July | 2025 | Housing Action Southwark & Lambeth
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1 post published by housingactionsl during July 2025| Housing Action Southwark & Lambeth
Jacqueline and HASL members outside the court before the hearing last Thursday A sketch from inside the court hearing by a HASL member Last Thursday, our long-term HASL member Jacqueline went to th…| Housing Action Southwark & Lambeth
Do you live in Southwark? Or do you have another connection to Southwark – for example, do you work in Southwark? Or do you have family who live in Southwark? Or do you have a homeless duty w…| Housing Action Southwark & Lambeth
HASL occupying Lewisham council housing office for our Halloween protest 2024 has been HASL’s busiest year ever fighting the devastating and spiralling homelessness crisis. We’ve regularly had over…| Housing Action Southwark & Lambeth
HASL have recently done Freedom of Information research to all London councils to look at their use of private sector discharge. We’ve found a doubling in the use of private sector discharge (since our last research 2017) and a huge increase in the number of families being forced to the North East of England under […]| Housing Action Southwark & Lambeth
In our Frequently Asked Questions article below we answer the following questions about private sector discharge. What is private sector discharge? Private sector discharge is when a local council uses their legal powers to end a homeless duty with a mandatory offer of private rented housing. Although it’s called an ‘offer’, applicants do not have […]| Housing Action Southwark & Lambeth
Housing association tenants demand urgent action on dangerous overcrowding Five families from Lambeth who are all tenants of Metropolitan Housing Association have written an open letter to their so…| Housing Action Southwark & Lambeth
On 11th April, homeless families and families living in overcrowded housing used their school holiday to raise the alarm on the housing emergency and the record-breaking homelessness statistics whi…| Housing Action Southwark & Lambeth
This year, we celebrated our 10th birthday with over 300 of our members! This is an incredible achievement for a member-run organisation of homeless families and individuals and others struggling w…| Housing Action Southwark & Lambeth
At short notice, HASL organised a huge response to Lambeth council’s out of the blue housing waiting list consultation. As well as being out of the blue, the time frame given by the council w…| Housing Action Southwark & Lambeth
IMPORTANT UPDATE: After Public Interest Law Centre threatened legal action, Lambeth council have now agreed to extend the consultation deadline – for this consultation as well as 2 other hous…| Housing Action Southwark & Lambeth
Our campaign has won our demand that Optivo/Southern Housing stop their eviction and that our member is re-housed in local social housing. Last month our member moved into his new permanent home in…| Housing Action Southwark & Lambeth
Please support our letter action in support of our member Y who is facing eviction by Optivo (now Southern Housing). Over 200 letters have already been sent to Optivo’s CEO in support of our …| Housing Action Southwark & Lambeth
