AN OPEN LETTER TO STEVE DOWNES, EDP.

Posted on March 4, 2018 by Norwich Radical in Community and tagged accommodation, advice, anon street team, barriers, charities, City, Community, crisis, Eastern Daily Press, edp, exclusion, featured, foodcycle, grassroots, Haymarket, homeless, homelessness, hot meals, housing pressure, isolation, mental health, mental illness, norfolk, norwich, Norwich City Council, norwich foodcycle, Norwich Soup Movement, poverty, private landlords, rough sleepers, Shelter, social exclusion, soup kitchens, stereotypes, steve downes, stigma, The People's Picnic, unemployment, vulnerable, zero hour contracts.

by Eli Lambe

No, Soup Kitchens are not making Norwich’s “Homelessness problem” worse. It might seem that way to you, if you’re used to brushing the vulnerable off and not having to see the reality of more and more people’s lives. The easy solution – and the one that your newspaper and the local police like to peddle – is to force rough sleepers and vulnerable people out to the fringes of the city, where they’re cut off from their community and support and, most importantly it seems, you don’t have to see them.

What makes you think that your walking past the Haymarket every so often qualifies you to write about the lives of the people in the queue?Continue Reading

PRICE HIKES AND RENT STRIKES – SOLVING THE UEA ACCOMMODATION CRISIS

Posted on April 14, 2017 by Norwich Radical in Student and tagged accommodation, bunk beds, david richardson, direct action, league tables, lobbying, lower income backgrounds, petitions, price hikes, private renting, profit, rent, rent strikes, student accommodation, student activism, student life, student loans, student satisfaction survey, student unions, students, teaching staff, UCL, UCL cut the rent, UEA, UEA Vision 2030, university, university courses, university management, university rankings, zero hour contracts.

By Robyn Banks

Whist chatting to a friend last week I found myself looking at the price of accommodation at UEA for the next academic year. I found that the prices are set to rise yet again, with the price of the most expensive undergraduate accommodation reaching over £5800 a year, or £153.30 per week if you want your shocks in smaller weekly doses rather than one big lump.

TREATED LIKE ROYALTY — WHY I TRULY APPRECIATE UEA

Posted on February 12, 2017 by Norwich Radical in Community, Student and tagged accommodation, campus, cost of education, higher education, monarchy, norwich, Queen, rent, rent prices, response article, royal illusion, study, teaching, tuition fees, UEA, university.

by James Anthony

In response to Lewis Martin’s article ‘Don’t Be Fooled by the Royal Illusion – The Failings of UEA.’

The Queen’s recent visit to the University of East Anglia was, in my opinion, rightly celebrated as a momentous occasion in the university’s history. I might not be hugely pro-monarchy, but I am definitely pro-UEA, and I could appreciate the enthusiasm and atmosphere on campus on the day of Her Majesty’s arrival. I followed the event closely on social media and thought it brought a sense of enjoyment and happiness to a cold January day, with large a crowd turning out to celebrate not only the Queen, but the university as an institution too, which was great to see. However, I found it interesting that not everyone saw it that way.Continue Reading

NUS JOINS THE FIGHT AND BACKS RENT STRIKES

Posted on August 19, 2016 by Norwich Radical in Student and tagged A level, accommodation, accommodation costs, campus, consumers, DIY space, Golden Triangle, Houses of Multiple Occupancy, housing, london, National Union of Students, norwich, Norwich City Council, NUS, rent costs, rent strikes, results, results day, students, UCL, universities, university.

by Robyn Banks

It was announced yesterday under the cloud of A-level results that the National Union of Students (NUS) has given full backing to the rent strikes that have been happening at numerous universities up and down the country. Their reasoning behind this is that due to the rise of living in university housing on campus or other university owned places, it has almost become a secondary set of fees on top of the already high tuition fees.Continue Reading

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PRICE HIKES AND RENT STRIKES – SOLVING THE UEA ACCOMMODATION CRISIS

TREATED LIKE ROYALTY — WHY I TRULY APPRECIATE UEA

NUS JOINS THE FIGHT AND BACKS RENT STRIKES

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