Reported in today’s Guardian
http://www.guardian.co.uk/g2/story/0,3604,1660371,00.html
I’ve been in the squat a few times in the last week to lend my support….as have plenty of other professionals, new media types, artists…hang on it’s the ‘gentrifyers against gentrification’! (this strange phenomenon seems very commonplace – tourists who don’t want to go anywhere touristy – white middle class grime fans who don’t want to events populated by white middle class grime fans (!), but that’s a whole other debate). As someone tainted by working in the regeneration industry I can perhaps understand some of the wider pressures that Hackney Council (from Govt and council tax payers) was under to balance their books. But I don’t see any excuse to leave these community-valued businesses ruined in favour of unscrupulous property developers with no connection to the area.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/g2/story/0,3604,1660371,00.html
I’ve been in the squat a few times in the last week to lend my support….as have plenty of other professionals, new media types, artists…hang on it’s the ‘gentrifyers against gentrification’! (this strange phenomenon seems very commonplace – tourists who don’t want to go anywhere touristy – white middle class grime fans who don’t want to events populated by white middle class grime fans (!), but that’s a whole other debate). As someone tainted by working in the regeneration industry I can perhaps understand some of the wider pressures that Hackney Council (from Govt and council tax payers) was under to balance their books. But I don’t see any excuse to leave these community-valued businesses ruined in favour of unscrupulous property developers with no connection to the area.