CATU Belfast

A flyer for an event organised by CATU Belfast and called "haunted house" that uses the design of the poster for the Japanese movie Hausu.

Poster for the Japanese movie Hausu that represents the grinning face of a big and scary orange cat.

Not only @catubelfast.bsky.social works for a good cause, they also have the best references!

Bánú agus Tinteán páirteach i léirsiú tithíochta i mBÁC Bhí “atmaisféar álainn” ann Dé Sathairn ag léirsiú náisiúnta tithíochta i mBaile Átha Cliath, a dúirt leas-rúnaí Bánú.

Sheas Pobal na Gaeilge agus na Gaeltachta le @CatuIreland ag agóid ghéarchéim tithíochta ag an deireadh seachtaine.

Bhí guth na nGaeltachtaí le cloisteáil; gan tithe, níl pobal ann - agus gan phobal, níl teanga ann. ✊ www.independent.ie/seachtain/ba...

[Photo Thread] All Island Housing Demo called by CATU Ireland.

[Photo Thread] Stop Illegal Evictions march organised by @catubelfast.bsky.social

(10/05/25)

The problem is rampant and aggressive landlordsim, and a devolved Stormont that does nothing to build social housing or protect renters. Immigration, new communities and refugees were never the problem.

An anti-eviction march, organised by @catubelfast.bsky.social, took place today. It went from Dunville Park on the Falls Road to Belfast City Hall.

Marchers holding banners and placards. The lead banner reads "Safe Secure Homes For All"

A speaker addresses the protest.

A speaker addresses the protest.

A speaker addresses the protest.

[Photo Thread] Today's Anti-Eviction March by @catubelfast.bsky.social

Housing activists to march in Belfast in protest against evictions - VIEWdigital Housing campaigners, activists and community groups are to march in Belfast against evictions tomorrow (Saturday, May 10).  The anti-eviction march will take place at 12.30pm from Dunville Park on the...

Housing activists to march in Belfast in protest against evictions - viewdigital.org/housing-acti...

Join CATU today and get involved at catuireland.org/join

We will be marching from Dunville Park to City Hall tomorrow at 12.30pm calling for an end to Evictions in our city. If you want to learn more about who we are and what we do - come on down and join us for the afternoon!

Fatima can now have the time and space she needs to heal from her recent surgery in her own home.

No one should be faced with the dehumanising conditions that Fatima endured.

We are organising so that no one else will have to!

Now, thanks to her support network and her fellow union members in CATU - Fatima has a Safe, Secure Home!

She was devastated to learn she would not be allowed any visitors in a time where her friends and social support network are a lifeline. This new hostel offer was so unsuitable that our member was left with no choice but to sleep on a friend’s sofa.

On 4th February 2025, the Housing Executive evicted our member from the B&B in Crumlin and offered her a new placement in a hostel in Belfast.

Our member went to the hostel to be greeted with a broken shower, shared kitchen, £25 weekly service charge, respiratory hazards and accessibility issues.

Photo of a hand holding a door key with text overlaid. Text reads Single let secured

We won! 💚✊

You might remember Fatima's case from a few months ago...

Well, after months of organising and pressure, our member Fatima has finally been provided with a Single Let by the Housing Executive.

What is the impact of years of Local Housing Allowance rates being frozen? According to the Department for Communities there is ‘no impact’.

But with private rents across NI rising every month, our latest Policy Watch looks at how true this statement can be 👇

www.nlb.ie/investigatio...

Every empty building and derelict home is an insult to people made homeless by a cruel system that puts private profits above the public good.

March with us this Saturday, join CATU Belfast, and let's build a Belfast where everyone has a Safe, Secure Home.

We are fighting for Safe, Secure Homes for All right across our city. We do not accept this manufactured Housing Crisis. We know the solutions are out there - the politicians and their landlord mates simply refuse to carry them out!

It is unconscionable that the Housing Executive is evicting families into homelessness in the middle of a housing crisis. It is unforgivable that our so-called representatives refuse to tackle landlordism while our communities face ever increasing rents and the constant threat of eviction!

CATU members holding placards on a bright sunny day. The placards read: No to all evictions, Fight Rent Increases Join CATU, More Homes Less Homelessness, Their Profits from our Pockets. Pobail Chan Pubaill.

poster in green and white. Text reads: Safe Secure Homes for All. Anti-Eviction March. Saturday 10th May 12.30pm. Dunville Park to City Hall.

