come and join the Focus E15 Mothers and share your story
raising awareness and  building the campaign- weekly stall every saturday outside Wilkinson in Stratford, 12-2pm - street stall, petitioning, leafleting & open mic. COME DOWN...


come to this:  
Saturday 19 April - Focus on the Future - event of food, fun and football outside Focus E15 from 2.30pm. come down!



THE BIGGER WE GROW THE LOUDER WE BECOME

Focus E15 is a hostel in Stratford that provides a home for over 200 young people who need it. Newham council cut funding for the hostel and  Young mothers from the Focus E15 mothers and baby were served with eviction notices and told that they would be rehoused in places outsde of london such as Stoke on Trent, Birmingham and Manchester. These mothers  have been fighting to stay in their community, near family and support networks in East London. And its one hell of a fight. Newham council and Newham mayor - Sir Robin Wales (Labour, suprisingly) consistantly ignore and deflect or in Wales' case outright reject these women's claim to stay in their borough. Over ten of the mothers have won the fight to be housed in the burough, but this victory is bitter sweet - they are housed in private accomodation, usually run by slum landlords and the conditions are appauling. the young women have plenty of stories of mice, rats, coackroaches, damp, vermin, and no inclination from their landlord to anything about it. These are also very temporary contracts - they have no idea or power over how long they may get to stay in one place before they are made homeless again- the contracts are maximum of a year. these are no conditions to live let alone bring up children. The campaign is wider than these parents and this hostel, the campaign is aimed at everyone who is facing the threat of repossession and eviction and homelessness. the message is : 
WE must STAND TOGETHER, raise awareness & FIGHT what is happening. 




please sign and share the PETITION
https://www.change.org/en-GB/petitions/newham-council-and-east-thames-housing-association-no-eviction-from-focus-e15-suitable-permanent-social-housing-in-london-not-in-the-private-rented-sector-and-all-discussions-and-negotiations-to-be-held-with-all-the-affected-mothers-present


watch a video here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JO7mSrW4ifQ

 Three Concrete Houses NEW£20.00AVAILABILITY: In stockH-3CONHSE This set of three concrete houses are a great little ornament for anywhere in the house, and being cast in concrete makes them so on trend.H 9 x W 6 x D 6 cm

my mum found this in a catalogue.  I think this is quite an amazing microcosm of gentrification. artists and creative workers take up place in an impoverished or neglected area,  the designers soon follow and then the developers and then it dies.  the residents are priced out of the area and the concrete home - the social housing - is now the sort after property of the bourgoisee.  3 concrete ornimental houses for 20 pounds (plus delivery? seeing as how its a catalogue)




http://www.coxandcox.co.uk/three-concrete-houses