Changing Communities: Stories of Migration, Displacement and Solidarities by Marjorie Mayo

Author:Marjorie Mayo [Mayo, Marjorie]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781447329350
Google: jznitwEACAAJ
Publisher: Policy Press
Published: 2017-01-15T07:00:21+00:00

Community resistance campaigns

Tenants and residents were also organising their own campaigns of resistance, as the previous chapter has already illustrated. ‘Social housing, not social cleansing’ was the banner slogan for New Era tenants in Hoxton, East London, for example, campaigning to keep rents at an affordable level for existing tenants in the 93 homes on the estate. As their petition explained, ‘Our estate, the New Era Estate in Hoxton, has a long history of providing affordable housing and has been home to some people for 70 years. It is home to families who have built their lives in this area’ (see www.change.org/p/new-era-should-not-become-the-end-of-an-era). ‘But the property firm Westbrook Partners have recently bought the estate’, the petition continued,

… and are planning a massive rent hike that will treble what we pay now. We’re calling on the firm to ensure long-term affordable rent so that our families aren’t forced to be made homeless…. The cost of the forces of change has been paid by individuals and families, who are being forced from the area they were born and grew up in. The approach of profit over people is devastating lives and shredding long standing communities, to such an extent that the Mayor of Hackney, Jules Pipe, has said that the treatment of tenants is unfair and that the proposed rent increases are “tearing the heart out of Hoxton”.

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