Halloween land squat, Birmingham — housing crisis

POSSIBLE DEVELOPMENT OF GREEN FIELD SITES FOR HOUSING

The issue of a lack of good qual­i­ty, well main­tained homes for social rent has long been an issue in Birm­ing­ham

Poor qual­i­ty and bad­ly main­tained rent­ed homes cause a vari­ety of prob­lems for their occu­pants includ­ing poor health.

Dur­ing cold­er months the issue of insu­la­tion is a major prob­lem with those on low wages or ben­e­fits not being able to heat their home prop­er­ly. AND IT IS YET ANOTHER SOURCE OF CLIMATE CHANGE caused by a lack of insu­la­tion

On Sep­tem­ber 1st 2008 JUSTICE NOT CRISIS action group scaled the Town Hall in Birm­ing­ham to protest at the coun­cil’s social hous­ing pol­i­cy.

On Thurs­day 30th Octo­ber JUSTICE NOT CRISIS are squat­ting a piece of vacant coun­cil hous­ing land and set­ting up the JOHN LINES HOMELESS VILLAGE. We intend to cel­e­brate Hal­loween on the Fri­day and stay for as long as pos­si­ble.

For full up to date info please vis­it the web site at www.justicenotcrisis.wordpress.com
email us at justice.not.crisis@googlemail.com

We are cam­paign­ing for:

1. That the coun­cil release some of their hous­ing land to hous­ing asso­ci­a­tions so that they can use £100m worth of gov­ern­ment grants to build 2,000 new homes for social rent.
2. We oppose the build­ing of 1,000s of new homes on green field sites in and around Birm­ing­ham as part of the coun­cils aspi­ra­tion to build up to 60,000 new homes.
3. We want to see the coun­cil improve their homes to a much bet­ter stan­dard than the laugh­able “decent homes stan­dard”.