Here you will find aids to campaign for improvements within your housing association or co-operative, or to raise issues within the social housing sector.
Templates
- Template Letter: Suspend Rent and Service Charges
- Template letter to MPs on Leaseholding Debate
- Template Agenda: Tenant and Resident Association launch meetings
- Template Agenda: Tenant and Resident Association regular meetings
- Template Letter: Request Fire Risk Assessment
- SHAC – Template Letter – Local Council Sprinkler Installation Plans
Quick Guides
- Guide to Challenging Service Overcharging (for Housing Benefit Recipients)
- Setting Up a Tenants or Residents Association
- Complaints Against Landlords
- Using Housing Association Statistics
- Rent Strikes
- Guide to Writing and Circulating Press Releases
Develop a plan for a sustained campaign:
- Set up a group
- Hold effective meetings
- Set your goals
- Communicate
- Strategies and tactics
- Keep building and learning
Inspiration from the Anti-Eviction Movement in Spain
We’ll either force the bank to negotiate or force public services to re-house you, or we’ll occupy empty housing in an act of civil disobedience! PAH – Anti-Eviction Movement, Spain
Watch Si Se Puede – a moving and inspiring film on the anti-eviction movement that developed in Spain after their housing bubble crashed. Great demands by the PAH anti-eviction group, and lots of organising tips.
Other Resources
