This week (w/e 26/04/13) Stoke’s social housing initiative of selling off rundown homes for £1, and issuing grants to repair them, was in the news – deservedly so.
It’s a different story in Lambeth though.
Here the council is evicting people who have maintained housing that the council abandoned for 40 years.
Now councillors – some of whom have been alive for less time than these housing co-ops have existed – are selling off these houses at auction.
This means that social housing units are being lost and people are being pushed on to an over-subscribed waiting list.
Evictions are going on all the time and you may have seen the recent splashes in the South London Press about this.
More information can be found on:
www.lambethunitedhousingco-op.org.uk
Please consider highlighting this story, the above summary cannot possibly cover the breadth of Lambeth’s incompetence and maliciousness on this issue.
Lambeth United Housing Co-operative
www.lambethunitedhousingco-op.org.uk
lambethunitedhousingco-op@hotmail.com