Harringay, Haringey - So Good they Spelt it Twice!
Connaught House - Save our homes
21 FAMILIES WHO LIVE AT CONNAUGHT HOUSE, MUSWELL HILL ARE BEING MADE HOMELESS
The Metropolitan Police are planning to make 21 families homeless by reclaiming the land for profitable redevelopment.
AS YET THEY HAVE NOT BEEN GIVEN PLANNING PERMISSION MEANING THESE BUILDINGS COULD LIE EMPTY (& OPEN TO VANDALISM) FOR THE FORESEEABLE FUTURE.
By doing this, they will be ripping the heart out of the community that live here.
Some of the residents, having lived here for over 20 years (and brought up children and raised families), have been informed by Crown Housing Association and Haringey Council that they have no legal obligation to re-house them, thus making them homeless.
In the current climate, where Social Housing is already under extreme pressure, virtually non existent; is making another 21 families homeless, the best solution? Are the financial needs of the Metropolitan Police greater than those of people's lives?
BAILIFFS ARE DUE THE 2ND WEEK IN MARCH! (11th)
Local groups are getting involved, as well as Occupy London and Save Barnet Library.
Please come down and give your support.
LOCATION: Connaught House, Muswell Hill, N10 3LH,
They also have a Facebook page: Facebook: Save Our Homes
Tags for Forum Posts: Connaught House, community, eviction, homes, local, police, protest
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Permalink Reply by Colinloves on
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Connaught Gardens Update
Residents due to move out later in this month and the following month have been told they have to move out on the11th.
One of the residents is on his way to court to hopefully challenge the new eviction notice given for 11th March. He has also been down to Haringey council, who have told him that until he is evicted, there is nothing they can do. Once him and his family are evicted then they will offer him and his wife and there two young children temp accommodation in different b&bs. They can also only really offer him accommodation out of the area in places such as Essex etc. Yet the Crown Housing are at liberty till 2015 to manage the property until they hand the property over to the metropolitan police. The protect and serve? Just following orders. Expect to hear that on the scheduled eviction of the 11th.
Support is needed in the manner of your choosing.
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Got into the local paper...
http://www.haringeyindependent.co.uk/news/10273426.Families_to_be_f...
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Authorities have intimidate and divide the community.
They have lied too.Kinda shocking really, when you think they got all the legal law on their side. Yet they still have to use underhanded tactics to get what they want.
They have told some residents, that if they protest in any form, it will delay their re-housing process.
They are telling each resident different things and dividing them, thus making them lose their strength, as a community.
They know that its more easy to boss residents around, when they are divided.
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Permalink Reply by Michael Anderson on
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A market rent is a for profit rent. Councils do not and are not allowed to make a profit. Council homes are built with 60 year funding. The rent recoups the cost of the investment and maintenance and management.
PS. Google Choice Based Lettings. They are an organisation that handles the allocation process for many London boroughs and gives rent details for each property. People on the waiting list have to bid fro properties that come up and the applicant with the highest number of points (i.e. the household with the highest level of need) normally gets the property
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I'm a bit shakey on the exact mechanics these days but when I worked in housing councils made what were in effect bids to government through their housing investment programme. Government then made awards of money for capital projects such as house building or major estate improvements. The capital costs were then recouped through rent. What has changed is that most of the money goes to housing associations who carry out most of what little social house building there is nowadays.
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Permalink Reply by 17zs7uljro7ay on
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Hi Therese, thanks a lot for your support. I think it is fair to say that the vast majority of us started with nothing (or close to nothing), probably with debts (mine relatively minor at Eur 12,000). Then some people manage, through hard work (luck, sometimes, but mostly hard work) to come out of the spiral when at the end of the month you are left with nothing (maybe an overdraft if the bank allows you to have one).
Why then the divergence in people's life? Only hard work. My plumber (local, so you might even know him) used to work in the lab of Glaxo smith Kline. When he realised that he would never make it big, he retrained as a plumber and now works Monday to Sunday 8am to 9pm. He could have joined the council housing bandwagon, but he never did.
So, please please please stop this sense of entitlement, roll up your sleeves and start working.there are jobs out there, I promise you. Our occasional babysitter found a job as a waitress in 4 days: a few months ago there were jobs going at: Crussh, cabana (Brazilian restaurant), a pie place in the City (this is the one she took) and Starbucks "baristas". All paying little, but the more hours you work the more money you make.
So, apart from some exceptional cases ( people with illness, etc), I see no excuse for not working hard (so hard that when you wake you think "I can't go on any more") and having your independence from the government.
