Join us for our next public meeting on Thursday, March 13th at 7pm in Methodists Central Hall (The Collier Room - scroll down for access info)!
A housing system in crisis: record levels of homelessness, spiralling rents, housing conditions so poor that they're killing children. What has led us here? How can we understand what's going on with housing as a systemic problem built into capitalism as we know it?
In this meeting, housing activist and rs21 member Kate will introduce us to a "social reproduction" approach to housing, drawn from Marxist theories about how ruling class interests shape people's lives outside of their role as workers. She will consider how the housing crisis creates a contradiction for capital: on the one hand, it destabilises the workforce and leads to calls for higher wages, but on the other, it creates record profits for rentiers. She will ask: how can we work together in the housing movement to change the balance of power?
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Access info
It will be in the Collier Room on the first floor.
Methodists Central Hall has step-free access. There is a wheelchair lift next to the steps at the main entrance on Oldham Street, and a lift to the first floor on the left as you enter the building's reception area.
There is an accessible toilet.
Message us if you need further info!