KUWG at No to MIPIM

Report by CK — that's not Calvin Klein but Clarence Kwuggledite of the KUWG

No to MIPIM rocks!

Kuwg banner outside Centre (banner was slightly on 6.30pm bbc news with my hat and Robin's head/teeshirt, and Yiannis and Berlin Pauline).

KUWG banner at No to MIPIM

I visited The 'House of cards" built by protestors! Met Franz (Pauline took my photo) and I spoke to Darren Johnson (Green Party member of the London Assembly) who said to say hello to Swheatie of KUWG. [Swheatie adds: Darren Johnson is author of a report Crumbs for London: Why the Mayor of London's housing strategy will do little for ordinary Londoners.]

Great informed and organised protestors from Unite Community & Radical Housing Network mainly. A lot of the MIPIM people going in seemed genuinely bemused that their 'good deeds' (Regeneration) could be criticised, but many took leaflets.

Over and out.

Clarence Kwuggledite at No to MIPIM

CK

KUWG says, "No to MIPIM."

Corrupt MIPIM

By Revd Paul Nicolson of Taxpayers Against Poverty

I have joined the Radical Housing Network who are highlighting the risks to the health and well being of low income renters of the mass exploitation of London property for private gain.

http://radicalhousingnetwork.org/

MIPIM (Le marché international des professionnels de l'immobilier - The international market  of professionals in real estate) is an international property event hosted in Cannes, France each March. It is hosted by Reed MIDEM and advertised as one of the largest real estate shows, including an exhibition area, networking events and expert-led conference sessions over a period of 4 days.

They are coming to London for a huge  global

 property event 

in London on

the 15th - 17th of October. 

MIPIM attracts people from a wide variety of real estate sectors. It aims to facilitate business between investors, corporate end-users, local authorities, hospitality professionals, industrial and logistics players and other real estate professionals.

In Tottenham w

e already have experience of the corrupt practices of MIPIM who were party to an invitation to a Haringey Councilor to a meeting on a Yacht in Cannes in the South of France

, some of whose expenses were paid by investors,

to discuss the redevelopment of council houses in Tottenham; that means the demolition of them. 

Turning the UK into an international free-market in property can only mean more cash flowing into private hands, out of the UK, and away from the common good of every UK citizen and the need for truly affordable housing to rent o

r

buy.

http://www.hamhighbroadway.co.uk/news/report_finds_haringey_council_s_luxury_yacht_trip_actually_cost_taxpayers_9k_1_3488245

Get the Market out of Housing - meet Tuesday Aug 12th Unite

From: London Not For Sale
Date: 10 August 2014 14:33
Subject: Get the Market out of Housing - meet Tuesday Aug 12th Unite

No to MIPIM meeting
Tuesday, August 12, 7PM,
Unite, 128 Theobalds Road, Holborn WC1X 8TN

Join housing groups from across London to strategise the next stage in the resistance to the MIPIM property fair happening in our city October 15 – 17. This meeting will discuss:

• Building a mass housing demonstration October 15th, 9:30 AM
• An alternative conference against speculation, October 17th
• An international action October 17th, 5PM hosting members of the European Action Coalition for the Right to Housing and the City
• A preparatory cross-London networking meeting on housing and land rights, September 16th
• Building a national network against the marketisation of housing
• The hosting of the next meeting of the European Action Coalition for the Right to Housing and the City, October 19 – 20

Contact londonnotforsale AT gmail.com for more info.

What is MIPIM?
MIPIM proudly describes itself as the world's largest property fair, attracting around 20,000 investors, developers, local authorities, and banks each year.

Typically it takes place annually in Cannes, France. This year will see the first MIPIM UK, to be held at London’s Olympia 15-17 October. Billed as ‘the 1st UK property trade show gathering all professionals looking to close deals in the UK property market’ - a gathering of professionals and elites looking to profiteer from UK land and property.

Join local tenant organisations; the Radical Housing Network; the European Action Coalition for the Right to Housing and the City and a range of other groups to say NO to MIPIM: YES to housing justice for all!

Why?

Local authorities that attend are on the lookout for potential business partners and corporate interests who'll collaborate on yet more 'regeneration' plans. We don't want more boutique hotels, offices, luxury housing and shopping centres, we don't want our neighbourhoods to be gentrified and entire communities evicted. We want quality affordable housing for all.

We are facing a major housing crisis with prices spiralling out of control, cuts to housing support services, the bedroom tax hitting the most vulnerable, and public land being sold off. Major investors speculate on land and property whilst record numbers of homeless are living on the streets.

MIPIM promotes an unsustainable, privatised and profit-driven approach to housing for the benefit of a small elite, one that destroys our communities and keeps millions in poverty. We say enough is enough. Join community struggles across Europe taking action in the run-up to MIPIM UK. Contact 

londonnotforsale AT gmail.com

Brent Housing Action calls for Brent residents' testimonies for a tribunal

A guest blog piece by Brent Housing Action about council collusion with those who privatise public services for profit at the cost of economically vulnerable people's misery. Heading and some links supplied by Swheatie of the KUWG's Internet searching, other links to follow from BHA.

"By their fruits shall they be known"

In March Brent Councillors will join with global financiers and politicians, multinational building firms, latifundista landlords, Housing Associations and just about any other group involved in land ownership or property — except tenants — for few days of sunshine and mutual backslapping in Cannes on the Cote d'Azur. Their excuse for meeting up on the beach is a conference called MIPIM. MIPIM is to housing what DSEI [Defence and Security Equipment International] is to the arms trade. It is a way to develop new strategies to divide up the globe and keep local populations under control.

Opposition to MIPIM amongst housing activist groups has been growing exponentially since the effects of this conference became plain in 1992. This year activists will hold those attending MIPIM to account: we will make them face a public tribunal which will present them with cases showing their greed and lack of concern for local residents.

Brent Housing Action are preparing a case against three of the groups attending: the Housing Association Genesis, Building Contractors Willmot-Dixon and, of course, Brent Council, who have used these two firms to devastating effect during the' regeneration' of the South Kilburn Estate.

If you are interested in contributing your thoughts on the regeneration please contact us at brenthousingaction@gmail.com.

We are particularly interested in speaking to the following groups:

1) Tenants who took legal action against the Council (as happened in Fielding House);

2) Tenants who were "decanted" (moved) out of the borough;

3) Tenants who were moved into inadequate housing, even if temporarily (this can include the new builds too!)

But we welcome any stories about the regeneration from ANYONE who has had the misfortune to live through the break-up of their local community.

Thank you.
Brent Housing Action