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Young mothers evicted from London hostel may be rehoused 200 miles away

coley said:
Funny how councils never seem to have the money to improve their social housing stock and are 'forced' to hand it over to housing associations who 'suddenly' have a large number of councillors on their executive boards.
And said councils 'suddenly' find millions for new council offices?

I think my advancing age is turning me into a conspiracloon:D
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Hasnt Newham council recently blown £100 million on a new headquarters building recently........Could be a case of follow the money for a decent investigative journo if we have any left
 
I would imagine that there's a strong possibility that 'follow the money' would yield interesting results in respect of the proposed redevelopment of the estate.
 
treelover said:
Apparently, Newham is a completely Labour council, that's sixty councillors, all labour, all who have accepted the Tory benefit regime and are attacking the most vulnerable, etc.
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Whilst spending £111m on a new Council building... I take it is 'blue arsed baboon' country, i.e. put a Labour rosette on the blue arsed baboon, and it will get elected?
 
He perhaps feels they should be on his side. That he thinks he's doing the right thing, because he's labour and presumably on some level opposes the tories. Probably on principle, not in actual real terms. So when they affront him, as he sees it, they are questioning not just his authority but his values.
 
There's a fun day happening today as a celebration/ party for the last full day of the occupation , food,films , games for kiddies , music etc . If your in the area u should try get down have a look and get involved.
 
andysays said:
The Guardian have given Robin Wales (mayor of Newham) the opportunity to defend his position in the Focus E15/Carpenters Estate disgrace.

I apologise to the Focus E15 families, but this is a London housing crisis

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From the comments:

Chanelle47
06 October 2014 5:18pm

"We didn't do anything wrong but we could have handled it better".

No, you did something wrong. Like many London boroughs, you prefer middle-class people who can pay higher rents to poor, working class families who often can't. Its social engineering and you want to export those who have nothing, and the problems that may bring, elsewhere. Nothing more, nothing less.​
 
I admit I only skim read it, but he basically seemed to be saying it was all the Tories what made him do it, and he completely failed to mention the being rehoused 100s of miles away bit.
 
Via the always-worth-a-read Kate Belgrave (@hangbitch):

Tonight, the Newham council standards advisory committee met to further consider a misconduct complaint made recently against mayor Robin Wales. The committee decided that there had been a potential breach of the councillors’ code of conduct by Wales and that another hearing would be arranged to consider more evidence and decide on any action [...]

Said the standards committee this evening:

“The committee has agreed that there is a potential breach of the code of conduct. We will reconvene a subcommittee – which will be the entire standards committee invited to consider the complaint. At that subcommittee meeting, we will decide what, if any, further action there is after that. We have asked the independent investigator for some additional information ahead of the subcommittee meeting. We are looking to reconvene the subcommittee within the next two weeks.”​

http://www.katebelgrave.com/2014/10...conduct-towards-focuse15-mums-by-robin-wales/
 
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They get everywhere..
 
The England’s Lane hostel was intended to provide temporary accommodation for homeless families; however, once they move in here, “temporary” can mean years. The hostel is a modern day version of Dickens’s Marshalsea prison from Little Dorrit, a reluctant community with its own hierarchy of suffering, where years are ticked off by unlucky people who have run aground for one reason or another.
Janice has been here for five-and-a-half years, with her husband and two children now aged nearly two and five. In one corner of her room, on top of a small fridge, stand a couple of electric rings to cook on. That’s the kitchen. There’s a shower room in a cupboard and all the family’s possessions are stuffed into a stack of suitcases squashed by the door. There is only just enough room for the double bed which they all share, the four of them sleeping together restlessly.
http://www.theguardian.com/news/2014/nov/11/-sp-no-exit-britains-housing-trap
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Good Toynbee article in the G

btw, I wish they would give Kate Belgrave some commissions as well.
 
