'Mind the Gap' is a creative campaign against land banking, a practice in which developers hoard undeveloped plots to inflate the price of land, preventing smaller housebuilders or community groups from accessing land of their own.

 

'Mind the Gap' proposes ‘Gap Houses’ as one solution: small, affordable homes built in the gaps between buildings. In occupying London’s building gaps, it highlights the social gap in the official responses to the housing crisis.

The campaign has three stages: ‘find a gap’ walking event;  ‘fill the gap’ gap-house installation making; and ‘mind the gap’ creative campaign. The first two stages take place in Islington, north London.

 

We, young adults and families who live in London but cannot afford to rent or buy a home, are the people suffering from a housing crisis. 'Mind the gap!' is our campaign against the obstacle of land banking.