The Green Party, Generation Rent and public sector unions are to stage a huge demo next month, demanding rent controls.
On April 18 – under three weeks from the local elections – the so-called ‘National Housing Demonstration” will be held in central London.
It is described by another one of the organisers, the London Renters Union (LRU), as “the largest coming-together of housing campaigners in a decade, thousands of tenants from across England and Wales are expected to take to the streets in protest of the government’s refusal to tackle runaway housing costs.”
The National Education Union (NEU), Public and Commercial Services Union (PCS), Fire Brigades Union (FBU) and others are joining forces with the Green Party, Generation Rent and tenants’ unions.
The Palestinian Youth Movement and Migrants Organise are two other groups named as supporting the demo.
A statement from the LRU accuses the current Labour government of ”making the housing crisis worse, putting developer profits before our communities.”
The demonstration has been called byThe Green Party, Generation Rent, London Renters Union (LRU), Greater Manchester Tenants Union (GMTU), Homes for All, Homes for Us, National Education Union (NEU), Public Commercial Services Union (PCS), Fire Brigades Union (FBU), Bakes, Food, and Allied Workers Union (BFAWU) Green Party of England and Wales, Social Housing Action Campaign (SHAC), Housing Action Southwark & Lambeth (HASL), Black Lives Matter UK, Peace & Justice Project, Generation Rent, Disability Rights UK, Disabled People Against Cuts (DPAC) New Economics Foundation (NEF) …
… Oxford Renters Union, SHAPE, Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament (CND), Palestinian Youth Movement (PYM), Bristol Fair Renting Campaign, Defend Council Housing, Food and Solidarity, London Tenants Federation, Action on Empty Homes, Harrow Law Centre, Harrow Healthy Homes, Black South West Network, Inclusion London, Medact, Fuel Poverty Action, Labour Campaign for Council Housing, Housing Action Teeside …
… Migrants Organise, Help Liverpool, Trans Action for Housing Justice, Just Space, Ealing Matters, Peckham Vision, Refurbish Don’t Demolish, Kensal Rise Campaign, Conversations over borders, Unite Community National Housing Group, Sheffield Tenants Union, Southwark Private Renters support project, Brent Trades Council, Lewisham People’s Assembly, Save Deptford Highstreet, Save Central Hill Community, Ladywell Unite, and Save Nour.
