Bolton Anarchist Housing Collective (BA//HC) is a self-help community housing group based in Bolton.
We offer help, support and advise to others in the area wishing to join us, but we are NOT a members club.
We see squatting as a solution to homelessness, empty properties, speculation and building unnecessary new homes on greenfield sites. It provides homes for those who can't get public housing and who can't afford extortionate rents.
With the selling off of council housing, relentless privatisation of public assets to greedy individuals and private companies, general corruption and incompetence of many housing associations and councils, it has become necessity for many of us.
Squatting creates space for needed community projects. These have included art projects, community computing projects, childcare/nursery projects and much more. Autonomous spaces are necessary in an atomised society where many of our community resources, such as community centres and buildings, housing advice services etc. have been sold off or have taken over by elitist groups with their own agenda.
Squatting means taking control instead of being pushed around by bureacrats and property owners.
We see squatting as part of a wider class struggle, part of the fight against capitalism, the state and all forms of hierarchy.
We also like to drink.
