“Housing Action Teesside is a tenants’ union and housing campaign representing hundreds of tenants across Teesside, in both social and private rented housing. Our organisation is united around the belief that the housing crisis was created by political choices over many decades which put private profit ahead of people’s needs, and the commitment to organise alongside our neighbours for real change in our community to fight housing injustice.
As a group, we support individual tenants with housing issues and campaign collectively to improve housing conditions.
Many of our members are trapped in desperate housing conditions or have been on housing waiting lists for years. Other members, including vulnerable people, are forced into exploitative private rented housing they cannot afford leaving them in a cycle of homelessness, because there is no possibility for them to access social housing. We have come to the conclusion that solving the housing crisis in Teesside and across the country requires large-scale council housing-building.”
“It is the view of Housing Action Teesside that the scale of Stockton’s housing challenges can only be addressed sustainably in the long term through the reintroduction of local authority-owned, democratically accountable council housing stock, eventually built on a large scale.”
HAT has produced a report for discussion at a council committee. You can read their submission here or you can download the document below.
Labour Campaign for Council Housing 