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This session demands Universal Public Housing - homes free from profit, speculation, and ownership. In this discussion we’re going to confront the market capture of public housing and understand the grassroots struggles against demolitions and fights for better conditions.
This discussion will connect these fights to broader campaigns for re-municipalisation and expropriation and chart. pathways toward massive expansions in public housing.
is an organiser with Community Action Tenants Union (CATU) Ireland. Assisting in co-ordinating the union's national and Dublin based public housing campaigns.
Alva Gotby is an writer and tenant organiser at London Renters Union. She is the author of Feeling at Home: Transforming the Politics of Housing.
Thirza Asanga Rae works as a Community Organiser for the Greater Manchester Tenants Union and sits on the board of the Windrush Trust.
Paul Watt has published widely on social housing, urban regeneration, homelessness, housing activism and gentrification