Tag: Camden
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The Empty Chair: Why We Are Backing Zack Polanski
Democracy is not won behind closed doors with prime ministerial photo-ops and hand-picked media entourages. It is earned on the ground, standing shoulder-to-shoulder with the communities enduring Camden’s deepening housing crisis. On the eve of this election, we saw a textbook example of what is wrong with Sagal Abdi-Wali’s campaign. Frontline homeless outreach is commissioned…
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At least 22 deaths, a 23% rough sleeping surge, and no RSVPs: Why are candidates dodging Camden’s housing crisis?
With the Holborn & St Pancras by-election rapidly approaching, Streets Kitchen, along with other frontline organisations, has invited candidates from across the political spectrum to our independent Housing & Homelessness Hustings this Tuesday at 11a Pratt Street. This hustings is being run in strict accordance with Electoral Commission guidance: it is an independent, non-partisan platform…
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Solidarity, Not Surveillance: Why Police Belong Nowhere Near Camden’s Homeless Forum
Let’s be completely clear: homelessness is a housing and human rights crisis, not a police matter. At Streets Kitchen, like many other grassroots groups, our entire ethos is built on trust, dignity, and radical solidarity. You cannot build trust with people surviving on the street while sitting shoulder-to-shoulder with the very people paid to move…
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The “Green” Wall: A Monument to Systematic Failure at Heal’s
For over a century, the Heal’s Building on Tottenham Court Road has been more than a temple to high-end furniture; it has been a landmark of architectural refuge. But as the building’s new corporate owners, KKR and General Projects, move forward with their “repositioning” of the site as The Manufactory, a new and cynical feature…