BHANGEELAAR! Diagnosing Tower Hamlets Council's implementation of the agenda of internal deportation via creation of new homelessness
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Monday
20 December 2010
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Tower Hamlets Council is an unaccountable bureaucracy that is already carrying out the agenda of the CONDEM regime. This is being done via the so-called RSLs, the ‘Registered Social Landlords’, outfits that are in fact extensions of the very corrupt bureaucracy within the Council which created the outfits to begin with. As such the RSLs are staffed with personnel that had been employed in the Council’s housing department before that was in effect dismantled as part of the destruction of public sector housing provisions in Tower Hamlets.
So what are the “elected councillors” doing in Tower Hamlets to stop the CONDEM agenda from being implemented?
This is addressed in a diagnostic updater comment published on the London Guardian web site in the last hour by BHANGEELAAR!
Here is what has been said in the BHANGEELAAR! Campaign comment posted on the DAVE HILL London Blog:
Your [Dave Hill, Guardian London Blog editor] causal reference to homelessness in London, as attributed to Shelter, is not accurate. Registered Social landlords [=RSLs] have been causing a significant number of homelessness that ought never to have been caused. Our Movement is due to publish the full report of findings on the research that we have carried out in Tower Hamlets over the past year. We have looked at your blog which we briefly discuss below.
In your blog about your “interview” with Tower Hamlets councillor Abbas Uddin “Helal” [you referred to him as “Helal Abbas”] dated 19 October 2010, you published the following
[Quote]:
For example, I used to be on the board of Tower Hamlets Community Housing run by a young, white director who grew up in Tower Hamlets, of about my age. Now, he celebrates every single religious celebration in his organisation. On some occasions I've seen more non-Muslims celebrating the Eid festival, because he created those kinds of environments. "A local authority is an enabler.
It can help people learn about each other much more so they build up relationships. If you come to my house for a cup of tea I'm more likely to go to your house for a cup of tea and if I see you in the street I'm more likely to talk to you. A local authority needs to create those opportunities.
Our local authority needs to be transparent in the way we spend our funding, the way we allocate our housing, the way we run our schooling.
We need to win the trust of people so that they do not have a perception of one group being favoured over another.
"That's not easy," he concluded. "It's not risk free. But it needs to be done. I have done it, and I think I can do it again." [Unquote]. That promotional reference to “Tower Hamlets Community Housing [“THCH”] by Abbas Uddin “Helal” n
eeds to be scrutinised in context, especially in view of the fact that THCH is now engaged in implementing the CONDEM agenda on housing.
THCH is one of the outfits that were CREATED by Tower Hamlets Council itself in all but name.
This is proven by Abbas Uddin “Helal” himself in your own blog where he says he used to be on the THCH Board. From the way that you report him, the true arrangement between Tower Hamlets Council and THCH does not come across at all.
Nor does Abbas Uddin “Helal” say in the piece that he “used to be on the THCH board” not because of some benevolent offer made by the “young white director” of his positive acquaintance but because Tower Hamlets Council was required to have a pro-democratic presence on those boards and that Abbas Uddin “Helal” was one of a number of sitting councillors who were nominated by the Council to be on that board.
Why were the councillors on that “board”?
The plain answer is: to mainly report back to the Council on how the transferred Council housing stock was being run by the ‘registered social landlords’.
At which point we refer to Tower Hamlets Council’s chief executive’s office.
Over the past four years, our movement has asked the Tower Hamlets Council’s Chief Executive to provide reports on what the “Councillors” [and any others, e.g. non-councillors who at the supposed “discretion” of the Council might be also nominated] were reporting back to the Council on their membership of those external bodies including THCH. We have not got anywhere.
Why?
Because the Orwellian “Democratic Services” unit of the Chief Executive’s Department has told us that there were no such reports! Not only that, the “Democratic Services” itself has no idea as to how many Tower Hamlets Councillors sit on such external bodies.
There is no audit done by Tower Hamlets Council of the councillors who sit on external bodies or of what they do if anything. So Tower Hamlets Council has no evidential basis for making any claims on the effects of the policies of THCH on thousands of people who found their housing transferred from being public sector to the private sector in effect. For this reason the NEW homelessness that is being created in Tower Hamlets will have to “accept” by Tower Hamlets Council.
Why?
Because their “partners” the RSLs that the Council created, are going to tell them that that is the way to go forward.
On known statistic of the composition of the households in Tower Hamlets, a significant majority will be susceptible to be internally deported to other parts of the UK! Many of those will be to locations where “Eid” will be as strange and unheard of a word as “accountability” has been to the “Democratic Services” unit! Given this situation, what credibility will Ed Miliband have in claiming that HIS Party councillors are REPRESENTING any true alternative to the CONDEM agenda on housing?
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There was a significant increase in the number of households accepted as homeless by London's councils during the third quarter of 2010 (to the end of September) compared with the second. Figures recently released by the Department for Communities and Local Government show the number for London to have gone up by 330, from 2,300 to 2,630, representing a rise of 14.3 percent. This is a little below the figure for the whole of England of 17.2 percent but still part of what Shelter, which has highlighted the figures, has described as "the first sustained increase since 2003."
In the capital, however, the overall rise is far from consistent across every authority. Some boroughs show large increases in the numbers they have accepted as homeless while others show mostly small falls. The biggest increase came in Croydon which accepted 147 households as homeless in the third quarter compared with 75 in the previous one, an increase of 72. It was followed by Kensington and Chelsea where the increase was 61 (up from 47 to 108), Southwark up 55 (from 108 to 163), Waltham Forest up 47 (from 37 to 84) Haringey up 42 (from 90 to 132) and Bexley up 37 (from 28 to 65). The numbers increased in less statistically significant ways in Ealing, Enfield, Hackney, Hammersmith and Fulham, Harrow, Havering, Kingston, Lewisham, Richmond and Sutton.
