Award giving for greedy estate agent CJA in Bristol

Award giv­ing in recog­ni­tion of ser­vices to land­lords and their rights. We proud­ly pre­sent­ed bricks through win­dows of CJA estate agents in Southville on the night of 31st August. All win­dows smashed and the inter­na­tion­al squat­ter sym­bol paint­ed on their wall. Because despite the ban on squat­ting hous­es every­one should have a decent home.
CJA have showed real resilience and sin­gle mind­ed­ness to make a stand for max­i­mum prof­it regard­less of the tough con­di­tions faced by ten­ants every­where. In a let­ter to Bris­tol land­lords in March this year they encour­aged land­lords to hike their rents and cyn­i­cal­ly take advan­tage of the hous­ing cri­sis. Because the cri­sis is for land­lords and prop­er­ty devel­op­ers anoth­er busi­ness oppor­tu­ni­ty. They then arro­gant­ly ignored a cam­paign by a local com­mu­ni­ty union to hold them to account. So we found anoth­er way to encour­age them to see the costs of their actions. Thou­sands of us are trapped in over­crowd­ed, over priced and chron­i­cal­ly under­main­tained and decay­ing rent­ed hous­es. We con­stant­ly strug­gle to pay the rent under the ever present threat of evic­tion and home­less­ness. Gen­tri­fi­ca­tion and coloni­sa­tion of our areas push­es rents ever high­er and forces us fur­ther out. This is social cleans­ing and it is a very prof­itable busi­ness. For greedy land­lords and estate agents like CJA, decent, afford­able homes don’t come into their sums. It’s all about invest­ment oppor­tu­ni­ties and ruth­less prof­i­teer­ing. Mean­while, there is a huge increase in home­less­ness and the hos­tels are full to burst­ing. We don’t have to take this. Let’s fight for a world with­out land­lords, where peo­ple’s homes are not for the prof­it of the rich.