HOUSING activists staged a mass protest outside a swanky London property awards ceremony last night.

Kill the Housing Bill campaigners joined others from the Radical Housing Network and Focus E15 in front of the Grovesnor House hotel in Park Lane, where the event to honour developers was being held.

“London is in the midst of an acute housing crisis, in which ordinary people are finding it harder and harder to afford and keep a home,” said a spokesman for the demonstration’s organisers.