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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Permalink Reply by Finsbury Park Ranger on
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We've got one of our most determined , sharpest and funny guys stepping up the plate for Labour as mayor soon in London but the mayor can only do so much and Labour are fluffing around the edges with distributing wealth policies, they're lacking balls.
They should be trying to orangise a pan global tax on anti social wealth accumulation in solidarity with all progressive governments everywhere or at least introduce the Tobin tax but I think they're even going to fluff that when it comes to it. They look miserably close to doing nothing to change the stupid war on drugs and they probably are going to be even more anti freedom when it comes to the internet and have no plans to modernise our archiiac one-vote-every-five-years system.
They might try to uphold welfare benefits for a legion of work shy sociapaths, chancers and fraudsters to the detriment of legitimate claimants like genuine single mothers and promise to defend gold plated pensions for a lucky minority who were in the right place at the right time but that's the bit they're going wrong if you ask me.
So sadly I'm actually not holding my breath for Labour to change much at all.
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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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My friend just had an 11.5% in increase in one week. Estate agent priced property at 350k seven days ago then called up today and said , 'market has gone nuts since I saw you, because of the deals closed this week you should be looking for nothing less than 390k now'.
That's a 38% increase in 20 months since she purchased it.
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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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