Families fight eviction from Leeds coal-miners’ homes
London is not the only city where low-incomes families are forced out of homes where they have lived for generations. The gentrification and regeneration plague has spread to Leeds.
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BALLOTS: Residents pressure the ‘council estate boy’
Elected members of the London Assembly have formally called on Mayor of London Sadiq Khan to provide public funds to council estate residents campaigning to save their homes from being demolished by developers and local councils. But, for many of these residents, the LAM’s plea to Mayor Khan to ‘level the playing field’ smacks of too little, too late.
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BALLOT BIAS: ‘Democracy’ used to destroy people’s homes
“I don’t believe it was a true vote,” says Agnes Thomas, an east Londoner who has lived on the Carpenters Estate in east London for 52 years. Thomas criticises the ‘Yes’/No’ estate demolition and ‘regeneration’ ballot held by Newham Council in December 2021.
Read moreDEPRIVED OF CHILDHOOD: London’s 84,450 homeless children
The human rights of thousands of London children are being violated as they remain forced to live in substandard and uninhabitable ‘temporary’ accommodation often for years.
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Politicians push people to private landlords
Central and local government politicians are pushing an estimated 11 million people in 4.4 million households in England to depend on private market landlords for their housing. Those 1.5 million private landlords in England receive £9.1 billion in state support paid either directly, or received indirectly through their tenants.
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Help to Buy = Help to Profit
And, now, nine years later, politicians on a House of Lords committee, in a report published in January 2022, say that this £29 billion of public subsidy – most of it for Help to Buy – could have been better spent on replenishing England’s diminishing stock of council homes.
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This Is Me, Fatiha
“The kids in her class were all in tears, looking at her empty seat. It’s hard to explain to primary kids who are just crying, trying to answer their question of what happened.”
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MARKET FORCES: developer quits Tottenham Wards Corner regeneration
Corporate developers rarely withdraw from lucrative London ‘regeneration’ schemes. But Grainger has announced its withdrawal from Wards Corner in Tottenham.
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NHS GPs: ‘The doctor will see your bank account now’
‘Doctorpreneurs’ have transferred NHS contracts to run 49 London GP surgeries to an American corporation.
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Pandemic: Politicians ignored scientists’ warning in 2014
Rewind to 2014, seven years before the Coronavirus Pandemic. Duncan Selbie, then chief executive of Public Health England, warns the UK government: ‘The prospect of a flu pandemic is one of the highest risks faced by the UK.’
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