“It turns my stomach to see how profit is being put before people in this way, and the terrible cost that others are being forced to pay” says Green Party Councillor Scott Ainslie as Lambeth’s Labour council prepares to evict another wave of people from their residencies.
The Lambeth Green Party has renewed calls for an end to the Labour Council’s policy of evicting housing co-op tenants in the face of more planned evictions this week.
The policy has been opposed by politicians from across the political spectrum including the Green Party’s Vauxhall Parliamentary candidate Gulnar Hasnain, and Labour MP for Vauxhall Kate Hoey. In the face of widespread criticism, even from people within their own party, Lambeth Labour persist with destroying people’s homes and lives.
Scott Ainslie photographed in Brixton for an interview with Brixton Buzz.
This policy is devastating communities in Lambeth and taking vital support networks away from more vulnerable residents. On Wednesday 22 April at 11.40am, for example, Lambeth Labour plan to evict Trace Newton, a disabled 56-year-old housing co-op resident from her home of 35 years on Lillieshall Road. There will be a protest from 11am against the eviction.
Green Party Councillor Scott Ainslie said: “Labour councillors appear to be deliberately ignoring the distress and pain they are inflicting through their policy of breaking up co-ops and selling off housing to developers. Blinded by the money the council is making, they are riding rough-shod over the needs and wishes of local residents.
“It turns my stomach to see how profit is being put before people in this way, and the terrible cost that others are being forced to pay.”