Lambeth had the highest number of acceptances in the third quarter - 219, which represents a very slight fall of three compared with the second quarter. Hackney, with 213, had the second highest number, followed by Southwark with 163 and Croydon with 147. The biggest fall in the number of homeless household acceptances was in Barking and Dagenham, where there was a drop from 96 in the second quarter to 53 in the third, a reduction of 44.8 percent. Another statistically noticeable fall came in Tower Hamlets, one of 15.4 percent (down 24 from 156 to 132) but all the other falls were small.
An intriguing thing about these stats is that the upward trend has been driven in boroughs as different as smart K&C, suburban Bexley and largely poor Haringey. I'm contacting several boroughs to see if they can explain this irregular pattern. Shelter, though, has little doubt that the increases across England, London included, demonstrate a deepening homelessness crisis caused by a number of factors. Chief ececutive Campbell Robb said, "We know from the cases we see every day that just one single thing, like a bout of illness, rent increase or drop in income, is all that's needed push people into a spiral of debt and arrears that can lead to the loss of their home."
The new figures have emerged against the backdrop of of London Councils confirming today that it will end its funding of some pan-London housing and homelessness services, and provisions in the government's new Localism Bill to reduce the rights of homeless people when they turn to their local authority for help. More on all this soon.
Posted by Dave Hill Tuesday 14 December 2010 15.02 GMT guardian.co.uk
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remusp
14 December 2010 3:50PM
The result of Labour driving the population up by 20% WITHOUT thinking about funding and putting in the infrastructure first
Damage done and sadly will get worse .
Lets hope we never ever see a minority mandate Labour Government again
On plus side a lot of underused public sector sites wil be coming to the market so supply can increase if complexiity of planning can be fast tracked .
106 payments are penal though but need to be to build all the new schools , roads etc
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14 December 2010 3:53PM
With the present government policies things can only get worse.
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20 December 2010 12:24AM
Your causal reference to homelessness in London, as attributed to Shelter, is not accurate. Registered Social landlords [=RSLs] have been causing a significant number of homelessness that ought never to have been caused. Our Movement is due to publish the full report of findings on the research that we have carried out in Tower Hamlets over the past year. We have looked at your blog which we briefly discuss below.
In your blog about your “interview” with Tower Hamlets councillor Abbas Uddin “Helal” [you referred to him as “Helal Abbas”] dated 19 October 2010, you published the following [Quote]: For example, I used to be on the board of Tower Hamlets Community Housing run by a young, white director who grew up in Tower Hamlets, of about my age. Now, he celebrates every single religious celebration in his organisation. On some occasions I've seen more non-Muslims celebrating the Eid festival, because he created those kinds of environments. "A local authority is an enabler. It can help people learn about each other much more so they build up relationships. If you come to my house for a cup of tea I'm more likely to go to your house for a cup of tea and if I see you in the street I'm more likely to talk to you. A local authority needs to create those opportunities. Our local authority needs to be transparent in the way we spend our funding, the way we allocate our housing, the way we run our schooling. We need to win the trust of people so that they do not have a perception of one group being favoured over another. "That's not easy," he concluded. "It's not risk free. But it needs to be done. I have done it, and I think I can do it again." [Unquote]. That promotional reference to “Tower Hamlets Community Housing [“THCH”] by Abbas Uddin “Helal” needs to be scrutinised in context, especially in view of the fact that THCH is now engaged in implementing the CONDEM agenda on housing. THCH is one of the outfits that were CREATED by Tower Hamlets Council itself in all but name. This is proven by Abbas Uddin “Helal” himself in your own blog where he says he used to be on the THCH Board. From the way that you report him, the true arrangement between Tower Hamlets Council and THCH does not come across at all. Nor does Abbas Uddin “Helal” say in the piece that he “used to be on the THCH board” not because of some benevolent offer made by the “young white director” of his positive acquaintance but because Tower Hamlets Council was required to have a pro-democratic presence on those boards and that Abbas Uddin “Helal” was one of a number of sitting councillors who were nominated by the Council to be on that board. Why were the councillors on that “board”? The plain answer is: to mainly report back to the Council on how the transferred Council housing stock was being run by the ‘registered social landlords’. At which point we refer to Tower Hamlets Council’s chief executive’s office. Over the past four years, our movement has asked the Tower Hamlets Council’s Chief Executive to provide reports on what the “Councillors” [and any others, e.g. non-councillors who at the supposed “discretion” of the Council might be also nominated] were reporting back to the Council on their membership of those external bodies including THCH. We have not got anywhere. Why? Because the Orwellian “Democratic Services” unit of the Chief Executive’s Department has told us that there were no such reports! Not only that, the “Democratic Services” itself has no idea as to how many Tower Hamlets Councillors sit on such external bodies. There is no audit done by Tower Hamlets Council of the councillors who sit on external bodies or of what they do if anything. So Tower Hamlets Council has no evidential basis for making any claims on the effects of the policies of THCH on thousands of people who found their housing transferred from being public sector to the private sector in effect. For this reason the NEW homelessness that is being created in Tower Hamlets will have to “accept” by Tower Hamlets Council. Why? Because their “partners” the RSLs that the Council created, are going to tell them that that is the way to go forward. On known statistic of the composition of the households in Tower Hamlets, a significant majority will be susceptible to be internally deported to other parts of the UK! Many of those will be to locations where “Eid” will be as strange and unheard of a word as “accountability” has been to the “Democratic Services” unit! Given this situation, what credibility will Ed Miliband have in claiming that HIS Party councillors are REPRESENTING any true alternative to the CONDEM agenda on housing?0030 Hrs
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