You might ask: is this a life? Everybody would love a balance, but for many people this is not possible. You have your dignity and you can hold your head high. I find no dignity sitting at home and thinking how "unfair" life is.
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Hola Therese, muy bien gracias. y tu?
How can I send a private message? I am not sure he wants his name on a website.
Please let me know.
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Sense of entitlement. You believe the right wing propaganda too much. You should really read them with a pinch of salt.
I know people who have worked all their lives and sent their children to school and never bought their council house. They did not have the mentality that buying a house is the "be all and and all" of their lives. Unfortunately, due to the neo-liberal changes perpetrated to the people, they are in a position of losing the homes that have been in the family for three generations.
As for the "more hours you work, the more money you make" mentality. Not for long.
I worked in a place that in the 1980's had five people working, for the job I did by myself with a computer.
They have now made a robot that can cook 360 burgers per hour. Once that robot costs as much as the wages of three people flipping burgers in a year, then Mcdonalds will no longer need people flipping burgers.
You may have noticed that there are less tills in supermarkets? More check out counters?
Your plumber has gotten a taste of the future already. All his training and he had re-skill to become a tradesman. For now, his job is safe.
I know too many people who say that hard work is the answer and now face bankruptcy due to the economic crisis of banks that have gambled and left the tax payer to pick up the bill.
Hard work? Did you enjoy the Quantitative Easing from the government £250Billion given to the banks and along with inflation, probably translated to a 10% reduction on your wages.
I have no desire to buy stuff that I do not need, to impress people I do not like. I do prefer to fight for a better world, rather than keep working in the rat race, in the deluded hope to gain enough fiat paper to escape the property bubble burst, and the ensuing economic meltdown.
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Hi Obi,
There is a sense of entitlement that many people seem to have in this country. The office junior got a massive telling off from the boss when he decided that printing and making "packs" for our monthly meeting was "beneath him". I took him aside and told him gently that we all have to start somewhere and the somewhere is normally the bottom. I am not sure whether he listened to me (probably more to the boss) but his attitude, at least outwardly, changed.
I am lucky enough (or unlucky) that I don't have much savings as the money is all in the house. My salary in real terms has been cut by 10% more or less, but luckily also my expenses have gone down by the same amount. For example, less heating, I only buy stuff on offer and/or Aldi. We always go on holiday, even in exotic places but we manage to find special offers/secret hotels on last minute.
I only buy second hand clothes but good ones, there are some lovely "vintage" shops where you get some suits for 60 pounds that last 10 years and are like new ( before somebody asks, designs for you in Hampstead) is a must. Suits for 60, tops for 6-10 pounds, all designers).
The children have second hand uniforms slightly larger than their own sizes, but that then we resell.
I bring my lunch to work and drink coffee in the office ( I bought my own coffee machine).
My pension is doing ok, I don't contribute much to it as I don't have much spare money but I manage it myself. I know a bit about investments and just manage it myself, so it is doing ok, as I said.
I don't care if property prices go down as I am living in my house, I have no interest in buy to let or similar. I didn't buy my house to impress anybody (believe me it is NOT impressive), but to be able to have freedom from landlords who treat you badly. I can do quite a lot of DIY (and my husband is also good) so we don't spend much in maintenance (if you ever need to repair an appliance, go to espares.co.uk, it is a godsend).
So, it is a mediocre, but decent life. Please feel free to fight against the government, lets see how far you get.
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Feels a bit like if you can afford to buy that's fine but If you rent, tough luck.
Being able to chuck people out on a whim is a relatively new thing. People used to have secure tenancies where eviction was only possible if you did not abide by the terms of the tenancy. There was also something called controlled rent and a rent officer service who could make judgements on what was reasonable. The conservatives saw that off in the 80s and we've ended up where we a now, insecure homes and transient, unsettled populations who never get a chance to put down roots.
People don't only make a financial investment in their homes, they make emotional ones. Treating them like rubbish that can be disposed of when they don't suit the owner anymore is just plain wrong
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Permalink Reply by John D on
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The disabled who need the extra room because of their disability will be exempt from the bedroom tax. But I agree on the general lack of thought regarding many of the new proposals.
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Permalink Reply by Liz on
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Only partly true. If your carer is not a member of your family and needs to stay overnight then you are exempt. However, if your carer is a member of your family you will need to pay the shortfall.
For example, couples who need the extra room because one of them is disabled and therefore they can't share a room are not exempted, but they will be able to apply for discretionary housing payments to make up the shortfall [form here]. This, of course, is subject to there being enough money in the pot to cover all the claims. At this stage, it is not clear how many people will need these payments. DHPs are not usually paid long term.
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