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No. 16 – Wake Up to information, national and international, about Home

By February 2, 2019February 20th, 2019Wake Up
  • The forecast worldwide is that that owning a house is the prerequisite of the wealthy
  • In London 1,137 people sleep rough on average, every night
  • Sleeping rough shortens lives to average 47 as opposed to the national norm of 77 years.
  • Every year, year on year, failure to tackle the supply system ratchets up the pressure on English housing. Many more families will suffer from over- crowding, more families will struggle with rising rents and larger mortgages, fewer young people under 30 will be able to leave the parental home. Shelter.
  • Truth about property developers: how they are exploiting the planning process and ruining our cities –  HERE 
  • ‘No (Mrs May) -the housing crisis will not be solved by building more houses.The Crisis is the result of banking failure’ –  HERE
  •  Grenfell Tower – HERE
  • Global figures: likely be 1.3 billion without Houses. UN Sustainable Development goals at best over- ambitious, at worst DELUSIONAL.
  • Medellin, Colombia: remaking the world’s most dangerous city. The remarkable example of change happening because of radical leadership – HERE
  • AND AT THE FRONT OF OUR MINDS..MIGRANT data – dead / missing crossing the Mediterranean 2016: 5,143. 2017: 3,139. 2018: 2,297.
  • AND INSECT loss, internationally …up to 85% . Primarily because of destruction of their habitat by the human species