ACT-ING to safeguard the vulnerable

The Past and Future of Housing Vulnerable Groups, in Public and Sheltered Housing.

Failures of action, policies and protection of the vulnerable have been highlighted by recent public housing crises and scandals. Are we witnessing a new era of social housing abuse?

It is a sad irony that often built to protect the most economically, socially, physically and emotionally vulnerable, the concerns and interests of these groups are often totally of discarded when it comes to changes being initiated within Social Housing.

Just as the advent of Child Line in the 1980s heralded a new era of child abuse awareness, are we now witnessing #METOO of Social Housing Abuses?
How can we prevent, resist, support, protect ourselves and ally with, those enduring Social Housing Abuses?

This event is part of Modernist Gem: a series of events as part of the London Festival of Architecture, highlighting the battle against the demolition of Kate Macintosh’s Leigham Court Sheltered Housing Scheme, and the community which inspired it, led by Anne Okokon, Co-chair of the Save Leigham Court, Sheltered Housing Campaign.

The London Festival of Architecture is the world’s largest annual architecture festival, with a mission to democratise discussions around architecture, such as these. Please join us.

Sponsored by: MAIL BOXES ETC, Streatham & Cressingham Gardens Resident Management Company.