Campaign Against Empty Homes Coalition Day of Action Saturday 22 October

The Campaign Against Empty Homes Coalition will be protesting against the waste of all empty homes on Saturday October 22nd 2022 and wants you to take action in your area.

For details of how to get involved visit the CAEH website here: www.campaignagainstemptyhomes.org

Click here to watch a recording of the Speakers and Livestream on Youtube

Production of this broadcast iwa in collaboration with the Open Protest Network - a grassroots media network that platforms protestors and activists around the world. Every organisation involved with OPN retains full creative and editorial control over what gets published. By bridging existing grassroots organisations into a global and powerful platform, we can challenge those who seek to promote injustice and inequality globally. https://linktr.ee/openprotestnetwork

The national online rally was streamed Live on YouTube

- a recording is available here

Speakers will include:

Rachel Maskell, Labour MP for York Central

John Bird, founder of The Big Issue

Ellie Chowns, Green Party Housing spokesperson.

You can join the rally live on the Action on Empty Homes Youtube channel.

With 100,000 homeless families in insecure and often overcrowded Temporary Accommodation and 1.2million on the social housing waiting list our housing crisis isn't going to be solved by current housing policy. We need all empty homes to be brought back into use whether they are on council estates or second homes and short-lets across the country, or new properties built for investors to buy to leave empty.

From city centres to coastal resorts and the countryside, we desperately need homes to meet local housing needs, not investment opportunities for Airbnb landlords and so-called 'second home' owners all of which are driving up rents and making many places totally unaffordable for working people to live in.

View the leaflet below or download it here - for hard copies email [email protected] - donations to offset postage and production costs are helpful and can be made here

We need housing for local needs and not developer profits.

Booking for this event has now closed.

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