Every human being wants and needs a roof over their head. A good quality, affordable, safe and secure home should be a basic human right – but isn’t in contemporary Britain.
Communists have a long and proud history of organising housing struggles in Britain.
The growth of tenants and community unions across Britain has been one of the most exciting and encouraging developments in recent years.
Access to housing is an important and sharpening area of class struggle in Britain From rising rents to homelessness and the lack of social housing, the clear and easily identifiable nature of the exploitation and its already rampant and accelerating levels have seen an increasingly class conscious understanding of this issue among working people.
The Communist Party’s Housing Commission was established out of the Party’s Centenary celebrations in 2020. It has developed the Party’s housing policy set out in the Housing Charter and subsequent pamphlet ‘Homes for the People, Not the Profiteers’.
The Housing Commission involves comrades and specialists from every District and Nation who have a background in housing, construction and activism. It exists to promote the development of a housing policy designed to meet the needs of the population, rather than the profit motive of private developers and landowners.
The Commission provides advice and recommendations to the Executive Committee on housing policy development and responses to government initiatives on house building and planning policy and feeds into the work of other commissions.
For more information about how to contact the Housing Commission, access the Members Area.
