Social Housing/ private renters/ squatters/ homeless
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Gramsci
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Twitter exchange between Cllr Steve Bradley (LD) and Cabinet member for Housing and Regeneration about Short Life housing.
It is good to see that people are protesting and fighting back. I don't live in Lambeth but am cheered by that response to what is being done. The fightback needs to happen regardless of the electoral prospects of any party in elections.
What an arrogant bastard that Councillor is.
AKA pseudonym
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cuppa tee
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Cabinet member ?
Communist
New Member
Good protest. Hope people liked the RCG sound system. Get involved, I think the next LHA meeting is on 26th?
We are showing our new documentary about Venezuela (lots of housing stuff in that) on 28th Nov at Brixton Soup Kitchen - all welcome (free/donations) with a Q+A after. Come down! Even if youre not in brixton
We are showing our new documentary about Venezuela (lots of housing stuff in that) on 28th Nov at Brixton Soup Kitchen - all welcome (free/donations) with a Q+A after. Come down! Even if youre not in brixton
AKA pseudonym
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Gramsci
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Next Lambeth Housing Activist Meeting: Tuesday 3rd December. 7pm to 9pm
The Rotunda Hall, Papworth Way, Cressingham Gardens Estate, SW2 2NL
(Cressingham gardens is to the left going up Tulse Hill from Brixton)
Activists meeting to co-ordinate campaigns and protest actions about the increasing problems of homelessness and lack of council housing in Lambeth. All welcome- private and social tenants, squatters etc.
ViolentPanda
Hardly getting over it.
Next Lambeth Housing Activist Meeting: Tuesday 3rd December. 7pm to 9pm
The Rotunda Hall, Papworth Way, Cressingham Gardens Estate, SW2 2NL
(Cressingham gardens is to the left going up Tulse Hill from Brixton)
Activists meeting to co-ordinate campaigns and protest actions about the increasing problems of homelessness and lack of council housing in Lambeth. All welcome- private and social tenants, squatters etc.
Just to add a bit to Gramsci's directions, the part of the estate that the Rotunda is on, is on the left after the Tesco Metro/petrol station, and has an entry road (there's another bit of the estate before that which just has a path) and a map letting you know where everything is.
Tricky Skills
Well-Known Member
From Private Eye this week:
"The struggle of the last few remaining housing co-operative members in Labour-run Lambeth to remain in their homes continues - as does the 'co-operative' council's efforts to evict them.
Council leader Lib Peck insists that Lambeth has to sell off the houses where many elderly and disabled people have lived for years, because there is no financially viable alternative. This has irked Lambeth United, the umbrella group for the co-ops, which in 2011 suggested a 'super co-op' solution, with a registered social landlord, which would have kept co-op members off the council housing list. Cllr Peck replied in correspondence: No one has suggested anything that is workable - except eviction, of course.
So what is Lambeth doing with all the money it's collecting from the sale of former co-op housing? The pot has grown to more than £40m - some £8m more than the council originally said it hoped to raise. The council says the money is to be invested in new and modernised social housing - although it has no information about how many new units have been built or refurbished.
The council also appears to have broken its own rules. Units are only supposed to be sold to people who will live in them - or to developers who will sell them to individuals. Co-op members allege that many former houses have been sold to private landlords and are being rented out. Poor show."
"The struggle of the last few remaining housing co-operative members in Labour-run Lambeth to remain in their homes continues - as does the 'co-operative' council's efforts to evict them.
Council leader Lib Peck insists that Lambeth has to sell off the houses where many elderly and disabled people have lived for years, because there is no financially viable alternative. This has irked Lambeth United, the umbrella group for the co-ops, which in 2011 suggested a 'super co-op' solution, with a registered social landlord, which would have kept co-op members off the council housing list. Cllr Peck replied in correspondence: No one has suggested anything that is workable - except eviction, of course.
So what is Lambeth doing with all the money it's collecting from the sale of former co-op housing? The pot has grown to more than £40m - some £8m more than the council originally said it hoped to raise. The council says the money is to be invested in new and modernised social housing - although it has no information about how many new units have been built or refurbished.
The council also appears to have broken its own rules. Units are only supposed to be sold to people who will live in them - or to developers who will sell them to individuals. Co-op members allege that many former houses have been sold to private landlords and are being rented out. Poor show."
leanderman
Street Party: July 2
Lambeth does appear to be spending money on renovations: in Rushcroft rd and St Matthew's, if the latter is theirs
Woman who saved derelict Lambeth council home faces eviction.
London borough selling valuable houses rescued by residents from demolition.
http://www.theguardian.com/society/2013/dec/01/woman-lambeth-council-home-faces-eviction
London borough selling valuable houses rescued by residents from demolition.
http://www.theguardian.com/society/2013/dec/01/woman-lambeth-council-home-faces-eviction
leanderman
Street Party: July 2
She should be allowed to stay - on a proper rent.
The shortlife stories highlighted by the Brixton Bugle suggest some people have been paying £10 a week or month, which seems far too low.
I think she should be offered a secure tenancy at subsidised rent subject to her circumstances and be guaranteed a share of the proceeds in any future sale. I also think she deserves a round of applause.
marty21
One on one? You're crazy.
short-life rents are low because they are supposed to be temporary - clearly Lambeth have fucked up, 33 years is not short life - it isn't her fault that Lambeth fucked up
leanderman
Street Party: July 2
Their incompetence has been to her benefit - until now.
In hindsight, is 33 years of ultra-low rent worth trading for being kicked out at the end?
Possibly, if you put aside the money saved on rent.
Gramsci
Well-Known Member
The article show that the money from these sales is not ringfenced for housing. Lambeth keep saying it goes into housing but that is not correct.
Also whatever the rights and wrongs of Short Life these houses should be retained as social housing
Selling these houses is like selling the family silver. Once they are gone that’s it.
Lambeth shortlife is currently on the front page of www.theguardian.com -
Not read it to identify which co-ops...
I know there's a better thread to put this in. Feel free to move/copy if you know which it is.
Not read it to identify which co-ops...
I know there's a better thread to put this in. Feel free to move/copy if you know which it is.
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leanderman
Street Party: July 2
According to today's Independent, only one council home is built for every seven lost to right to buy.
April 2012-Dec 2013: 1,662 replacements and 10,954 sales.
editor
hiraethified
Shameful. Disgusting.
editor
hiraethified
Here's more from the Independent:
And more bullshit from that Shapps slug:
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/u...ncil-homes-8976121.html?origin=internalSearch
AKA pseudonym
Well-Known Member
Lambeth Housing Activists Meeting Tuesday 3 December @7pm
ALL WELCOME
ALL WELCOME
ViolentPanda
Hardly getting over it.
And that's only since councils have been allowed to develop replacements, which means 25+ years where the only replacements (at an even lower rate) were those built by Housing Associations.
marty21
One on one? You're crazy.
I doubt Lambeth will refund her for all the money she spent maintaining their property over 33 years
leanderman
Street Party: July 2
She should get that back.
leanderman
Street Party: July 2
Or, rather the house should be kept as a social housing. And she pay what other council tenants pay.
marty21
One on one? You're crazy.
they were never going to replace one for everyone lost under RTB - I work for a London Local Authority and RTB applications have shot up since April - which is going to lead to longer periods on the waiting lists for families who are overcrowded and simply can't afford to buy a place
