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Sunday, 24 January 2010 01:52 |
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 Last week, Haringey Solidarity Group took action with M, a Haringey mother, facing eviction from a private tenancy. The council had finally agreed to house her, but would not do so until she had been physically evicted. M just wanted a few days' notice to make arrangements, and to put her mind at rest.
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Tuesday, 29 September 2009 00:41 |
"We don't want to move!", say sheltered housing tenants
Elderly tenants met in Tottenham on Wednesday, 26th August, to launch a campaign to save their homes at four sheltered housing schemes:
Campbell Court, N17 - 49 flats
Larkspur Close, N17 - 36 flats
Protheroe House, N17 - 47 flats
Stokley Court, Hornsey - 47 flats
The four schemes have been removed from the Haringey's programme of 'decent homes' improvements, pending discussions with residents about the future of their homes.
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Tuesday, 18 August 2009 19:27 |
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On Saturday 1st August, Haringey Solidarity Group organised a protest outside the Natwest Bank in Wood Green.
NatWest and Lloyds Banking Group have been bailed out with £70bn of our money, and it’s reckoned that the overall cost of propping up the banking system will be £130bn –that's almost £5,000 for every household in Britain.
But go down to Edmonton County Court on a Thursday and you'll find the same high street banks queuing up to get Repossession Orders – in effect, throwing families out on the street just because they can't pay their mortgages. |
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Friday, 05 June 2009 21:07 |
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According to the Council of Mortgage Lenders, an estimated 75,000 homes will be repossessed this year, three tim es more than 2007, and nearly twice as many as last year. The current financial crisis has led to people being laid off work, making them vulnerable to repossession orders due to them struggling to keep up with mortgage repayments. |
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Thursday, 14 August 2008 20:15 |
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Haringey tenants oppose 7 new weekly service charges. A statement from Haringey Defend Council Housing campaign, June 2008:
Homes for Haringey are consulting us on SEVEN new weekly service charges for the 16,700 council tenants and the 4,000 leaseholders. Only ten weeks ago we had rent and service charge increases that averaged 9.1%, and that exceeded ten per cent for 7,187 tenant households. The proposed new charges are for cleaning the outside of communal windows in blocks, cleaning the outside of all windows in flats, sweeping and litter picking on bank holidays, more weeding of planted areas, more weed spraying of paths, more sweeping and cleaning corridors and balconies, and sweeping and cleaning outside flat doors. A further possible charge is for upgrading existing TV aerials to receive digital television. That would make sixteen weekly service charges, in addition to the rent.
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