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It took only a frighteningly small step for Janice and her husband to slide from what seemed like security, to ending up here. They both worked, she had a good job as an administrator at Hendon Police College, but she was only on contract and hadn’t completed a year – so when she got pregnant, she didn’t qualify for maternity leave and lost her job when the baby was born. They were living in a bedsit where the damp seeped through the ceiling, but when they complained to the landlord that it was unhealthy for the baby, he evicted them. The practice is so widespread it has a name, “revenge eviction”, and it happens to some 200,000 private tenants a year, according to the housing charity Shelter. (A bill in the House of Commons is currently trying to ban this practice.) Landlords know they can instantly re-let to someone willing to accept almost any squalor: windowless, damp basements, kitchens divided from toilets by flimsy partitions.
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I had a degree, a good education and a good job so why would I expect to end up here?” she said, smoothing back her dark hair, as she dandled her youngest child on her knee. She has a degree from Middlesex University and had worked as an administrator in a law office before the job at Hendon Police College earning £26,000 a year. Her husband runs the postroom in an office block in Kensington: not a well paid job, but it offers security, he’s had it for a few years and likes his employers.
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Modern Britain, it can happen to anyone now.
 
Unfortunately we all sit in front of the idiot lantern being brainwashed by the broadcast MSM when we should be on the streets in our millions. Lets face it after twenty years of blair, brown, cameron and clegg there is more than enough reasons for us to be out on the streets en-mass:confused::facepalm:
 
or the years before that - de-regulating rental market, selling off and running down public housing started with Thatcher.
the only logical conclusion of such ruthless policies is illegal rentals and how long before shanty towns/ favelas grow around our increasingly rich cities. I'm lucky to have a home but makes me so mad, I thought my activist days were long over - but this sort of shit make me want to rebel!
 
friendofdorothy said:
or the years before that - de-regulating rental market, selling off and running down public housing started with Thatcher.
the only logical conclusion of such ruthless policies is illegal rentals and how long before shanty towns/ favelas grow around our increasingly rich cities. I'm lucky to have a home but makes me so mad, I thought my activist days were long over - but this sort of shit make me want to rebel!
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TBF, we've had such temporary encampments on and off for 20+ years in London. Seeing tent cities/Hoovervilles spring up in parks and on common land is pretty much all that's going to be left to some people, with cuts continuing as they are. It's also highly likely that soon enough it won't be just the unemployed and (to a certain extent) the unemployable peopling them, it'll be the lower-paid workers too, especially if regional minimum wage legislation ever makes it onto the statute books.
Makes me want to heap the denizens of the Commons and the Lords up on Parliament Square, douse the fuckwads in paraffin, and light them up!
 
ViolentPanda said:
TBF, we've had such temporary encampments on and off for 20+ years in London. Seeing tent cities/Hoovervilles spring up in parks and on common land is pretty much all that's going to be left to some people, with cuts continuing as they are. It's also highly likely that soon enough it won't be just the unemployed and (to a certain extent) the unemployable peopling them, it'll be the lower-paid workers too, especially if regional minimum wage legislation ever makes it onto the statute books.
Makes me want to heap the denizens of the Commons and the Lords up on Parliament Square, douse the fuckwads in paraffin, and light them up!
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Nah I would dump all of the inhabitants of the palace of fools [both upper and lower houses] in one of the redundant army bases we could even lay on special trains to take them there and even have a nice welcoming sign above the entrance to welcome them say on the lines of "Work Sets You Free" to welcome the happy campers to their new homes
 
benefit gig on Friday 23 Jan
9pm - 6am
£5 ALL NIGHT LONG - Profits to the Focus E15
The Rhythm Factory, 16 Whitechapel Road, E1 1EW

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victory then? :)
http://www.theguardian.com/society/...idents-celebrate-charity-buys-estate-investor

At 2pm on Friday it was confirmed that the 93 families’ battle against eviction by an $11bn US investor had finally been successful. Months of protesting, marching and petitioning had forced the millionaire executives of Westbrook Partners to sell the estate, abandoning plans to evict families and triple rents.

The new owner was announced as the Dolphin Square Foundation, a charity dedicated to providing affordable homes for low and middle income Londoners. It instantly pledged to keep rents at their current low rates not just this Christmas but next Christmas too.
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“It is an amazing feeling,” said Lindsey Garrett, an NHS worker and one of three women who spearheaded the campaign to save the flats from investors determined to capitalise on London’s soaring property market. “We beat a multibillion-dollar investment company. Who would have thought three single mothers from Hoxton could have done that?”
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