Month: October 2011

We’ve made some links available to organisations who contributed to our infonight about housing in Hackney. If you are having problems with insecure or substandard housing or are facing eviction, we hope you will find some information here that will help you. Also, please let us know if you are involved in a campaign group […]

Out of the squats and into the streets The Government wants to sneak through the criminalisation of squatting, it will be voted on in Parliament this Tuesday 1stNovember. Over 95% of responses to the ‘consultation’ on squatting were against further criminalisation, despite this the government is still going ahead with their proposals – effectively bypassing democracy. SQUASH have tried […]

Our first HAG newsletter, check it out or see the pdf here    

Housing is one of the biggest problems that many people are facing at the moment, in Hackney and the rest of the country: council housing under constant attack, less and less affordable decent houses, extortionate rents, home repossessions, evictions… Whether we are tenants facing increasing rent, mortgage buyers hit by the crisis, homeless in hostels, in squats or […]