Housing rights campaigners to hold march against evictions

Housing rights campaigners to hold march against evictions

Campaigners, activists and community groups will come together on Saturday for the rally

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 Falls Road and go to Belfast City Hall. The march has been endorsed by several community and activist groups, including PPR, Anaka Women’s Collective, Beechmount […] The post Housing activists to march in Belfast in protest against evictions appear…

“Housing is not the fifth pillar, it’s the first, because without a home you can’t make a life, you’re not anchored in society.” The phrase is from Richard Rodriguez, who sits in a bank in the Madrid neighborhood of Villaverde, explains how it’s like to live on an eviction and without enough resources to be able to assume a rent. “We lived in a private apartment in Vallecas, but after the crisis we were unemployed and we couldn’t pay,” he says. …

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