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Don’t sell housing
• THAT Camden Council should toy with the idea of selling off their substandard housing stock to housing associations as other councils have done is the consequence of government policy.
It is therefore the government that should be attacked and persuaded to provide funding instead of handing out millions of pounds of taxpayers’ money to housing associations that curry favour with the government in assisting in their housing targets.
One large London-based housing association favoured by the housing corporation, the government quango, received £58.7m last year and though they are producing new homes, they are selling off others.
The net result for the year was less homes than in earlier years.
The public need to understand, as your Comment so rightly pointed out, housing associations are not accountable to the public taxpayers, as councils are. Not only are the voices of tenants silenced, but those of the members (shareholders) too.
Professionals are recruited at the dictate of the government quango to manage the large housing associations and an incestuous relationship between them and highly-paid executives eliminates any opposition to their policies and ambitions. Especially that ‘Honours’ are now on offer and careers advanced within this growing sector of employment.
BRYAN LATTER
Burrard Road, NW6
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