Focus E15

Focus E15
Named afterFocus E15 Hostel
Formation2013
Founded atFocus E15 Hostel
TypeHousing action group
PurposeHousing rights
Location
  • Newham, London
Websitefocuse15.org

Focus E15 is a campaign group formed in London in 2013 by a group of mothers threatened with eviction from their emergency accommodation in a hostel for young homeless people in Newham. The group squatted empty flats on the Carpenters Estate in Stratford in September 2014, drawing widespread attention in the mainstream media. Most of the young women were eventually rehoused within the borough, as they had requested. Having won their own battle, they have continued to protest both against the local housing policy of Newham Council and for housing rights more generally. They have done so by occupying various buildings and supporting different individual struggles.


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