SHAC and Partners UK Housing Awards Protest Thursday 25th Nov

The social housing sector is holding the UK Housing Awards ceremony at a hotel next to the O2 Arena on Thursday 25th November. They will congratulate themselves on the great job they have done over the last year.

The awards will be given to councils and housing associations, and in some cases to the private companies they work with.

Instead of plaudits, these organisations should hang their heads in shame over their collective failures to provide safe, secure, genuinely affordable homes.

Seats at the event will start at over £345, but prices rise to over £4,495 at the top end for the most exclusive tables. Obscene spending, given the housing conditions of their tenants and residents.

SHAC Secretary Suzanne Muna explained the reasons for the protest:

“Housing associations have a combined surplus of more than £4.4 billion, and assets of £174.4bn. Yet across the last decade, all manifestations of the housing crisis have intensified - homelessness, overcrowding, lack of genuinely affordable housing supply, and unsafe homes, to mention just a few.

“Our members experience daily the sharp end of this crisis, and know first hand how badly broken the housing model is in Britain. This protest is to demonstrate that they are not prepared to be sidelined any longer.”

 

Protestors will assemble from 5pm outside North Greenwich tube station and will have installations and speeches which people can enjoy for free.