Creating a new Gibraltar, together
A summer Sunday, and while most of Gibraltar is on one beach or other, a handful of men and a couple of women trudge their few possessions out of the Retreat Centre. By the time this piece is published, they will have been evicted from this shelter and onto the streets of Gibraltar. With any …
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Thinking about what housing in Gibraltar means, and what homelessness in Gibraltar means
By Guest Contributor, David King A conversation after The Scandal on Our Doorstep Some weeks ago, in the midst of a Spring thunderstorm, we evicted sixteen men from the hall where we had sheltered ourselves from their pandemic. Your priority was protecting your health and your loved ones’. The sixteen had that too, and with …
It is a troubling, stormy afternoon as I settle down to write this piece. Outside my relatively water-proof sea-facing windows the sky is an ominous shade of purple slicked with yellow; a bruise across the landscape, squatting thick and malevolent on the Rock. Malevolent. It seems an appropriate word to spring to mind on the …
It has been some months since I last posted on this blog. I wanted to step back from the flurry of activity of the general election campaign and observe to see what positive changes, if any, were being made to our society by the Government, a GSLP/Liberal Alliance government that had won a third term, …
“On Thursday 17th October, the polls open and Gibraltar can make its decision on who should run the government. The wheels of democracy are turning, and it is joyful to be part of it. “
“There is a frisson of fear rippling through our community. There are simply some words that we don’t like to hear. Like “corruption” and “poverty”. We don’t like to speak those words publicly because if we do, then we have to acknowledge that just possibly these things exist and then we would need to do something about it. There is another word that no-one likes to use. No, not Brexit, although the fear-mongering from the current administration is as impressive as it is irresponsible.”
“It is perfectly possible for Government to ensure that private rental housing is of a good standard, within the reach of a variety of income households by working closely with private landlords to help them make sure they can run their businesses properly, freeing them up from rent controls while supporting, caring for and rehousing into government homes, those tenants who are currently living in appalling slum conditions. “
“Together Gibraltar’s approach to policy and strategy is holistic, participative and comprehensive. We will deliver a fully thought out system that will grow and develop for the long term because we will do this in a consultative manner that will make sure that Gibraltar learns from the best, applies best practise at all levels and best serves our young people generation after generation.”
“Together Gibraltar is committed to ensuring that we all have a chance to live in decent homes that we can truly afford. There is a better way that we can all believe in.”
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