barnet housing action

 

 

The Barnet Housing Action Group has been set up in response to the alarming situation where up to half a million tenants have now fallen into arrears and are being hauled into the court room - largely as the direct result of the dreaded 'bedroom tax' and also the imposition of council tax on people who do not have enough to live on.

 

Already this has affected some 3000 Barnet citizens. Barnet council has not built any social housing at all for decades and now boasts of the 3 units it is beginning to build! This will hardly make up for the 18,000 households on the housing waiting list which it simply abolished last year!

 

Now, with thousands of people chased out of central London by rising rents and benefit caps etc., Barnet council is preparing to welcome new better-off residents to boost council coffers and making ready to dump its poor elsewhere! 

 

Meanwhile 1400 homeless people on the streets chase 700 places and the council itself admits that "There are enough empty properties in Barnet to provide hundreds of people with a home."

 

Barnet Housing Action has begun to make contact with tenants on some of Barnet's housing estates and welcomes any householder, tenant, private or 'social' homeless - anyone concerned to remedy this catastrophic situation: to do all possible right now to see that no one in Barnet loses their home or is forced into destitution......