This is an important opportunity for a wide range of London community and activist organisations to meet and strengthen their responses to the housing policy proposals set out by the GLA in their draft.

Consultations close on 7 December. By then all the organisations, tenants' groups, homeless campaigns, local and London-wide groups need to prepare their responses and Just Space will be putting together a collective response covering demands and comments on which there is wide agreement. This event will determine what goes into the Just Space response.

The Mayor’s draft is available in full (230 pages), in an executive summary (19 pages) and in an ‘easy-read version’

https://www.london.gov.uk/what-we-do/housing-and-land/have-your-say-tackling-londons-housing-crisis

In the Housing Strategy policies cover:

• How the GLA interacts with tenants
• Inclusive neighbourhoods
• Subsidies the GLA can make to various kinds of housing development - at various rent levels or for part-buy
• Proposals for releasing public land and privately held land for housing
• Estate renewal and ‘regeneration’
• Council Housing provided by Boroughs
• Housing Association and other ‘registered providers’ of social housing
• Privately-rented housing, rents and security; registration of landlords and agents
• Homelessness and rough sleeping
• Needs of distinct groups in the population including gypsies and travellers, other equalities groups
• Support for community initiatives, co-housing, co-ops, land trusts and so on
• Needs for supported housing; needs of an ageing population and potentiality for down-sizing
• Needs for homes of appropriate sizes for individuals, families and other groups

This conference will provide workshop opportunities to discuss many of these topics in detail, as well as plenary sessions.

More details will circulate nearer the time to those who make a reservation. The event is free and is co-sponsored by a research team at UCL who will be assisting with one of the workshops (on estate renewal). Lunch and refreshments will be provided.

When you reserve a place, please say what group you are from and, if you can, your choice of main housing topic(s)