Residents of Walthamstow estate unaware their homes had been sold until eviction notices were handed outDozens of families who faced eviction from their homes in north-east London after a charity sold them without warning to property developers could be reprieved after an affordable housing group offered to step in and buy them.
Residents on the Butterfields estate in Walthamstow have endured months of uncertainty after their affordable-rent flats were sold by the Glasspool Trust,a poverty charity that had owned them for decades. The deal happened without tenants being told, with many only learning approximately it after they received eviction letters in the post.
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Source: theguardian.com