Camden Community Makers

Promoting cooperative community led and social housing in London

[Catherine Kenyon @cmdkenyon]

Residents, lots of them, giving their evenings/weekends/lunch breaks to meet, design posters, speak to cllrs, organise playstreets, hold stalls, organise zoom calls, attend protests because the status quo isn’t good enough. A massive thanks to all local groups calling for change!

[Nationwide Foundation @NationwideFdtn]

Community-led housing provides the homes people need, in the places they're needed at prices people can truly afford.
Here, @JocelleLovell considers how #COVID19 has impacted residents living in community-led housing.

[Camden Community Makers @Coops4London]

Was great to contribute to this important report calling for more cooperation esp housing!

[PricedOut @PricedOutUK]

We've joined @londonyimby and @yimbyalliance to call on @HistoricEngland not to block the development of 50 new homes for homeless households in Camden.

We've published our letter below; please add your support by emailing [email protected]

[Up the Elephant 🌍 @UpTheElephant_]

Closure day 24/09/2020

💥😢We marched in sadness and defiance.

❤🐘The Elephant did not go down without a roar.

✊And still we rise

✊We fight on

#SupportElephantTraders
#ElephantandCastle
#ElephantJR

[Tony Diver @Tony_Diver]

This photo is from the blockade in Knowsley, Merseyside, where there is another Newsprinters plant

[Brent Toderian @BrentToderian]

Want to “fire up the local economy” as we recover from the #coronavirus pandemic? “Research from @TFL in 2018 found that people walking, cycling & using public transport spend 40% more than motorists in local shops.” Via ⁦@carltonreid⁩ in @Forbes. https://t.co/1rmtZR3k36

[Camden Community Makers @Coops4London]

social housing is just better!

[Brent Toderian @BrentToderian]

I’ll say it again — some of the most interesting new architecture in Vancouver continues to be in social housing.

[Somerford Grove Renters @GroveRenters]

👋We are a group of tenants who asked our billionaire landlord @YianisCY for rent relief & security under COVID-19. Our letting agents responded by threatening to sue us. Now the evictions ban is lifting, some may be made homeless. Sign our open letter: https://t.co/xz9HCyDlKH

[Camden Community Makers @Coops4London]

think some roads are too busy to close? think again
https://t.co/BCAu49WKT5

[filter more streets @iambrianjones]

This bridge in East London used to carry thousands of cars and trucks every day.

It was noisy, polluted and dangerous.

It was closed to motor traffic a few months ago.

This is what it looked like today.

[Camden Community Makers @Coops4London]

@AmosMurphy_ @_LouisGreen nothing else comes close to the numbers you get in a football stadium. In North Africa it has developed as a space of protest as well... https://t.co/tRbOBPXn4G

[Catherine Kenyon @cmdkenyon]

None of my immediate neighbours have cars anymore. It’s giving this bit of street quite a different feel. Now I’m dreaming up all of the cool things we could be doing with this space instead....wider pavements, parklets?community gardens? Mini-football pitch....

[BHESCo @BHenergyservice]

Tomorrow Chancellor @RishiSunak will announce details of a £3bn green investment package.

This is welcome news, as BHESCo have been saying for years that such support is essential for the UK's #NetZero ambitions.

https://t.co/7H3D6jpnXp #GreenRecovery #Housing

[Micko & The Mellotronics @M_Mellotronics]

Micko & The Mellotronics waiting for a bit of action

[Uni of Kent UCU @UoK_UCU]

Staff threatened with redundancy at Kent could encircle campus several times if following the 2 metre social distancing rule

[The Daily Show @TheDailyShow]

Here are some of the words Trump has said while in total command of his faculties at these coronavirus briefings

[Camden Community Makers @Coops4London]

@BBCNews Key workers need homes they can afford to live in #coronavirus has shown us that we need to make sure our lowest paid have access to homes they can afford. Housing for our Essential and KEY WORKERS!!!
Join our campaign ! https://t.co/er9EKnATbo

[Camden Community Makers @Coops4London]

the creation of a socially distant cafe society alongside the socially distant protests against Netanyahu last week - this really is the labour we need to reclaim and reimagine the city
https://t.co/cfPfrIEh8q

[Camden Community Makers @Coops4London]

last few tickets left of our community film festival https://t.co/iqvhSxLdMd

[Mortimer Terrace Nature Reserve @NatureTerrace]

Help us buy Mortimer Terrace Nature Reserve, under threat from development from property speculators Follow us on Twitter or find us on Facebook
https://t.co/MspqO5RkSb