Tenants opposed to the social cleansing of city centres will protest outside an auction at a luxury hotel where property developers and private landlords will bid for £7.2m worth of former social flats and houses. They include three housing association flats in Croydon, two housing association flats in Camberwell and a housing association house in Harlesden. Genesis is set to merge with neighbouring London housing association Notting Hill Housing, which is selling five flats worth more than £1.6m in the auction. Both of them have lost sight of their mission to provide decent social housing in areas like Paddington.”The auctioning of social homes was depriving her constituents of vital social housing, she added. Sales of housing association social homes to the private sector have more than tripled since 2001, with 3,891 social homes sold in 2016.

Source: The Guardian March 24, 2018 14:18 UTC