{"id":1751,"date":"2014-10-07T15:02:56","date_gmt":"2014-10-07T14:02:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/unitelive.org\/?p=1751"},"modified":"2014-10-08T14:27:43","modified_gmt":"2014-10-08T13:27:43","slug":"housing-fight-goes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/?p=1751","title":{"rendered":"Housing fight goes on"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"fb-root\"><\/div>\n<p>Speaking to the Focus E15 mothers today as they pack up and move out of the property on the Carpenter\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s estate they have occupied for the past three weeks, UNITElive was told that the occupation was only ever meant to be temporary.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>\u00e2\u20ac\u015bThe campaign has been incredibly successful and has achieved so much like highlighting the simple solution to Newham\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s housing crisis and the bigger housing crisis right across London,\u00e2\u20ac\u0165 said a campaign spokesperson.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>\u00e2\u20ac\u015bThis is the beginning of the end of the housing crisis,\u00e2\u20ac\u0165 he added.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The group of young, single mothers claimed victory last week when Newham council dropped plans to evict them from Stratford\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Carpenter\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s estate.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>During their occupation of the property on the estate the only contact they had from the council was a visit from them to turn off the water and electricity supply.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Newham council had plans to demolish the estate near The Queen Elizabeth Olympics\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 park to cash in on the value of the land. However 24,000 households in the borough are waiting for somewhere to live.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>\u00e2\u20ac\u015bThe \u00e2\u20ac\u015bspotlight\u00e2\u20ac\u0165 on Stratford must be turned into a \u00e2\u20ac\u015bfloodlight\u00e2\u20ac\u0165 on London\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s housing crisis,\u00e2\u20ac\u0165 Said Robin Wales, Newham Mayor. \u00e2\u20ac\u015bThe lack of housing supply, the conservative governments barbaric benefit bashing and the private rented sector\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s spiralling rents and declining standards are a triple whammy.\u00e2\u20ac\u0165<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The campaign doesn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t end here. Stay tuned to UNITElive for further updates on the E15 mothers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Speaking to the Focus E15 mothers today as they pack up and move out of the property on the Carpenter\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s estate they have occupied for the past three weeks, UNITElive was told that the occupation was only ever meant to be temporary. &nbsp; \u00e2\u20ac\u015bThe campaign has been incredibly successful and has achieved so much like [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1753,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[109,76],"wps_subtitle":"E15 fight \u00e2\u20ac\u201c not over yet","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1751"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1751"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1751\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1765,"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1751\/revisions\/1765"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1753"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1751"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1751"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1751"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}