'Buy-to-leave' policy is a blight on the area
THIS week David Orr, chief executive of the National Housing Federation, said that for too long there had been a chronic shortage of social rented homes in this country.
He warned that with repossession rates likely to rise because of the credit crunch, there is a need for more good quality affordable housing. He went on to condemn the trend for people and organisations to buy properties simply to leave them empty.
But surely that is exactly what ERYC has done with the purchase of the 100 properties in Richard Cooper Street and Phoenix Street? It bought the houses, emptied them of their families and then left them to be stripped and vandalised.
ERYC, however, calls this "regeneration", and "Advancing Goole" and is determined to continue with its "buy-to-leave" policy no matter what blight it brings to the area. In local authority speak it is apparently okay to run down communities and leave houses empty, all in the name of progress.
Alan Wilson
Boothferry Road
Goole
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19 June 2008 10:33 AM
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