About this event
- What is happening to Brent’s housing supply?
- Why are all the new housing developments making the housing crisis worse not better?
- What can be done about it?
- High-rise blocks keep going up but so do the numbers of homeless families
- What is happening to Brent’s housing supply?
- Why are all the new housing developments making the housing crisis worse not better?
- What can be done about it?
Housing development in London is driven by frantic corporate and wealth investment activity.
In Brent, new high-rise blocks have been springing up but these are overwhelmingly private and often contain empty and under occupied flats.
Meanwhile, one in three Brent households live in expensive and often poor quality private rented housing, and more than 2,000 homeless families are stuck in temporary accommodation with no control over their future.
Why is it so hard for people to access Council homes which are decent, affordable and secure, a firm base to bring up families, work or study and realise aspirations in life?
Brent residents are among those who’ve been hardest hit by the pandemic. Now it’s time to put some meaning behind the phrase BUILD BACK BETTER by looking at the radical changes needed to ensure that everyone can access a decent home that they can afford.
FAIRER HOUSING – Partners for Change is working with ACTION ON EMPTY HOMES to bring about those changes. We want to see more resources for local Councils to build rented homes; we want private developers to build the right kind of homes; and we want empty homes to be put to good use.
- Chair: Sahra Jama, Stream Skills Advancement
- Speakers: Nimo Askar, L'Oreal Williams, Brent Residents
- Councillor Margaret McLennan, Deputy Leader, Brent
- Will McMahon, Director, Action of Empty Homes
- Jacky Peacock, Advice for Renters
