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A DISABLED mother made homeless by Southwark Council won justice yesterday after activists took over the local town hall to support her demands for social housing.
Dozens of housing campaigners staged a sit-in at the council’s headquarters after bosses refused to give a former Aylesbury Estate tenant emergency housing when she went into arrears.
Security and police were called to the site — but the two-hour demonstration was brought to an end when the council’s head of community engagement Stephen Douglass agreed to find the woman, named only as Ruth, a house.
Our housing crisis isn’t an accident – it’s class war, trapping millions in poverty while landlords and billionaires profit. To solve it, we need comprehensive transformation, not mere tokenistic reform, writes BECK ROBERTSON
