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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 Liz on
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Useful graphic from Shelter on Bedroom Tax posted here
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Permalink Reply by Michael Anderson on
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This is not a little landlord. This is the Met Police who we support through our council tax precept (our money) I don't want them treating people this despicable way.
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Permalink Reply by Colinloves on
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Occupiers suspend resistance camp, after authorities intimidate locals at Muswell Hill
The campaign has caused a great deal of enthusiasm and support for the residents. However, the presence of activists has led Crown Housing, the local housing authorities and the MET Police to take measures to intimidate the residents, and have made what is an awful experience even more traumatic.
Since the camp was set up on Saturday, a few houses – where the residents had moved out before their eviction dates – were boarded up. This has had a terrible effect on the family’s mood at Connaught House. Another resident was told that the protestors’ presence reduced her chance of being approved another home. Whilst another household was warned to keep the children away on Monday, the eviction day, as Connaught House will not be a good place for them to be. Furthermore, eviction dates for some residents have been moved forward by a whole month without the statuary notice; this seems underhand, if not illegal, on the part of the housing associations.
A once close nit community has been torn apart by these decisions, and it was a clear decision – to all those in occupation – that the residents’ wants and well-being must come first.
Interest in the cause seems to have grown immensely over the week, and it has been a privilege to have been welcomed into a community and attempt to stand up with them for their cause.
In supporting the residents, the activists have also learned about many terrible individual stories of this eviction and its impact on individual families.
One resident works in Great Ormond Street Hospital:
with apparently no houses locally, someone in the council suggested to her husband that they need to look for housing outside of London and for her to give up her work. Another resident, who is fit and healthy, has been told she should go into sheltered accommodation – at the age of 59.
Full story Here
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BBC London News
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-london-21733796
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Was on BBC news yesterday. 10 minutes in VIDEO
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more videos from ITV news HERE
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