November 21st the Berlin Tenant Community (BMG) organized an event with Eileen Short from Defend Council Housing / Anti bedroom tax campaign and Paul Watt from Birkbeck University, both from in London. They reported about the housing crisis in England and the biggest anti-cut protests since many years against the bedroom tax. The group documented the event both in English and German, find the links below:
– Paul Watt about housing supply, city regeneration and housing construction in England: http://youtu.be/Br-vqRPy38s
– Eileen Short about the protests against the bedroom tax: http://youtu.be/25XbV0PwXyQ
– Additions about the bedroom tax from Eileen Short and Paul Watt: http://youtu.be/DGxp54MAsSE
– Subtitled video clip I: Protest against the eviction of the Counihan-Sanchez family in Brent, London: http://youtu.be/HWfrqZHEFbA
– Subtitled video clip II: Protest against a housing conference in Manchester and petition against the bedroom tax: http://youtu.be/tC6jrcj2APs
– Both subtitled video clips in one file: http://youtu.be/dn5pxkwVc70
The documentation of the other events so far can be found here, mostly in German: http://www.youtube.com/WohneninderKrise
And more infos in German: http://www.bmgev.de/politik/wohnen-in-der-krise.html