Leaflet from the No Sell-Offs campaign
The ‘No Sell-Offs’ campaign against auctioning off council houses and flats, is holding an urgent public meeting this Wednesday in Kentish Town.
The leaflet opposite gives details of the meeting - at Kentish Town Community Centre on Busby Place this Wednesday at 6.30 pm – and asks ‘How can we turn up the pressure on councillors who refuse to support our campaign?’
All six local councillors in Kentish Town and Cantelowes (the area covered by the Kentish Town District Housing Office) are named as not backing the campaigners, who want to prevent more properties being sold off into the private sector when tens of thousands of people in need of a new home are stuck on council waiting lists.
The issue was highlighted again this week in the Camden New Journal (Fat Flipping Profits are Incredible), who found recently auctioned properties being advertised for sale immediately after being auctioned off to developers, a practice known as ‘flipping’ which is against the terms of the auction process.
The ‘No Sell-Offs’ campaign, organised by the Camden Federation of Tenants and Residents Associations, Camden Defend Council Housing, local District Management Committees and trade unions, is also opposing cuts to Camden’s caretaking services, which would see resident caretakers removed from council estates and blocks.
