Hi Sally
Thanks for your post. I would be very interested in seeing your report. I work at the Australian psychological society in Melbourne and we are always looking for good evidence to support our claims around a whole host of issues - housing and homelessness being one.
All the best
Harriet
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> On 5 Dec. 2016, at 10:38 pm, Sally Zlotowitz <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
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> Dear all
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> Thanks for the interesting conversation re clinical, community and critical psychology discussion - I don't have anything new or extra to say but I do appreciate people taking time to explain different positions and their implications.
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> I wanted to promote a new research report called 'Homelessness, health and housing: participatory action research in East London' which is a project involving researchers from Leeds and Sheffield and the Focus E15 housing activists. They used PAR methodology to understand the impact of Newham Council's social housing policies on individuals, families and communities.
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> http://www.leeds.ac.uk/news/article/3950/the_vulnerability_of_social_housing_policies
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> Please email me if you want a copy of the report - it's not available on the internet to download yet.
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> I was lucky enough to speak at the launch of this report in London with my Psychologists Against Austerity hat on and wanted to emphasise how important this campaign and the findings are in relation to exposing links between structural power issues, housing and mental health. I am sure this is well known to most of you but in relation to the specifics of Newham (the 2012 'Olympic' Borough) and Focus E15...
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> Debt Resistance UK described Newham Council's outrageous financial mismanagement at the report launch:
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> http://lada.debtresistance.uk/newham-king-casino-councils/
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> resulting in 80% of Newham resident's council tax is going simply to finance the interest on these loans - money going directly to corporate banks who are hugely profiting from this:
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> https://you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/tell-newham-council-we-want-our-money-back-from-barclays-and-rbs
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> The council then transfer their lack of money to cuts to services and to their residents by pushing out people living in supported accommodation and social housing into other areas of the UK and having a knock on impact on people's social support network and mental health. A high number of the people that the activists interviewed as part of the PAR project reported suicidal ideation and mental health came out as a surprisingly important finding for them. Consequently, they have been running a 'Housing is a Mental Health issue' campaign that we are doing our best to support.
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> http://www.redpepper.org.uk/housing-is-a-mental-health-issue/
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> I would like to organise an event in Feb/March for psychologists, practitioners and anyone else to learn from the Focus E15 group and to promote the PAR report and find ways of supporting their campaign to expose the links between structural power, housing and mental health. I also thought we could invite members of housing cooperatives along to talk about the benefits of coops for health, community and the undermining of corporate power and buy-to-let landlords.
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> Would anyone be interesting in helping with this or is already doing something along these lines?
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> Thanks so much
> Sally
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