2. An inhuman treatment of powerless tenants.
TAP is opposing in the implementation of the project at High Road West.
We so firmly believe it is against the best interests of the low income
residents of Tottenham. After the secure tenants were moved out, the
current tenants of Love Lane Estate have been moved in by Haringey Council. Because they are homeless families in temporary accommodation
they have no relevant housing rights and can be moved out more easily
before demolition. An inhuman treatment of powerless tenants.
Some of these 180 young families have been in temporary accommodation
for up and over ten years. They have already been forced to moved
several times so disrupting the education of their growing children.
They are among 3000 homeless families in temporary accommodation in
Haringey. Too many of them are in one room in hostels or other
accommodation - when none ought to be.
The way the High Road West project has been designed does not commit the
council to using 100% of the site for meeting part of a target of
providing the 3000 much needed secure homes for the homeless. What is
proposed is the convoluted process of allowing Lend Lease to build on
land which is free to the council and then sell "affordable" homes back
to the council for £68,000 each. That enables Lend Lease to make the
largest profit possible by selling the remaining and the majority if the
homes into the very expensive London housing market.
The best way to build truly affordable homes for rent is for the council
keep their public land out of the market, borrow the money and hire
Lend Lease to build them.
It is a matter of public interest that we all know the terms of the out of court settlement bewteen
lendlease and the council, particularly whether it involved
Northumberland Park, another council estate eyed by international
property devopers for similar treatment.
Another shocking aspect of the High Road West project is the intention
to grab the land from under 50 small thriving businesses of the Peacock
Industrial Estate. Their businesses, which are employing local people,
will be severely disrupted - to create a park!
The current national housing policy is ideologically designed to prevent the building of council homes on council land.
To
do so is not socialism. It is simply an intelligent way of building
truly affordable housing which has been used by all political parties in
power since WWII. Also the capacity of the poorest tenants to pay even
the lowest rents in London has been severely undermined by the shredding
of housing benefit and other social security payments. (See above)
Now is not the time to build social housing at council house rents. It
would be better to leave it until after the next election which will
have to change national housing and social security policies for the
better and , it is ardently hoped. for the better use of public and
private land for the common good.
For the time being the council ought to stop pushing powerless homeless
families in temporary accommodation from pillar to post. The council can
leave them where they are - even declare them all permanently housed.
National housing and social security policies have to change to meet the needs of low income tenants.
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I, Alan Wheatley, in forwarding the above from Revd Paul Nicolson of Taxpayers Against Poverty, refer the reader of this to
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