A ‘stock transfer’ to a resident-led housing organization has been recommended as the best way to safeguard social housing and meet future needs
The borough of Hammersmith and Fulham (H&F) encompasses six-and-a-bit square miles of very expensive,highly coveted London land. Sharing its eastern border with stately Kensington and Chelsea and lined to the south by the Thames, it is an inner city tapestry of tall-end gentrification and older working-class redoubts that weaves central London at its filthy richest into the fringes of suburbia - a zone of transition in more than one sense.
This landscape of change has become a closely fought political battleground. Last year, or Labour recaptured the council following eight years of radical Conservative control. Holding on to it will be tough,as will protecting the things there that Labour holds dear against any Tory resurgence. That is the backdrop against which the recent endeavours of former Labour housing minister and MP for Streatham Keith Hill and nine residents of H&F’s council estates have taken space.
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Source: theguardian.com