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Ealing Council at it again

        In an article on Ealing today I cannot believe what I read. Our Council seem to be falling over backwards to do a repetition of the Afghan family debacle, and voluntarily paying more than the landlord wants.  See this extract :-        "The house had three bedrooms and was for rent at £2,300 per month. The rental market is also falling - not plummeting like the purchase market, but floating gently downwards. So we offered £2,100 and agreement seemed very close."Then Ealing Council stepped in and offered the owner £2,700 per month to take it for social housing."     and this is the link to the full article                    http://ealingtoday.co.uk/default.asp?section=info&spage=common/eacouncil089.htm     Perhaps someone from the Council will be so kind as to inform us why they are doing this, and also how many more such instances there have been involving properties with  rents of say £2000 or more a month since the beginning of Oct. last year.       

Tony Price ● 6466d4 Comments

Government subsidised social hosing in private properties is wasting our tax and skewing the property market. No politicos seem to care, nor the media.

Graham Weeks ● 6465d

A check through the Housing Department has shown that no such transaction has taken place.When the enquiry came in there was no specific address attached so a check of the whole area was undertaken and nothing has come up.The Council has asked the Editor and the poster for an actual address but so far this has not been provided. If this is provided we might be able to find out precisely whom this property went to.

Jason Stacey ● 6465d

Re  The Council has asked the Editor and the poster for an actual address but so far this has not been provided. If this is provided we might be able to find out precisely whom this property went to.          xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx      thank you Jason for your response, which means either you or another does read the FORUM, comforting. If the Editor of the " Paper" is not able to supply the address , the author / former Ambassador to Uzbekistan should be able to do so. Please keep us informed, because with the tightening credit squeeze, I think those with use of Public Funds need to very vigilant in where and on what  our money is spent. While on this subject, and having engaged your attention, may I raise the case of the housing of a family in Acton which hit the local and national headlines in Oct last where the rent paid for them is a staggering £12480 per MONTH, plus other benefits of course, but which case naturally caused outrage. Is any attempt being made to rehouse this family in more cost effective accomodation. I appreciate  the money is raised from national tax-payers, but even so it is causing much disquiet. To what extent the National Press will get hold of it again remains to be seen but I venture it might be in Ealing Council's best interests if it can be shown active steps are being made to drastically reduce the cost to tax payers.

Tony Price ● 6465d

Re  The Council has asked the Editor and the poster for an actual address           xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx    Jason, I have just posted a reply to the one you have made, and having re -read yours, I find you do make reference to the author also having been contacted, so in that respect my other post is in error, but there are other matters included therein hopefully to engage your attention. Thank you.

Tony Price ● 6465d