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Housing & Homelessness

A large number of the videos in the archive focus on housing, with some of the earliest uses of community video being for this purpose–used to highlight poor living conditions and challenge housing authorities. This collection focuses on different housing problems and the ways people used video to respond. It features documentation of organising and action by tenants in North Kensington, Deptford and Camden, including Pepys Estate Community Association and the squatters’ Residents Association on Prince of Wales Crescent. Interviews with young and Black homeless people reveal encounters with local services and initiatives set up to support them, such as UJIMAA Housing Association, Centrepoint, the Longstop Project, Threshold Centre, and Stopover Lewisham. The collection also includes a recorded theatre production by the Second Wave Young Women’s Group. The collection covers topics such as: residents’ meetings; life on estates; facilities; community events; disrepair; the council; homelessness among young and Black people; lack of affordable housing; barriers to employment and welfare; co-ops; and squatting. Featured titles include Squat Now Whilst Stocks Last; Black Homelessness; Murcheson Tenants; and A Place of My Own, or Young People, Housing and Homelessness.

Pepys Estate - Organising

Pepys Estate Repairs Campaign

Forming A Residents Association

A Place of My Own, or Young People, Housing and Homelessness (Parts 1 & 2)

Downham — A home in the country

Open Door: East End Channel 1

Black Homelessness

Squat Now Whilst Stocks Last — Excerpt

Chiswick Women's Aid

A Netful of Holes

Murcheson Tenants

Swinbrook Re-development

Party at the dairy on Prince of Wales Crescent post eviction 1975

Prince of Wales Crescent Deserted 1976

Windsor Free Festival TV Coverage 1974

220 Camden High Street

Maureen and Kids in Bnb 1974

Prince of Wales Road Squatters Painting Building on the Corner 1974

Dr John Eviction 1974 pt.1

Dr John Eviction 1974 pt.2

Dover Street Squats 1974

Castle Road 1974

Turner Lecture on Planning and Construction 1974 Part 2

POWCRA Meeting Camera Sharing 1973

POWCRA Plans for Communal Living 1973

Maureen Softly and Sue Hall Interview Each Other 1974

GC and Baby Eviction from St Leonard Square 1974

St Leonard Square Eviction 1974

84 Bartholomew Rd IV: Interview with two Squatters 1973

Bartholomew Road, Squat Visit 1973

Annette Collins Eviction, Guilden Road 1972

CASECOM Meeting 1973

84 Bartholomew Road 1973

POWCRA Meeting about Planning: Working Together 1974

Councillor of Camden and Cat Interview 1974

POWCRA Flowchart Meeting 1974

Gingerbread Interview 1974

Camden Family Service Unit 1974

GC and Peter IV on being evicted with kids 1974

Burnt Out Squat 1974

Housing Interview in Kentish Town 1973

Crankshaft Grinders 1974

Town Hall Picket 1974

Town Hall Picket 1974

School Play 1974

All London Squatters Meeting 1973

Camden Communist Party Meeting 1973

Council Protest pt.2 1973

Guilden Rd Evictions pt1 and council protest 1973

Homeless & Squatters Solidarity Meeting at the Law Centre 1973

Bartholomew Rd Squatter Interview 1973

Bartholomew Rd ext and interviews 1973

PoW Road Sign and Voice Over 1974

Turner Lecture on Planning and Construction 1974

Single Mother Squatters 1973

Polytantric & Exhibition 1973

Hoppy and Sue editing in Swindon 1976

POWC Protest 1976

POWC Days after Final Clearance 1976

POWC final clearance 1976

POWCRA Formation Meeting 1973

POWCRA formation meeting Introduction video 1973

Prince of Wales Squat Key Presentation

Justice in the Court

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