Gareth Stevens considers the winners and losers of gentrification Even though I have used both the terms DfL (Down from London) and OfB (Over from Brighton) from time to time … I try not to. Both labels are lazy, reductive and divisive. Whenever people use either term in a pejorative way, they redirect fire which…
Gareth Stevens “Without community, politics is dead. But communities have been scattered like dust in the wind. At work, at home, both practically and imaginatively, we are atomised.” George Monbiot What do we even mean by the word Community these days? What does it mean to be a Hastinger – and do you have to…
Merlin Betts Hastings Housing Alliance has been formed to start fixing our local housing crisis from the ground up. But let’s not forget the lesson to be learned here: who can we trust to look after our housing, guaranteeing fair prices and good maintenance? Ourselves! Pictured above: 4 December launch day at the Observer Building,…
Merlin Betts Voting time on Acorn’s launch day at His Place Community Centre. Acorn is like a trade union that can represent people regardless of trade, especially renters. We need that in a town with rising rents and a housing crisis. They also lobby on related things that matter to us, like cost of living….
Lizzie Beck I’m not from these parts. Neither am I DFL, AFB, EDL or WTF. I didn’t actually choose to come here either, I was moved here for reasons that if revealed would result in assassination (of whom I don’t know). It was nighttime when I first saw this town. From a hill above what…
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…