Build your policy and research skills!
Join our series of zoom calls to learn more about the latest policy debates in housing and how to carry out your own research
*The next session will be on Housing and Disabled people on the 26 March 3 – 4pm.*
We’ll be joined by speakers from Inclusion London to help you get a better understanding of the barriers to accessible housing deaf and disabled Londoners face, and how the housing movement can work with the disability rights movement.
Register for the next session here.
Who are these sessions for?
These sessions are for members of the Homes for Us alliance. If you’re a member of an alliance partner please come along. There is no limit on the number of attendees.
Upcoming sessions
Date/time | Session focus | Aim |
19th March | Why the housing crisis is a land crisis | · Shared learning on why we need to analyse land as foundational to the housing crisis · Develop understanding of why housing activists need to scrutinize planning reforms · Strengthen our messaging around land politics and policies |
26th March | Guest session: Housing and disabled people: London’s housing emergency and how to tackle it – by Svetlana Kotova, director of campaigns and justice, Inclusion London, and Laura Vicinanza, policy and stakeholder engagement manager, Inclusion London. | Enable housing activists and organisations within the housing movement to gain a better understanding of: · the barriers to accessible and affordable housing deaf and disabled Londoners experience on a daily basis and the negative impact these have on their lives · why we are not building the homes deaf and disabled Londoners need · what decision-makers can do to remove housing barriers disabled people face · how the housing movement can support and work with the Disability Rights Movement to fight for accessible, secure and affordable homes |
16th April |
Guest session: Researching housing associations as real estate actors – Dr Rich Goulding, Lecturer at University of Sheffield | · Demystifying the role of housing association in the housing crisis · Practical research tools for activists on how to analyse their financial strategies, including an overview of how to look through their accounts |
23rd April |
Guest session: Building Safety and Grenfell – by Peter Apps, housing journalist and author of Show me the bodies: how we let Grenfell happen’. | · Outline how government policy and corporate malpractice gave us the Grenfell disaster and the building safety crisis which has emerged since. · Discuss Labour’s announcement of its response to the recommendations from Phase 2 of the inquiry and explain how housing activists can help those in dangerous buildings |
30th April | Local elections – what do they mean for us? | · Identifying powers local authorities have to help solve housing crisis · Reflecting on manifestos · Locating our local/regional actions in the political context |