{"id":35,"date":"2024-10-15T19:30:02","date_gmt":"2024-10-15T19:30:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cabh3.bobportfolio.uk\/?p=11"},"modified":"2025-03-18T16:53:19","modified_gmt":"2025-03-18T16:53:19","slug":"housing-assembly","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/collectiveactionbh.org.uk\/index.php\/2024\/10\/15\/housing-assembly\/","title":{"rendered":"Housing Assembly"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"wp-block-post-date\"><time datetime=\"2024-10-15T19:30:02+00:00\">October 15, 2024<\/time><\/div>\n\n\n<div style=\"height:20px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">B&amp;H Collective Action heard from tenants and activists about the issues they have faced and possible solutions. People facing eviction, having to live in emergency accommodation, and families being moved out of the city due to the lack of social housing, spoke movingly.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">The meeting heard from ACORN Community Union&#8217;s Poppy Burt about its work to defend tenants, and the housing lawyer Nick Bano, author of Against Landlords, who spoke about the history of landlordism in the UK and how to end the housing crisis by taking profit out of the rental sector.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-media-text has-background has-medium-font-size\" style=\"border-width:1px;background-color:#f8f8f8;margin-top:24px;margin-right:24px;margin-bottom:24px;margin-left:24px;grid-template-columns:15% auto\"><figure class=\"wp-block-media-text__media\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.acorntheunion.org.uk\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\" noreferrer noopener\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/collectiveactionbh.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/acorn-150x150.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-191 size-thumbnail\" srcset=\"https:\/\/collectiveactionbh.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/acorn-150x150.png 150w, https:\/\/collectiveactionbh.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/acorn.png 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/><\/a><\/figure><div class=\"wp-block-media-text__content\">\n<p class=\"has-text-align-left\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.acorntheunion.org.uk\/\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/www.acorntheunion.org.uk\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">ACORN Community Union<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-media-text is-vertically-aligned-center has-background has-medium-font-size\" style=\"border-width:1px;background-color:#f8f8f8;margin-top:24px;margin-right:24px;margin-bottom:24px;margin-left:24px;padding-top:0px;padding-right:0px;padding-bottom:0px;padding-left:0px;grid-template-columns:15% auto\"><figure class=\"wp-block-media-text__media\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.versobooks.com\/en-gb\/blogs\/authors\/bano-nick\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\" noreferrer noopener\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/collectiveactionbh.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/nick-bano-150x150.jpeg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-179 size-thumbnail\"\/><\/a><\/figure><div class=\"wp-block-media-text__content\">\n<p class=\"has-text-align-left has-medium-font-size\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.versobooks.com\/en-gb\/blogs\/authors\/bano-nick\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/www.versobooks.com\/en-gb\/blogs\/authors\/bano-nick\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Nick Bano at Verso<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.versobooks.com\/en-gb\/products\/2956-against-landlords\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/www.versobooks.com\/en-gb\/products\/2956-against-landlords\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Against Landlords: How to Solve the Housing Crisis<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image aligncenter size-large is-resized\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"724\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/collectiveactionbh.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/housing-assembly-724x1024.jpeg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-169\" style=\"width:411px;height:auto\" srcset=\"https:\/\/collectiveactionbh.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/housing-assembly-724x1024.jpeg 724w, https:\/\/collectiveactionbh.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/housing-assembly-212x300.jpeg 212w, https:\/\/collectiveactionbh.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/housing-assembly-768x1086.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/collectiveactionbh.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/housing-assembly-1086x1536.jpeg 1086w, https:\/\/collectiveactionbh.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/housing-assembly.jpeg 1131w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 724px) 100vw, 724px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image aligncenter size-large is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"724\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/collectiveactionbh.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/housing-crisis-724x1024.jpeg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-168\" style=\"width:419px;height:auto\" srcset=\"https:\/\/collectiveactionbh.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/housing-crisis-724x1024.jpeg 724w, https:\/\/collectiveactionbh.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/housing-crisis-212x300.jpeg 212w, https:\/\/collectiveactionbh.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/housing-crisis-768x1086.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/collectiveactionbh.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/housing-crisis-1086x1536.jpeg 1086w, https:\/\/collectiveactionbh.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/housing-crisis.jpeg 1131w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 724px) 100vw, 724px\" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Collective Action heard from tenants and activists about the issues they have faced and possible solutions. We also heard from ACORN&#8217;s Poppy Burt about its work to defend tenants, and the housing lawyer Nick Bano, author of Against Landlords.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":173,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,8],"tags":[24,33,15,18,17,13,14,16,19,22,21,20,23],"class_list":["post-35","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-action","category-assembly","tag-acorn-community-union","tag-against-landlords","tag-assembly","tag-brighton","tag-collective-action","tag-housing","tag-housing-crisis","tag-housing-emergency","tag-hove","tag-nick-bano","tag-peoples-assembly","tag-portslade","tag-verso-books"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/collectiveactionbh.org.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/collectiveactionbh.org.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/collectiveactionbh.org.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/collectiveactionbh.org.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/collectiveactionbh.org.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=35"}],"version-history":[{"count":33,"href":"https:\/\/collectiveactionbh.org.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":261,"href":"https:\/\/collectiveactionbh.org.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35\/revisions\/261"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/collectiveactionbh.org.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/173"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/collectiveactionbh.org.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/collectiveactionbh.org.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=35"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/collectiveactionbh.org.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=35"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}