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Description: | Terry Fitzpatrick was a builder and political activist in the East End in the 1970s. Here, in conversation with Jamil Iqbal of the Swadhinata Trust, he describes the housing situation in Tower Hamlets with the arrival of the Bangladeshi community. In particular, he describes the unofficial solution many people found to housing problems - squatting in unoccupied buildings. Here, he details how the squatting of large buildings by groups of Bangladeshi families was organised. He also explains why people were often driven to squat because of their initial placement in unsafe areas. | License: | http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/2.5/ | Publisher: | Bishopsgate Institute | Rights holder: | Swadhinata Trust | Subjects: | Migration and Citizenship Public services Communities Power and Politics | Temporal: | 2006 | Source: | Bishopsgate Institute | Identifier: | http://www.20thcenturylondon.org.uk/rser... | Go to resource |
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