We're asking you to email Homes For Haringey and tell them to move our member X and her family from their unsafe temporary accommodation immediately.

Homes for Haringey know the urgency of the situation, but have failed to act. X has been raising concerns about the living conditions ever since she moved into the property two years ago. We've been supporting her to do this since we met her last year (see our website for more.) In November 2020, Haringey finally acknowledged that the accommodation was unsuitable. Yet, three months later, the family are still waiting for suitable rehousing. The only action Haringey have taken is to offer her a property with the same damp and mould health hazards as her current home.

Last year Haringey declared their support for Black Lives Matter, but are they putting it into practice or is it just words? Have they investigated how many Black immigrant families are living in unsafe conditions in their own borough? Haringey encourages private landlords to leave their houses in unlivable conditions, but forces families to keep living there. Why are they tolerating this?

Have they considered how their treatment of Black children damages their physical and mental health, affects their education and teaches them from a young age that they don't deserve a decent home? Have they asked children how it feels to be living in bad housing? Haringey must act now to secure young people's futures.

X's 11 year old son says 'I am shy to show my house during my school Zoom meetings. I put a background every single time but others don’t, they show their house because it is good but ours is terrible. I seriously don't know what I done for me and my family to be living in a bad house. There is no joy in my family'. We're asking Haringey to bring back the family's joy and find them suitable housing. We're also asking them to make sure that no other family is put through this kind of hell. No human deserves to live this way.