Words: SGH Image: Hastings Rental Health’s new plot.A co-op isn’t just a weird little group of people opting out of wearing shoes together, it’s a collective making a joint decision that something would work much better without any self appointed, self-entitled whoevers exploiting us or doling out unnecessary orders from upon high. Cooperativism is co-operating…
SGH has been attending the Hastings Housing Strategy steering group for the last 10 months. With co-writers Grace L and Ethan, they highlight fundamental issues with the Strategy, and ask just how useful is an ‘even-handed’ approach to tenants and landlords while we’re in a housing crisis directly caused by landlording? Featured artwork by Chris…
Sarah Gomes Harris Marry me Finally a proposal finally of finallys Marry me I sayI shout Empassioned Caught up from courting the unknown brushing misreadings until it WAS known billboard after billboard of years of strange sexual chemistry With a semidetached house The house knew it I knew it But we daren’t admit it to…
Sarah Gomes Harris co-founder of Hastings Rental Health, considers the very real consequences of living in a home that’s never allowed to be a home. “The sky hangs over us dark and low, like a dirty screen, on which the clouds are fighting fierce battles. That’s what our houses are for – to protect us…