Anne Power

Festival of the Future City

Anne Power is a professor of Social Policy at the London School of Economics and Political Science. She taught in Tanzania before working with Martin Luther King’s ‘End Slums’ campaign in Chicago. Back in England, she acted as Warden at the Africa Centre in London and then helped lead the Friend’s Neighborhood House in Islington. She was also the coordinator of the North Islington Housing Rights Project where she fought to regenerate housing estates, secure rehousing rights for ethnic minorities, and organise tenant management co-operatives.

Power is still campaigning as a member of the government’s Housing and Urban Sounding Boards, advising Ministers on housing policy and urban matters, focusing on suggesting ways to reconcile the needs of the environment, the economy, and society. She was awarded a CBE in June 2000 for services to regeneration and promotion of resident participation.

Power fights for the rights of local communities to have a say in housing and local matters, facilitating several community projects, and educating the next generation.