On 12 September 2022 I'm setting off on a five day walk from North Hertfordshire to 10 Downing Street to deliver a simple message to the new Prime Minister: Stop talking…and listen to us!
We all deserve to have our voices heard by the politicians that are supposed to represent us. The next months and years seem really scary for most of us, and it’s difficult to see how future generations could possibly achieve a good life for themselves. Something desperately needs to change. Unfortunately, those in power in the UK are distracted and not actually listening to us…read more
Something needs to be done about the housing market. For the last 8 weeks, my two prospective housemates and I have been putting offers on houses only to find out we have been outbid by other tenants. It can not be right for landlords to be working in the manner of an auction house. We started with a budget of 2,100pcm and it has been pushed up to 2,500pcm, which we would completely struggle to afford. It can’t be possible that after we pass all the referencing we are being outbid for properties which were put out on the market for 1,900pcm. We have had estate agents tell us that the housing market has had on average a 30-40% increase on properties in the past couple of months and we would need to increase our budgets (How?) in order to find a place. We have been looking in locations further out in London, as far as Woolwich, Wimbledon and are still unable to secure ourselves somewhere to live. I am lucky that I have an auntie and uncle in Greenwich that have let me stay with them, but it seems infeasible for people in other situations (students etc) to be able to find somewhere to live? Something needs to be done for peoples security in terms of housing and it needs to be done now!