“This is my home. I don’t give them the right to make a decision on behalf of my life,” Aysen Dennis says. “I’ve been campaigning for the last 23 years, and I’m going to keep fighting until the very end. This is not right.”
The 64-year-old former women’s refuge worker is holding out against plans to knock down her estate in Southwark and build new flats. To that end, Dennis has turned every room of her council flat into a densely packed, wall-and-ceiling-covering exhibition documenting her decades-long struggle to remain in her home.
“Years later, I’m still here. That’s all that matters. Even if I prolong, to make them lose lots of money because of the court case, that’s what I am after,”
