oin the Protest at the London Real Estate Forum from 8.30 am on Tuesday 14th June, Berkeley Square, Mayfair. Bring banners, bring neighbours and friends.
"The London Real Estate Forum is the premier event for the development sector, hosted in Berkeley Square, the heart of Mayfair, bringing two days of debate, deals and networking. It is attended by over 2,000 developers, investors, occupiers, policy makers and senior consultants representing the most senior tiers from across the industry". LREF offers “unrivalled insights, and unlimited opportunity” to participants.
http://www.lref.co.uk/
Eight London Boroughs are set to attend: Barking & Dagenham, Croydon, Hackney, Haringey, Kensington & Chelsea, Lambeth, Westminster, and Waltham Forest.
Last year there was an excellent protest outside this event. This year, let's go back in greater numbers: don’t let the developers knock down our homes and destroy our communities for private profit!
Called by Axe the Housing Act
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London is en route to becoming a playground for the rich elite - a process expedited by property developers in collusion with government and local authorities: promoting everything from local regeneration schemes to the Housing Act.
Assessing every possible opportunity for expensive, luxury flats to be built, property developers are buying up social and private housing and commercial spaces to ensure maximum profit at whatever cost. The social cost of this process is that poor, disadvantaged and vulnerable people/groups are being evicted, made homeless and/or are relocated and important community spaces are disappearing.
These profit-seekers care only for the bottom line. London’s attraction to the global financial elite is leading them to convert living spaces, social amenities and community assets into soulless investment opportunities which serve none but a tiny, privileged minority.
They are contributing to rising rents and a shortage of social housing, to the closure of libraries and social centres, the demolition of pubs and clubs. They are complicit in a process of social cleansing, by which London is becoming off-limits to the families and communities that have lived here for generations, and built its reputation as the UK’s diverse and vibrant capital.
WE CANNOT ALLOW THEM TO SELL OFF PUBLIC PROPERTY WITHOUT SHOWING OUR OPPOSITION.