Harringay, Haringey - So Good they Spelt it Twice!
House prices
Speak to the estate agents, something unprecedented it's happening with the cost of home ownership, especially between wood green tube and ally pally.
It's possible this government may become known as seeing through the largest distribution of wealth from the poor to the rich ever ....
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Permalink Reply by matt on
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Same has been happening in New York for some time as well, pushing not just the poorer households to outlying areas and beyond but the middle class ones too. The result there; the first Democrat mayor voted in for New York in a generation. Read some of the Reader Picks comments and I think you'll find common ground on some of the complaints getting louder here in London.
Matthew d'Ancona claims in The Evening Standard today that 'the Labour leader’s team assisted the Democrat candidate during the campaign', which surprised me.
More importantly d'Ancona points out,
'de Blasio plotted an entirely different path to victory. He declared war on inequality; promised to curb the “stop-and-frisk” powers of the police; pledged to expand welfare schemes; warned charter schools (the US forebears of Michael Gove’s free schools) that he would not “favour” them; and proposed higher taxes on those earning more than $500,000 a year to pay for pre-kindergarten programmes. Not all of these pledges will be realised. The point is that they swept de Blasio into office.'
Here in London the local elections are next (2014) followed closely by national elections a year later and the mayoral election in 2016. Hard to know what will happen here but it's guaranteed to be unpredictable. Certainly house price inflation, sky high rents and social cleansing will be high on voter's minds if things stay the way they are (as well as potholes, bi-weekly rubbish collections, lack of school places, energy prices .... )
De Blasio and family
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Permalink Reply by Alan Stanton on
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Thanks, Matt for flagging-up the "social cleansing" issue and the link to the work of Professor Loretta Lees. Especially as Haringey's "cabinet" is due to vote on the plans to demolish homes and businesses in North East Tottenham to please Spurs.
Today I heard that the threatened small businesses near the Spurs ground have been refused permission to have a deputation at the Council meeting on 18 November. Instead this was been referred to the "cabinet" on 28 November. The person making this decision to refuse a deputation is the Mayor of Haringey Cllr Sheila Peacock. Sheila is also one of the councillors for Northumberland Park, the ward most affected.
It is shaming that Haringey Labour refuses to let this vital issue be raised by local traders at the full Council meeting as well as the "cabinet", of course. They seem to have re-defined the term "transparency" to mean if not outright "secrecy" then telling residents only what they want us to hear.
One interesting point made by Loretta Lees is how even the language of "regeneration" is distorted to cloak the realities of the policies underway. Here's a link to a talk she gave in July 2011 at the University of Toulouse. (English version.) It's called "The grammar of 'mixed communities'."
(Tottenham Hale Ward councillor)
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Permalink Reply by james walsh on
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Thanks for the link Alan
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Do you have any idea why London councils are doing this Alan? Are they just in awe of the big bucks & the power relationships from the big corporations, govt depts, mayor's office? Councillors are pretty small fry when it comes to power dynamics after all. Or are the housing targets (backed up by development plans and planning laws) encouraging this? At best councils are being naive & at worst knowingly taking part in social cleansing. It's clear the Tories are encouraging the Bloomberg model of social cleansing that has happened in New York but for Labour councils to partake in this is beyond the pale.
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Southwark do come across as well meaning in their announcement re their council housing building programme but have failed massively with the Heygate scheme at Elephant & Castle, reducing 1000 council properties down to 79 (scroll down for article, Tenants have become dregs).
Lets hope they know what they're doing going fwd. They are the biggest social housing provider in London & the 3rd in the UK. The report the council commissioned on this housing issue includes some interesting facts.
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Viewpoints: Do MPs agree with Brand and Paxman? That article shows just how bizarrely out of touch MPs from all parties are. Once again the comments are telling with a number pointing out to the BBC, don't ask the MPs, ask us the voters!!
Re Labour candidate for mayor, that hasn't been decided yet but I'll assume you're referring to Eddie Izzard.
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Permalink Reply by HarringayBirder on
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Unlikely - he said the candidate was funny
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In March: Asking price of £450k turned into a sale at 430.
Now: Asking price in the same street now: 600. Same house, better condition, larger garden.
That's 30% in 6 months.
Insane.
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I live in that exact area you are talking about between Wood Green tube and Ally Pally station. Small two up two downs - next doors went a year ago for £285,000. Last week one was up for £350,000, this week a slightly smaller one is up for £390,000 - an increase of £40,000 in one week. Scary stuff, especially as these houses are traditionally first time buyer places - what sort of first time buyer can afford that???!!!
Just seen your last post - think we may speaking about the same road!!!
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Oh that'll probably be The Heartlands effect and you're only talking about a small area - nice houses though.
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Permalink Reply by Abi on
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Yup. A mate of mine just sold a flat at £320k that he'd bought for £250k in TL. He'd been in the property for two years. For people doing as he did and moving out to the country there could not be a better time to sell...
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With the rise in house prices comes the property developers, which is fine in moderation. However on my road I feel there are disadvantages because of this. Both houses opposite me are being renovated which means there are always 2 skips opposite, endless loud deliveries (an RSJ was delivered at 6.45am last week waking the whole street up) and lots of workmen hogging all the parking spaces which are even more restricted due to sewage works closing half the road. I guess this is all a short term problem but it comes with the rises in property prices.
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