How Will You #PUSHBACK?
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HE CAMPAIGN AND EXHIBITION, which is part Your City HOUSING RUNNING CRIPPLING of this year’s Brighton Fringe Festival, was Your say… IS A HUMAN FLAT OUT TO PAY MONTHLY Join BHCLT today RIGHT YOUR RENT? PAYMENT? inspired by the award-winning documentary #PUSHBACKBRIGHTON #PUSHBACKBRIGHTON #PUSHBACKBRIGHTON #PUSHBACKBRIGHTON film, PUSH. The film follows Leilani Farha, the TUN’s special rapporteur on adequate housing, as she Site 21a travels the world investigating why ordinary people C can’t afford to live in cities anymore. O END L D One of the key players in this worrying trend is E A Blackstone, a global financer buying up affordable N housing around the world. What is even more shocking L A N E is that Blackstone already own some of the more 3: COLDEAN Walking time: 25 mins unaffordable student housing in Brighton, after buying Distance: 1.2 miles – mostly flat iQ student housing firm in the UK’s largest ever private with steeper off road footpath up START property deal recently. to Site 21a Follow the trails to hunt the boards and find out more Start: Middleton Rise End: Site 21a (behind Varley Halls) about how initiatives like community led housing can WITHDEAN PARK Visit coldeancommunity.org help us all #PUSHBACK against local land grabs and or use the QR code on right to unaffordable and unsustainable development. As find out about their trail. communities and individuals deal with the ongoing Covid-19 pandemic, the need for secure and affordable housing is more important than ever. As BHCLT’s ‘Housing and Lockdown’ survey showed, there is a profound link between people’s housing situation and D PRESTON MOULSECOOMB Y their wellbeing; with 60% of renters in particular, saying K PARK their housing situation made lockdown harder. E R END O A START D D A O R HOVE 2: FIVEWAYS PARK Walking time: 1.5 hours S Distance: 4 miles – hilly E HOVE W PRESTON E HOVE RFC Start: Hollingbury Avenue CEMETERY NORTH O R E H A M R O A D PARK L END O L D S H End: Hertford Road START HOVE CEMETERY D BEA A R ROAD 4: MOULSECOOMB BOAT O Walking time: 1 hour 45 mins Distance: 5 miles R 1: HOVE ALDRINGTON LONDON – hilly with steps over bridge at HOVE GREEN L ROAD G BRIGHTON Walking time: 2 hours Distance: 5.6 miles – mostly flat HOVE O N Moulsecoomb station N I START BOROUGH Start: Kingsway (near Boundary Road junction), Portslade D L CEMETERY Start: Mountfields End: Kimberley Road O End(s): Cissbury Road or Montpelier Road, Hove N H C E END 1 R T V I O O R SUSSEX D G A THE ELM CRICKET D GROUND LEVEL WISH PARK 5: HANOVER & QUEENS PARK START BRIGHTON Walking time: 1 hour, Distance: 3.2 miles – hilly D One Start: Fairlight Place A Church O End: Hendon Street R QUEENS S PARK N E END 2 E END U Q EAST BRIGHTON How will you #PUSHBACK? Housing sign PARK Community led housing sign We invite you to share your ideas via #PUSHBACKBRIGHTON or by contacting us @BaHCLT [email protected] More signs will be added around the City See our campaign page for all the latest updates: bhclt.org.uk/pushbackbrighton/ over the following months BRIGHTON BACK PUSH # FOR PROFIT FOR See our campaign page for all the latest updates: bhclt.org.uk/pushbackbrighton/ updates: latest the all for page campaign our See We invite you to share your ideas via #PUSHBACKBRIGHTON or by contacting us @BaHCLT [email protected] @BaHCLT us contacting by or #PUSHBACKBRIGHTON via ideas your share to you invite We MAP OVERLEAF MAP ? BACK PUSH # you will How NOT NOT BRIGHTON BACK PUSH # THE FOR OPEN UP OPEN FOR PEOPLE FOR HOMES HOMES better housing future. housing better talking about what can be done to build a a build to done be can what about talking BRIGHTON deepening housing crisis and get people people get and crisis housing deepening The signs are going up to highlight the city’s city’s the highlight to up going are signs The BACK to sell yet another unaffordable home. home. unaffordable another yet sell to venues around the city, but they aren’t there there aren’t they but city, the around venues A up outside homes, businesses and and businesses homes, outside