Sadiq Enables Demolitions
The Mayor, Sadiq Khan, is instrumental in estate demolitions across London by approving big developments to go ahead and paying for the replacement of 'derelict' homes with our council and central govt taxes.  This allows councils, such as Lambeth, and housing associations alike leave perfectly decent properties empty to declare 'derelict', aka, managed decline.

Thousands of Days of Homes Left Unoccupied...
On Central Hill alone, around 70 homes have stood empty for many years, representing many thousands of days when someone on a waiting list could have had a warm, dry, secure home to stay in.

...Across London

But this is not happening on Central Hill alone.  It is replicated through the Aylesbury Estate, in Southwark, with 500 empty homes; hundreds in the Clapham Park Estate in Lambeth; to 200 in the Peabody-run, Lesnes Estate, near Abbey Wood Station and we know there are many 1000s more across London. 

These new developments build mainly market-rent or sale properties, which offer no solution to the housing crisis.

City Hall Camp Out to Demand Housing Rights

https://twitter.com/PhinHarper/status/1784738174868058154

We stand by protest led by Housing Rebellion and supported by SHAC, Homes for All, and others to call on the Mayor to take the housing crisis seriously.  We need more quality community-led, council-level rent homes and, in a time of an environmental crisis, this isn't solved by excessive 'Build, build, build' but to acquire by other means and to 'Fill, fill, fill' empty ones first. 

We ask that Rent Controls are brought in; to Retrofit social and council housing in scale, which over time will pay for itself, and we demand an end to estate demolitions.

Greens, The Only Party to Be Tackling the Housing Crisis
The Green Party is the only party to promise to tackle the housing crisis head on, without demolishing or building just more commodities instead of housing.  In Knight's Hill and Stratham Common and Vale, there will also be by-elections on 2nd May, where Torla Evans and Duncan Eastoe will be standing respectively.

Knights Hill By-Election
The Knights Hill by-election has been called as the previous councillor, Sonia Winifred, chose to step down after the horrible treatment she received at the hands of the local Labour hierarchy after simply voting with the Greens for a ceasefire to the attacks happening in Gaza.  This was enough to incite the wrath of the Labour management, who subsequently suspended her.  We stand by her and any community facing the challenges of an oppressive occupation.   And so does Torla, who has campaigned for years for the rights of the Palestinian people and supported Save Central Hill in  preserving its homes on the estate for years.  She also volunteers for the Food Bank and Open Orchard in West Norwood so a great person to vote for!