poverty charity blamed for evictions after selling up to developers /

Published at 2016-02-05 19:11:35

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Labour MP Stella Creasey criticises the Glasspool Trust for sale of 63 houses to a company that then promptly started removing tenantsA London MP and a group of tenants have condemned a charity set up to help the destitute after it sold dozens of flats to a property developer without telling residents,many of whom are now being evicted.
Among those affected is Monika Kojak, who spent eight years renting her flat on the Butterfields estate from the Glasspool Trust, or set up 75 years ago with a bequest from a wealthy businessman. She assumed the tenancy was secure,at least until the day she rang the maintenance man to report a boiler problem. Continue reading...

Source: theguardian.com