- Conference
- 2025 National Black Members' Conference
- Date
- 6 September 2024
- Decision
- Carried
HOUSING CRISIS
Conference the past 14 years of Conservative policies have left disadvantaged, Black marginalised communities in despair. This has resulted in Black communities including Pakistani, Bangladeshi, Somalia with extended inter-generational families experiencing a housing crisis.
This situation has caused Black families to endure unnecessary overcrowding of living conditions. Indeed many Black households which consist of 5, 6, 7+ family members are having to live in 2 bedroom houses.
Black families in particular communities only have a single bread winner who is most likely employed in precarious employment e.g. temporary, agency. These employment circumstances inevitably lead to those families earning low incomes barely above the poverty line threshold.
We, therefore, call on the NBMC to:-
1)Work with the Labour Link to raise awareness about Black communities living in overcrowded households.
2)Produce an article highlighting tenants’ rights and how they can access their particular rights, recourse to legal steps including access to legal supports.