📍 From the Anti-Eviction Bloc to the Anti-Eviction March 💚💪

Join us this Saturday 10th May at 12.30pm in Dunville Park as we march to the Housing Executive.

We are demanding an end to Evictions and the end to the unfair treatment of our members by the Housing Executive's broken Succession Policy.

🚨Help needed! 🚨

A family that @catubelfast.bsky.social have been supporting for the past year have recently given birth to twins and are in urgent need of a double pram suitable for newborns!

Can you help? Email leasha@pprproject.org 💛

If not, please share! 🗣️

Green graphic with yellow banner reading: What's happening?. White text in the body reads: This new hostel offer is so unsuitable that our member has been left with no choice but to sleep on a friend’s sofa ever since. This is unacceptable.

Green graphic with yellow banner reading: Our demands. White text in the body reads: Our member is about to start her cancer treatment and is immunocompromised, isolated and increasingly distressed about her housing situation. This cannot be ignored by the Housing Executive any longer.

Green graphic with yellow banner reading: Our demands. White text in the body reads: 1. An offer of single-let accommodation in Belfast. 2. Our member reserves the right to reject an offer if it’s unsuitable or will contribute to: i. heightened risk of infection ii. further social isolation iii. aggravated PTSD symptoms.

Green graphic with yellow banner reading: Our demands. White text in the body reads: We will continue to escalate this case until our demands are met. Please share this post to show the Housing Executive that we won’t tolerate what we perceive to be their apathy, incompetence and neglect. Everyone has the right to a safe, secure home.

Green graphic with yellow banner reading: What's happening?. White text in the body reads: Our member has been denied access to a safe home by the Housing Executive. This is despite her ongoing physical and mental health struggles and recent cancer diagnosis.

Green graphic with yellow banner reading: What's happening?. White text in the body reads: The average stay that a homeless household spends in a Hotel/B&B is 28 days*. As of today, our member has spent over 340 days living in unsuitable B&Bs. (*Source: HE 2022-23 data)

Green graphic with yellow banner reading: What's happening?. White text in the body reads: Our member received her lung cancer diagnosis on 16th January 2025 and told the Housing Executive. On 4th February 2025, the Housing Executive evicted our member from the B&B in Crumlin and offered her a new placement in a hostel in Belfast.

Green graphic with yellow banner reading: What's happening?. White text in the body reads: Our member went to the hostel to be greeted with a broken shower, shared kitchen, £25 weekly service charge, respiratory hazards and accessibility issues. She was devastated to learn she would not be allowed any visitors in a time where her friends and social support network are a lifeline.

Green graphic with white text reading: Housing Executive putting our member battling cancer at risk.

🚨 Housing Executive putting our member battling cancer at risk. 🚨

Polaroid photo of members of CATU Belfast holding a CATU flag following a football match. a are wearing red jerseys and smiling.

photo of members of CATU Belfast holding a CATU flag following a football match. a are wearing red jerseys and smiling.

We were also proud to field our first ever CATU Belfast team at Spórtlann and United Against Racism Anti-Racism Cup! Our members put in hard graft and secured some beautiful goals in the face of tough opposition. Go raibh míle maith agaibh as an gcluichí ⚽💚✊

photo of a large crowd of people holding a catu flag outside a terraced house

What a weekend!

We had a fantastic community day yesterday in Norglen Parade with a huge amount of support from neighbours and CATU members. We will not accept Housing Executive evictions in our communities.

Their mouthpieces are peddling division and hatred to divide us while they raise our rents and refuse to build social housing.

Now, as in the generations before us, we must stand together to end landlordism and guarantee Safe, Secure Homes for All.

Hopefully we will see you there!

we have the power to stand up to the rotten system that oppresses us.

Today, we are enduring a housing crisis being (mis)managed by landlord politicians in every corner of these islands.

Ashton's politics were rooted in class struggle and driven by solidarity for all those suffering at the hands of a state intent on maximising profits and crushing dissent. This film shows us that by extending the hand of friendship, and building real networks of solidarity,

We've chosen this film in honour of Portrush-reared Mark Ashton, who's impulse for solidarity led to the creation of Lesbians and Gays Support the Miners during London's Lesbian and Gay Pride in 1984.