend Council Housing, Will McMahon Action on Empty Homes, Jon Glakin Streets Kitchen, Sam Burgum Author, Kate Ewart LCCH Cornwall, Candy Udwin former squatter Tolmers Square Camden, PCS NEC )
Chair: Julie Phipps
Workshop 6 Homelessness & Fighting Evictions (with Tom Zakaria, Labour Homelessness Campaign, Allison Fewtrell from Greater Manchester Tenants Union, and Ben Reeve-Lewis from Safer Renting)
Chair: Morag Gillie
Workshop 7 Building the Homes we Need (with Owen Hatherley author, Becky Winson New Economics Foundation, Ben Clay Greater Manchester Tenants Union, LCCH)
Chair: Carol Hayton
Workshop 8 Building Student Rent Strikes (with student rent strikers)
Chair: Izzy Smitheman
Feedback and Plan of Action, from 1pm
Closing Remarks, from approx. 1.30pm
With Bell Ribeiro-Addy MP, Matt Wrack (Fire Brigades Union), Professor Danny Dorling, Moyra Samuels (Grenfell campaigner)
Ends 2.15pm
Contact us on: info@axethehousingact.org.uk