A creative response to the housing crisis
With the UK in the grip of a Tory government which has overseen rising homelessness, the failure to build new homes, the further privatisation of the housing market and the Grenfell tragedy, we devised Take Care Magazine to process exactly what is going on.
Take Care Magazine is a side hustle, ran by five friends living between Glasgow and London. We interviewed people about the housing crisis all over London. We spoke to tenants, landlords, property guardians and architects. We interviewed activists and understood the housing crisis from multiple angles. We also commissioned illustrators to make creative works in response to the topics. We collated all of these pieces into the magazine. My role was to write pieces and interview people, as well as project manage the team.
The project was funded through a successful kickstarter campaign, and the magazine was stocked in shops in the UK and abroad.
The magazine collects a range of creative responses to what is widely acknowledged as the UK housing crisis. Alongside contributors, explored how the issue impacts our everyday lives.
We hope that Take Care will make an impact on the UK’s housing crisis in its own, small way. It was created in solidarity with people who are feeling the effects of the crisis. We published a short manifesto towards the end of the zine, which includes practical advice, info on local activist groups and further reading and information available online.
We raised funds with a successful Kickstarter which allowed us to print our first run of copies of the magazine. Take Care is stocked in 6 shops in Glasgow, Sheffield, London and Amsterdam. We sold out online within months of printing the magazine. Take Care was featured on It's Nice That and Creative Review.
We hope it can be informative in a more digestible way than some information available, make people realise they are not alone, and inspire action.
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