Defend Council Housing: Local campaign material

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Producing local material for tenants
It is crucial that tenants hear both sides of the debate. The council will give tenants the hard sell promoting privatisation. DCH can help you produce a local campaign newspaper or leaflet that combines specific information relating to the financial position of council housing in your area, the views of local tenants, councillors and unions and some of the key arguments and background information. Below are some examples of material that we have helped local campaigns produce. If your council is pushing transfer, PFI or ALMO get in touch.

Manchester Burnage (transfer)

Newspaper (Jan 2007)

Liverpool (transfer)
Leaflet, poster and advert (March 2007)

Brighton & Hove (transfer)
Newspaper (Jan 2007)

Taunton Deane (transfer)
newspaper (Oct 2006)

Edinburgh (transfer)
newspaper (Nov 2005)

Waverley (transfer)
leaflet (Oct 2005)

Sedgefield (transfer)
Newspaper (Feb 2005)

Clapham Park (transfer)
A3 leaflet (Feb 2005)

Ellesmere Port (transfer)
Newspaper (Feb 2005)

Wrexham adverts (transfer)

1st advert

2nd advert

3rd advert

4th advert

Stockport (transfer)

DCH local leaflet

Stockport Labour Party leaflet Page 1 Page 2 Page 3 Page 4.

Tower Hamlets (transfer)

Ocean Estate (Oct 2005)

Leopold Estate (Feb 2005)

10 THINGS THEY DON'T TELL YOU ABOUT HARCA leaflet used on the doorstep during campaign
HARCA Campaign Summary - month by month account of what the campaign did...

Camden 2007/8
Demanding direct investment against partial 'regeneration'
Four page newspaper

Open letter signed by tenants reps

Posters up on estates

Camden Stand Up For Council Housing poster

Camden (ALMO)
'No to ALMOs' T shirts, stickers and balloons available!

2nd 4 page Broadsheet (Nov 2003).

Poster Vote No to ALMO two-stage privatisation(Sept 2003).

Leaflet Vote No to ALMO general arguments (Sept 2003).

Postcards to councillors and MPs (Sept 2003).

Tenants' statement Tenants demand fair and balanced debate (June 2003).

No to Shadow Board Poster urging tenants not to vote for Shadow Board (July 2003).

Local support Signatories to above statement (June 2003).

ALMO Briefing A3 Briefing for TA reps (April 2003).

4 page broadsheet front and

back 35,000 copies being distributed to every home (June 2003). low res files

Leaflet against proposed ALMO Camden DCH first leaflet responding to council proposals to investigate ALMOs.

To the Editor Using letters page of local paper to report on successful first meeting of the Camden DCH campaign

Letter to TAs Making sure the campaign was open, democratic and accountable from the start

Warning to candidates in 1998 local election First example of getting lots of TA reps to sign up publically to campaign statement

Open letter welcoming climbdown This letter was submitted to the Council's own Housing News as our response to the Labour Group's decision, just before local elections, to back off transfer. They never printed the letter but were forced to mention that 40+ TA reps had signed a letter

No demolition Open letter to local press signed by TA reps

Anti demolition leaflet Text version of TA leaflet against demolition proposals

Resolution against PFI scheme Case against PFI and using council consultative forum as one part of the campaign strategy

Haringey (ALMO)
Newspaper against ALMO (Feb 2005)

Southend (ALMO)
Leaflet against ALMO October 2004

Posters

Hackney's post transfer experience
Useful Hackney stories and quotes

Cambridge Tenants Against Privatisation (CTAP) Various Window Posters...
1 DON'T LET THEM CON YOU INTO THINKING THEY KNOW WHAT THEY ARE DOING!!! STICK WITH THE COUNCIL VOTE NO !!! TO HOUSING TRANSFER
2 DON'T KNOW? THEN VOTE NO!!! TO THE HOUSING TRANSFER THERE IS NO RETURN TO THE COUNCIL
3 DON'T BE A TURKEY VOTING FOR CHRISTMAS VOTE NO!!! TO HOUSING SELL OFF
4 OUR HOMES ARE NOT FOR SALE VOTE NO TO HOUSING SELL OFF !!!

Cartoons
Thanks to "Tim" - his spring collection of cartoons for local DCH leaflets and posters...
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