Residents of temporary hostel protest at conditions with giant syringe, kids as mice, umbrella as bedbug and banner. Hackney
Residents from the Alexandra Court 'temporary' accommodation hostel in Stoke Newington, London, marched with members of the London Coalition Against Poverty to Hackney Town Hall on Saturday 12 April, 2008 to demand the council keep their promises to make temporary accommodation safe to live in. As well as bed bugs, residents at the hostel also complain about mice and rats, and the filthy state of the corridors, often used by addicts and prostitutes, and littered with syringes, used condoms and blood. Hostel rooms only have flimsy locks, easily forced, and there is no lock at all on the outside gate to keep out intruders. Heating and hot water seldom work and residents are often kept awake for hours by fire alarms ringing through the middle of the night. Despite high payments for rooms - up to £350 a week, the management has failed to meet its promises to make improvements, and the council has also failed to take action. The residents asked for support and the LCAP assisted them in organising Saturday's demonstration, with around 50 people marching from the hostel to Hackney Town Hall where they hoped to meet council representatives.
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Location: Stoke Newington, London N16, England, UK
Photo credit: © Peter Marshall / Alamy / Afripics
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Keywords: accommodation, addicts, bed, blood, bugs, coalition, conditions, condoms, demonstration, filth, hackney, hostel, lcap, living, london, march, mice, poor, poverty, prostitution, protest, squalor, syringes, temporary
