THE HOUSING BILL, A PUBLIC MEETING - TUESDAY 9th FEBRUARY at 7pm, Islington Town Hall

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TUESDAY 9th FEBRUARY 2016

7pm at Islington Town Hall, Upper Street, N1 2UD

Speakers: Councillor James Murray (Cabinet Member for Housing for Islington), plus local tenants, campaigners and trade unionists. (MPs and London Mayoral candidates are invited) (City of London residents are encouraged to attend)

For more details about the Housing and Planning Bill go to www.defendcouncilhousing.org.uk/dch

The Housing and Planning Bill, currently before Parliament (now being looked at by the House of Lords), will force councils to sell-off existing council homes with no guarantee of replacement. Scrap secure tenancies and introduce ‘Pay to Stay’ means testing.The bill will also: 

• Push up rents and waiting lists.
• Divert public funds and land to private developers and away from affordable homes for rent.
• Fail to improve security or control rents for private renters.
• Attack the housing rights of travellers.
• Threaten the future of housing co-ops and tenant management organisations.
• Reduce secure housing options for people fleeing domestic violence, people with disabilities and other vulnerable groups
• Undermine mixed, stable communities.

Come to the meeting at Islington Town Hall to find out more about how the Housing Bill could affect you and our community and to get involved in the campaign.

Council and housing association tenants with household income above £40,000 could see their rents
triple. .

The Housing Bill will do nothing to improve the housing crisis. It will make it worse.

Scrapping secure tenancies will damage our communities and push more people into substandard
private renting. 

The campaign demands:

• Direct investment in council and social housing as part of a national house building programme.
• Secure tenancies for all, including private renters.
• Housing for need, not greed.
• Rent controls.

A national campaign involving tenant groups from all tenures, trade unions, housing campaigners, MPs and councillors has been launched to ‘Kill the Bill’. For more details about the Housing and Planning Bill go to www.defendcouncilhousing.org.uk/dch/KILLTHEHOUSINGBILL

If you can't make the meeting in February, please write to your local MP with your thoughts on this issue. 

A national demonstration against the Housing Bill will take place on 12th March in central London, details to follow.