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Eviction resistance in Bristol

billy | 12.11.2008 17:49 | 2008 Days Of Action For Autonomous Spaces | Free Spaces | Social Struggles


Dear Neighbours

At 10.am this morning (12/11/08) police and bailiffs smashed their way into 87 Ashley Road evicting some of the occupants. Several people are on the roof, while contractors and bailiffs rip up the inside to make the house uninhabitable.

We are resisting this eviction because…

1.We need somewhere to live.
2.Taking your housing needs into your own hands is a positive thing, especially when social housing has such long waiting lists.
3.This building has been left empty for at least 4 years, during this time both Places for People (P4P) and Bristol Churches (previous owners) have made no attempt to renovate or convert it into social housing. That’s 8 potential flats that have been left to rot. And for the past 6 months no.87 has housed more than 30 people.
4.P4P have no planning permission to use or renovate this building. This morning a P4P representative said that the only active planning application they have is for April 2009, where 87 will contain a ‘site office’ for the ‘development’ of 16 other ‘shared ownership’ properties in the St. Pauls Area.
5.St. Pauls UnLtd have opposed P4P’s plans because they did not provide enough social housing or affordable housing.
6.Existing P4P tenants complain about the standard of service of maintenance in their existing properties.
7.Everyone has a right to a home: Squatting is legal, necessary, and provides an alternative to the stranglehold of debt that underpins the current financial crisis.
8.Tying people into 30+years of mortgage debt is an illusion of housing security, in the light recent repossessions.
9.We are part of this community and against all privatizations, repossessions and evictions.

P4P are more concerned with money than housing those in need they are the biggest UK housing association and have the highest paid chief executives in the housing sector (Director salary: £258k in 2007). Housing associations were set up to fill the gap left by Thatcher’s destruction of social housing provision. They cannot legally make profits, but make up for this with fat bonus checks for the fat cats. That’s taxpayer’s money going to fund extravagant lifestyles


‘Direct action is better than any waiting list’ Squatters handbook. (Or mortgage!)

billy

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