Fulham tenants fight
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ELL MANE LLEGAL GiC 0020417000 Send letters to Socialist Organiser 28 Middle Lane, London N8. No longer than 400 words please: longer letters are liable to be cut. COUNCIL tenants on a housing estate in Fulham, which the local council proposed to sell off, voted last week to stay on the estate and continue their campaign to force the council to modernise it.
Hammersmith and Fulham Council proposed last week to sell the estate with vacant possession to a property developer and use the capital receipt to finance improvements on another run-down estate in the Borough.
The Tenants' Association discussed the proposals at a packed meeting attended by 70-80 people on Monday night and voted overwhelmingly to stay on the estate and fight for the modernisation they • were promised as long ago as 1981.
Local Labour Councillor Ian Harrison, told the meeting that the sale would not benefit any of the residents of the estate.
They would be moved off to would take five to ten years to find them all new homes given the severe housing shortage in the Borough.
He quoted from a Housing Committee report which stated that the demolition of two blocks on the estate (and there are 9) "would mean the loss of 69 units and would probably require two years to decant, during which time the large sections of boarded up units on the estate would have a very depressing effect.
Councillor. Harrison condemned the proposals as "an attempt to gentify Fulham". He said, •The Tories are saying there is not enough money to provide decent homes for the ordinary working people of Fulham but there is enough to provide expensive flats for tbe Chelsea set, who they would like to see moving in. It's a sort of class apartheid and it is not surprising the tenants will have no truck with it."
Labour will be calling for the resignation of Tory Housing Chairman when the issue is dis. cussed at the Housing Commit. tee this Tuesday and at the full Council meeting on Wednesday.
IAN HARRISON
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