Truro campaigners to take part in visual protest against Cornwall's housing crisis

It comes after similar actions this year in St Agnes and Porthtowan

Author: Megan PricePublished 23rd Apr 2022

Campaigners will come together in Truro in a bid against Cornwall's continued housing crisis on Saturday 23rd April.

Protestors, alongside the organising group First Not Second Homes, will meet outside Royal Cornwall Museum at 11.30am before marching through the city centre and taking a look inside at the 'Living Room Exhibition'.

Cath, a co-founder of the First Not Second Homes group, told us: "It's about changing something not just for people in Cornwall but people all across the country.

"It's massive, it's an awful problem and life limiting and it's life changing".

The group protest takes on a visual form to make their message both heard and seen, with those attending bringing house boxes, banners and boards with messages.

Cath continued: We've got an exhibition at the moment showing off a 'living room', it's a public engagement piece. In the same way as the house boxes, it's all made of cardboard, the rug, the chair, everything.

"We're campaigning for changes in legislation to be able to do something about the horrendous housing situation that's occurring at the moment.

"We're not seeing any action so we decided we'd make it a very visible problem. Our actions are a very good way to get people to take a look at something and highlight something without it being too confrontational and get it in the public eye".

The Truro action is hoped to be particularly visual, with protestors being invited to bring a donation of money with them and look at the FNSH exhibition following the protest.

Their poster encourages people attending to bring instruments too to play through the centre.

Cath said: "We'll take our house boxes and whatever art that we're doing at the moment to a location. We've been to different locations, so St Ives, Mousehole, Newlyn.

"We are getting noticed".

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