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No sanctions – no targets – action at Wood Green job centre

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No sanctions – no targets – action at Wood Green job centre

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by Janette Evans When I first got the idea for Barnet Housing Action Group to hold a protest outside the job centre in Wood Green – it was for very personal reasons; my daughter had moved into the hostel at the Y.M.C.A. and I had got to know a few of the young people there […]

Life and eviction at the YMCA

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Life and eviction at the YMCA

by Janette Ewans I was shocked today to see a post on my face book page about eviction resistance at the Y.M.C.A. in Crouch End – for two reasons – my own daughter has been living there for the past 2 months and also although I have been involved in activism specifically around housing and […]

“Shame on Hugh” not our Barnet mayor

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“Shame on Hugh” not our Barnet mayor

by Janette Evans   Barnet Housing Action Group with members of our west Hendon and BAPS greeted the mayor outside the AGM at MIND on 21 July. Barnet Tory Mayor – Hugh Raynor – sat on the housing scheme committee that decided they would pay £3,000 to landlords that rented ‘spare rooms’ without disclosing he was […]