CALL TO ACTION: Halloween Picket at Hackney Council Meeting

CALL TO ACTION: Halloween Picket at Hackney Council Meeting to demand

housing rights!

WEDNESDAY 31 OCTOBER

6 - 7:30 PM

Hackney Town Hall, Mare Street E8 [http://www.tiny.cc/vdevt]

Contact: 07932241737

londoncoalitionagainstpoverty@gmail.com

This Halloween we demand our rights!

'A NIGHT LEFT ON MARE ST' - Hackney council turns the homeless away

London Coalition Against Poverty have called for people to picket the

Hackney Council meeting this Halloween. Hackney Council's Homeless

Person's Unit (HPU) has been systematically denying people their rights.

This picket will demand that the council immediately halt these illegal

and unjust practices.

Come show your solidarity and join in the picket! Come to the picket

dressed as something scary and send shivers up the councillor's spines -

bring noisemakers if you'd like to.

More info:

London Coalition against Poverty (LCAP) has been at Hackney Housing Needs

office since July 2007, and we have seen time and again that homeless

people are turned away unlawfully. Hackney Council cares more about

balancing their budget through not housing people then about their

residents needs. They try to delay or stop people making a homeless

application, and to achieve this the staff often act in an intimidating

and sometimes abusive way. Because of this "gate keeping" at the housing

needs office many vulnerable people and families are left on the street or

other insecure, dangerous places. Hackney Council will be held

accountable for the gatekeeping at the Housing office.

LCAP demands:

- An end to gate keeping at Hackney HPU

- Stop the intimdation of people that approach the HPU

- Genuinely affordable housing to rent in Hackney - no more people chased

out of the borough

LCAP will continue to haunt Hackney Council until these changes are made.

TRICK OR TREAT THE COUNCIL!