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Housing should be according to need
• I AM writing in response to your article ‘Man with Liver condition faces eviction because of storage room’ (Nov16). My family live in a one-bedroom council flat. There are four of us.
The council policy is that we have to use our living room as a bedroom, and it looks like we will have to wait until our children are 10 years old before we will have enough points to enable us to bid successfully for a larger property.
I become very angry with people like Mr Higgins who believe he has the right to a larger property. Camden Council would not move him into a two-bedroom and expect him to live in the living room because that would mean that they have deliberately put him into accommodation that is too small for him.
They would then be obliged to find him a larger house or flat.
Mr Higgins goes on about his mental health – well maybe he would like to live in cramped overcrowded conditions like we and many other families in Camden are forced to.
The problem is that there are far too many people old and young that under occupy council housing. I was very pleased to see that Camden Council is doing this. I would like them to take it further.
They should do an audit of all their council housing and discover just how many people are under occupying.
Then they should move them into homes that better meets their needs. This would then free up property for families like mine and many others.
They should then make this a council policy and write it into tenancy conditions so that they do not have to spend money evicting people.
In schools at the moment there is a policy called every child matters. This policy does not as yet extend to social housing conditions. I think it should. Mr Higgins should stop moaning and wasting our money on court cases and count himself lucky to have been offered good alternative accommodation.
JOHN WILLIAMS
Robert Street, NW1
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