The Take Back the City (TBTC) campaign was formed in 2019 to develop sustainable solutions to Belfast’s housing crisis. We are a coalition which includes families in housing need supported by experts in architecture, urban planning, housing policy, technology, communications, permaculture, human rights and equality. We believe we can build a better Belfast - a city that’s not divided by barriers, where everyone has a home.
Coalition members include the Town and Country Planning Association, Queen’s University Belfast, Professor Kelvin MacDonald, Director of Studies in Land Economy at Christ’s College, Cambridge and Specialist Adviser on planning policy to the House of Commons Levelling Up, Housing, Communities Select Committee, GROW NI, Gairdín an Phobail, Forthspring Inter Community Group and a number of developers. The campaign is co-ordinated by Participation and the Practice of Rights PPR, a community organising human rights NGO founded in 2007 by the late Inez McCormack. Our work is supported by the Oak Foundation’s Housing and Homelessness Fund and the Northern Ireland Human Rights Fund.
Our focus is the use of vacant, publicly owned land to address the continuing political failures which have led to the current housing crisis. We work to address policies and practices in housing which reinforce sectarianism and segregation, worsen climate change, ignore homelessness by massaging statistics and prioritise a ‘private sector first’ agenda for housing.
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The Take Back the City (TBTC) campaign was formed in 2019 to develop sustainable solutions to Belfast’s housing crisis. We are a coalition which includes families in housing need supported by experts in architecture, urban planning, housing policy, technology, communications, permaculture, human rights and equality. We believe we can build a better Belfast - a city that’s not divided by barriers, where everyone has a home.
Coalition members include the Town and Country Planning Association, Queen’s University Belfast, Professor Kelvin MacDonald, Director of Studies in Land Economy at Christ’s College, Cambridge and Specialist Adviser on planning policy to the House of Commons Levelling Up, Housing, Communities Select Committee, GROW NI, Gairdín an Phobail, Forthspring Inter Community Group and a number of developers. The campaign is co-ordinated by Participation and the Practice of Rights PPR, a community organising human rights NGO founded in 2007 by the late Inez McCormack. Our work is supported by the Oak Foundation’s Housing and Homelessness Fund and the Northern Ireland Human Rights Fund.
Our focus is the use of vacant, publicly owned land to address the continuing political failures which have led to the current housing crisis. We work to address policies and practices in housing which reinforce sectarianism and segregation, worsen climate change, ignore homelessness by massaging statistics and prioritise a ‘private sector first’ agenda for housing.