** Join us for a session with Housing Action Southwark & Lambeth (HASL) who will be talking about their experience of organising and the housing emergency. **

In the last year, the housing emergency has spiralled to devastating new heights causing unimaginable suffering with children bearing the brunt of this. Use of cramped, hazardous hotel accommodation has soared to record breaking levels meaning families cannot eat hot and fresh food for weeks and months on end. Families are being forced out of London. And homeless families are facing being made homeless yet again with an increase in private landlords requesting their properties back. 

Meanwhile, overcrowding in social housing is at record levels with families trapped in 1 and 2 bed social homes unable to move into bigger homes. The housing emergency has reached terrifying levels we couldn’t imagine and we’re seeing problems that we’ve never encountered before which are further fuelling the homelessness crisis. 

Despite all of this, our members in HASL have been tirelessly supporting each other, campaigning and fighting together for the high-quality council homes we all need and deserve! 

Every day across south London (and sometimes beyond!) we are supporting people to understand and enforce their housing rights, we let people know that they are not alone, and we campaign for high-quality council homes for a life worth living. 

Without financial or political ties to anyone from above, we become stronger every time a new member adds collectively to our struggles from below, in order to raise awareness, share solutions and achieve small or bigger victories in a bleak reality.