Fossetts For The People

#FFTP is a campaign set up by community activists with the support of @NEF, to champion building publicly owned keyworker & #councilhousing in #Southend.

[Jason Reid @JasonReidx]

May this photo haunt Starmer for the rest of his days.

[Shit Planning @PlanningShit]

For Fucks Sake! We keep producing this over processed, climate ignorant, low density, design deficient, noddy box shit year after year, and call it housing supply.

[Fossetts For The People @FFTP10]

The reason why we should be buying Social Rent/council housing.

[Sky News @SkyNews]

It’s an increasingly popular scheme, with shared ownership properties selling faster than other houses, according to data from Rightmove.

But with its unresolved flaws, is it fit for purpose? Read more here 👇
https://t.co/T6hyJxA4Xv

[Fossetts For The People @FFTP10]

This isn’t the end of the fight for new council housing in Southend though. It’s not acceptable for new homes to be build 9-12x the wages of keyworkers in our new city. It’s not acceptable to achieve pathetically minuscule new housing targets @SouthendBC

https://t.co/UpdC9k9Wnl

[Fossetts For The People @FFTP10]

This is extremely disappointing from @SouthendBC

With so many families on the waiting list, & an apparent inability to deliver adequate numbers of new social rent/council housing it is vital for Southend that the council stands up to the @HomesEngland.

#ukhousing @NEF

[Fossetts For The People @FFTP10]

This is a very sad conclusion to our fight for council/social rent homes at Fossetts Farm, a former NHS, still publicly owned site in Southend. It had the potential of over 400 genuinely affordable homes, but there was major blockages from @HomesEngland & no will from @SouthendBC

[S.E.Essex Green Party @SEEGreenParty]

We joined @UniteLondonEast, @FFTP10, @UnisonSouthend, @ACORNunion, and Action on Empty Homes at their national day of action in #Southend High Street today.

Image ©Paul Stygal.

[Fossetts For The People @FFTP10]

People of #Southend. Online public meeting on Monday night regarding the proposals for housing at the former NHS site at Fossetts Way. Have your say.

No booking required - just log in (on a browser or the Zoom app) anytime after 6.45pm for a 7pm start at https://t.co/wH5HaNix96

[Fossetts For The People @FFTP10]

Really good to see Basildon building large scale housing developments that 50/50split key-worker homes with new council housing. This is exactly the type of development that is needed in #Southend to help those most at need. #ukhousing @NEF

https://t.co/rwpEji1ATB

[Colin Nickless 💚 @NicklessColin]

What happened to the administration supporting the building of genuinely affordable housing? What happened to the @SouthendLabour manifesto commitment to support @FFTP10 aims of building social rent homes. Doesn’t #Southend has a waiting list of 1500 families?

[Colin Nickless 💚 @NicklessColin]

This is exactly what @SouthendBC should be doing on the Fossetts site in #Southend @CllrIanGilbert not more shared ownership, “affordable”rent that is 80% of market rent, and more executive homes.

@FFTP10 @NEF

[Fossetts For The People @FFTP10]

There is still time to get objections into this site. Cllrs have the power to vote this down if it is not in the best interests of the community. #Southend. @DCHcampaign @robbins_glyn #SocialRent @genrentuk #unaffordablehousing #housing #housingcrisis #councilhousing

[Colin Nickless 💚 @NicklessColin]

What happened to the administration supporting the building of genuinely affordable housing? What happened to the @SouthendLabour manifesto commitment to support @FFTP10 aims of building social rent homes. Doesn’t #Southend has a waiting list of 1500 families?

[Fossetts For The People @FFTP10]

Interesting conversation on @BBCPoliticsLDN today regarding Councils that aren’t building enough social housing, contributing to high rents & overcrowding. Exasperation that councils aren’t using the public works loans to fund it.

Sound familiar in #Southend? @CllrIanGilbert

[Fossetts For The People @FFTP10]

@PhilipMillerMBE @cllrtonycox You can see a report on the study here.

https://t.co/8gMC2FERuD

Of course if the Cllr is concerned about affordability of rental prices for residents in Southend, the best way to help would be to get behind a mass building project of social rent homes on the Fossetts Way site.

[Fossetts For The People @FFTP10]

@PhilipMillerMBE @cllrtonycox Landlord licensing schemes have been rolled out across the country by local authorities led by both the Tories and Labour. Havering for example, a LA controlled by Tories has had it’s own study on its own licensing scheme which found no evidence in increases of rent.

[Tricia @LocalVocalSS3]

Are you a key worker struggling in private rented accommodation in Southend? @FFTP10 want to hear from keyworkers, people on the housing list, in temporary accommodation or who are homelesss. Please share your story. Contact via twitter their Facebook page Fossetts for the People

[Fossetts For The People @FFTP10]

Keyworker? Rent poverty? Tell us your story! Fighting for truly affordable social rent housing on ex #NHS land sell off in #Southend

[Colin Nickless 💚 @NicklessColin]

Here is a thread on continuing issues with the supply of truly #affordablehousing (social rent/council homes) in #Southend and the how national policy of investing in “home ownership” is damaging to residents on low incomes, or the approx 1500 on the waiting list for housing.