Housing Action Southwark and Lambeth

Our incredible organiser Fowsiyo has been fighting tirelessly to get justice after the tragic death of her sister Ayaan.

Lovely colouring in and drawings at our kids space this morning 👩‍🎨👨‍🎨

Great panel and audience contributions at the Peace and Justice Project Housing talk this afternoon. So much loud support for the council housing revolution we need!👏

And yesterday we participated in a housing workshop at the Anarchist Bookfair. It's been a busy weekend of outreach!

📰Just published! Our report on Jacqueline's legal challenge last week mailchi.mp/5755f3765738...

We were supporting our member Jacqueline this morning for her legal challenge against Southwark council.

Her unaffordable rent is leaving her with debts but the council refuse to recognise that she is homeless😠

We are still waiting on the judgement but we will keep you updated.

Over 1.6m children are now impacted by the Two-Child Limit - 11.6% of all children

This is a cruel policy that unnecessarily drags children into deeper levels of hardship

It needs to go, and the longer it is kept, the greater the scarring effects on children's health and education will be

30 degrees and still fighting the housing crisis!🥵💪💪Thanks so much to all our committed organisers and members for joining our meeting this morning with some travelling across London!

And the Universal Credit bill has passed. Some of the sickest people in the country will suffer needlessly more now. There is no justification, no excuse. Just ugly, cruel choices by ministers too cowardly to tax the wealthy rather than cut the poor. A shameful day for Starmer’s Labour.

HASL organisers posing for a group photo

Our amazing HASL organisers at our debrief meeting after our busy Saturday meeting - can you spot our 2 month old member who slept throughout the debrief? 👶

Developing guidance on neurodivergent children in TA - Fantastic multilingual community discussion this morning about neurodivergent children and their families’ housing needs led by @housingactionsl.bsky.social

A large group of HASL members holding banners - reading No More Overcrowding and Too Long In Temporary - pose for a photo.

📣Do you have a connection to Southwark?

🏠Over 120 HASL families living in temporary accommodation or overcrowded housing helped to write these template answers to Southwark council's housing waiting list consultation.

💪Please show your support by using our online form mailchi.mp/31d746562a11...

Housing ombudsman for England warns of ‘simmering anger’ over living conditions Richard Blakeway says 474% increase in complaints to his office in last five years points to risk of ‘social disquiet’

“The baseline set for the quality of social housing is completely detached from the reality of consumer experience elsewhere. It’s completely inadequate in the 21st century.” Housing Ombudsman: huge rise in complaints about repairs. @housingactionsl.bsky.social www.theguardian.com/society/2025...

🚨 1 week to go to respond to Southwark's housing waiting list consultation - use HASL's online form!📝

🗣️Do you live in Southwark or have a connection to Southwark?

✍️the link to our online form with HASL's template answers is here forms.gle/ZTpCwvd3R4cF...

🇪🇸en español aquí forms.gle/crgsms7t3umj...

Our monthly newsletter is here ready for your bank holiday reading! ☀️🗞 mailchi.mp/0e965707a7a7...

A large group of HASL members holding banners - reading No More Overcrowding and Too Long In Temporary - pose for a photo.

📣Do you have a connection to Southwark?

🏠Over 120 HASL families living in temporary accommodation or overcrowded housing helped to write these template answers to Southwark council's housing waiting list consultation.

💪Please show your support by using our online form mailchi.mp/31d746562a11...

Over half of London borough's larger council homes let outside bidding system A campaigner said there was 'no guarantee' if council homes were going to those most in need

Over half of a London borough’s larger council homes were let to families outside of the bidding system in the second half of last year.

A housing support group says it means there is 'no guarantee' council homes are going to those most in need.

www.mylondon.news/news/south-l...

Pleasure to help!!

🥳Eviction stopped! A HASL family were facing a no-fault eviction from their private rented home. With the help of @southwarklawcentre.bsky.social @jogilvieharris.bsky.social the judge threw out the landlord's case and our members have won more time in their home! Hurray for landlord licensing!

🐣Some great Bank Holiday reading in our latest newsletter which is full of housing organising, victories, and news from South London and beyond! mailchi.mp/e5bb391a328a...

Our HASL newsletter for March is finally here! 📰🏡❤

We've got loads of important news and updates on South London housing organising! (And sometimes beyond!)

Read, share, and sign up to receive it directly to your inbox! mailchi.mp/e5bb391a328a...

A large group of members from Housing Action Southwark and Lambeth at the entrance of Burgess Park holding a big banner reading 'We need 3, 4, 5 bed council homes'

Important research published in The Guardian today supporting our long-term campaign on the desperate need for 3, 4, 5 bed family-sized council homes!💪🏡❤️
www.theguardian.com/society/2025...

📸Peter Marshall

⚠️Child poverty has reached a new record high.

1 in 3 children living in deep poverty are migrant children. That's not a coincidence.

Hostile and punitive immigration rules are driving migrant families into poverty at a disproportionate rate.

Child poverty has reached a new record high with 4.5 million children falling below the poverty line in the year to April 2024.

Our new analysis shows child poverty will rise even higher on this government’s watch - to 4.8m by the end of this parliament (2029/30) - unless it takes urgent action including scrapping the two-child limit in its forthcoming child poverty strategy and stepping back from benefit cuts.

Families concern over apparent drop in large council homes available South London families stuck on a council’s housing waiting list for over a decade have expressed concern about an apparent

◆Firth, Robert, 2025, "Families Concern Over Apparent Drop in Large Council Homes Available", Southwark News, March 21, 2025, (southwarknews.co.uk/featured/fam...). @housingactionsl.bsky.social

🗣️Lambeth council - where are the homes?
Last year, there was a drastic reduction in 3 and 4 bed social homes on Lambeth's bidding system with no explanation - the explanation the council has finally offered is really absurd! Lambeth residents deserve honesty!
southwarknews.co.uk/featured/fam...

Inside battle to get council home as borough's 3 and 4-beds disappear Lambeth families say there are fewer three and four-bedroom social homes appearing than they have ever known

South London families stuck on a council's housing waiting list for over a decade have expressed concern about an apparent drop in the number of larger social homes available to bid on.
www.mylondon.news/news/south-l...

Homeless mum forced into 'severely overcrowded' flat wins legal battle A mum-of-two has won a court case against a London council over the 'severe overcrowding' in her one-bedroom flat.

📰More great coverage in the @bigissue.com of our member Sonia's important homeless appeal victory over Hackney council. Powerful testimony from the family of the difficulties living in cramped temporary accommodation and calling for council homes for all! www.bigissue.com/news/housing...

Labour-run Enfield council left 100 families homeless after they refused to relocate London council’s policy of offering people homes far from the area led to England’s highest number of refusals

Enfield council ended the homeless duties of 115 families making them destitute. This is a political choice by the council to end homeless support to their most vulnerable residents. As the stats show Enfield are unique in pursuing this devastating policy
www.theguardian.com/society/2025...

Labour-run Enfield council left 100 families homeless after they refused to relocate London council’s policy of offering people homes far from the area led to England’s highest rate of refusals A Labour-run London council left more than 100 families homeless without support last year after they refused to be relocated outside the…

Labour-run Enfield council left 100 families homeless after they refused to relocate