up #PUSH going are boards agent’ ‘estate 100 new… something notice may you month, this city the around WALK YOU S Look out for the green and blue signs 3: COLDEAN 5: HANOVER AND QUEENS PARK outside some of the buildings on your walk. Walking time: 25 mins Distance: 1.2 miles – Walking time: 1hr, Distance: 3.2 miles – hilly These belong to some of our city’s housing mostly flat with steeper off road footpath up to Site 21a Housing Coops: Rosa Bridge and Bunker co-operatives. Coop: Selby Housing Co-operative Rosa Bridge housing co-op was set up as an alternative to 1: HOVE Coldean Community Organisation are hosting a special trail housing for profit. We bought our beautiful house in 2014 and Walking time: 2hrs Distance: 5.6 miles – mostly flat around taking you through the work they’ve been doing it will forever provide an affordable, safe, secure home for Coops: Brighton Rock & Two Piers (twopiers.coop) exploring community and nature led housing on a site in their lgbtqia+ people in Brighton & Hove. Brighton Rock Housing Coop provides affordable short- area. www.coldeancommunity.org Bunker is a fully mutual housing co-operative and has been life housing to people living in a single household setting. See the map overleaf for their trail and scan the QR code. working on developing a model that can be rolled out over Community-led since 1987, Brighton Rock houses 12 adult several ‘infill’ sites across the city. Bunker aims to enable members in three terraced properties. Formed by a group 4: MOULSECOOMB low-income, self-employed people like themselves to take of squatters who wanted shared housing, affordable rents, Walking time: 1 hr 45 mins Distance: 5 miles – back control of their housing situation and to build their security and a level of self management not offered by hilly with steps over bridge at Moulsecoomb station own beautifully designed, secure and permanently PLEASE private sector accommodation. Brighton Rock recently Coop: Skylark affordable housing. @bunkerbuild invested in BHCLT shares to help purchase Brighton’s first Our housing co-op has been in Bevendean for seven years. SUPPORT Student Housing Coop. The co-op consists of activists, artists, educators, and WHAT IS COMMUNITY LED HOUSING? musicians involved in a range of social change issues, including Community led housing (CLH) is a way that people and OUR SHARE supporting vulnerable women, trans-activism and trans- communities can come together to solve their own housing 2: FIVEWAYS research, migrant justice, growing food, resource justice, issues and provide high quality and affordable homes. It includes Walking time: 1.5hrs Distance: 4 miles – hilly OFFER and radical relating. Our co-op aims to provide a safe, stable co-operatives, cohousing and self-build, and Community Land Coop: Out of Town and supportive environment for generations of politically Out of Town Housing Co-operative have been working to Trusts. Here are some examples of the many different groups we and socially active individuals. With the introduction of the have across the city. create mutually supportive accommodation for twenty-eight squatting ban, austerity and continual rises in rent prices, years, providing democratically run housing for over sixty many people like ourselves are struggling to find suitable members and children past and present. The importance of housing. The house provides a productive living space for a Our investment partner Ethex is providing a co-operative living option in Brighton, with its sky- diverse group of individuals and ensures the continuation HOW TO INVEST: managing the administration of this share offer for us. rocketing rent prices pushing many out of the city, has never of vital social and ecological projects for an equal society. Registered address: Ethex is a not-for-profit web platform which makes investing been more important. Twitter: @SkylarkCoop 3 Christchurch House, Bedford Place, Brighton BN1 2QJ easy to understand and do. outoftowncoop.wordpress.com www. skylarkhousingcoop.wordpress.com Society number: 7502 Website: www.bhclt.org.uk TO INVEST, PLEASE VISIT www.ethex.org.uk/BHCLT .