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Middleton meeting to debate Housing Bill

On 8 May 2016 By Guest Post

Decent, secure, affordable housing for all – meeting in Middleton Thursday 12 May This Thursday (12 May 2016) the Leeds housing campaign group Hands Off Our Homes is holding a public meeting to discuss what the Housing and Planning Bill means for ourselves and our communities. Please join us at

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Stop the Housing Bill public meeting

On 25 April 2016 By Guest Post

Stop the Housing Bill, Stop the Sell-Off of Social Housing, Stop Unfair Housing Benefit Cuts – public meeting at 7pm, Thursday 12th May, at Middleton Cross church hall, Middleton Park Avenue, LS10 4HX Do you care about having a decent, secure, affordable housing for yourself, your children and your grandchildren?

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One Year on – Anti-bedroom tax demonstrators take to the streets again

On 2 April 2014 By leeds11

Anti-bedroom tax campaigners in Leeds are set to take to the streets of the city centre again on Saturday (April 5 2014) to protest against the policy a year after its introduction. A demonstration marking the introduction of the bedroom tax last year attracted over 1,000 people. The demonstration

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Hilary Benn writes – Foodbanks

On 14 January 2014 By leeds11

The growth of food banks has been really noticeable in the last few years. In our city there are now five open or about to start work, including one operating in South Leeds. Across Yorkshire and Humberside the number of people – adults and children – needing help from

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Inner South Area Committee to discuss impact of Welfare Reforms

On 27 August 2013 By leeds11

Leeds City Council’s Inner South Area Committee is to meet next Wednesday (4th September 2013) and on its agenda is a detailed report on the impact of welfare reforms in the area. The government’s welfare reform programme has included the introduction of limits to Housing Benefit – the so-called

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South of the River – Streets in the sky

On 9 August 2013 By leeds11

I was delighted to discover this week that blocks of flats will be overlooking Holbeck Moor once more when the new housing is completed in a year or two. I poked my nose into the open day event that sc4L held last Monday at St Matthew’s Community Centre. It’s

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Bedroom Tax: Council re-designates properties

On 29 May 2013 By leeds11

Yesterday Leeds City Council announced that it is re-designating 837 properties (out of the 57,950 it owns), reducing the number of official bedrooms they have, but campaigners say this isn’t enough to protect people from the Bedroom Tax. As previously reported on South Leeds Life, tenants in social housing

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A Thousand March Against Bedroom Tax In Leeds

On 22 April 2013 By leeds11

Over 1,000 people marched against the Bedroom Tax in Leeds on Saturday. The march was organised by Hands Off Our Homes who have been holding meetings in heavily affected areas throughout Leeds and is building mass Bedroom Tax resistance. The protest attracted a diverse range of participants from the elderly

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Marchers To Call For No Bedroom Tax Evictions

On 17 April 2013 By leeds11

Campaigners opposed to the Bedroom Tax will march in Leeds this Saturday. The group Hands Off Our Homes have organised the demonstration and expect 1,000 people to join them. The so-called “Bedroom Tax” is a reduction in Housing Benefit for households who are deemed to have “too many” bedrooms. It

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South of the River – in the land of “reform”

On 22 March 2013 By leeds11

Never mind the Budget this week, it’s the massive cuts already coming our way in the Welfare Reforms that will hurt South Leeds. I went to the Inner South Area Committee meeting on Wednesday night. I haven’t written up a proper report because it was mostly rather dull. However, the

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