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Lobby Your MP on housing - but forget going to MP David Wright

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Written by John Franklyn

Monday, 02 June 2008

Lobby Your MP over Housing – But don’t bother MP David Wright

I see again that the Wrekin Housing Trust is selling off more houses at a time when there are hundreds of people on the housing waiting list.

We hear the trust says it cost a few thousand pounds to bring these houses up to standard.

So what!

What have they done with the money from previous house sales?

Can’t that be used for repairs?

Local Houses are being sold and hoses at Stafford are put on the Choose your home list.

I think people who have been waiting on the housing list should lobby their MP about this situation.

Name and address supplied.

Some fair comments, but unfortunately the situation is worse than the writer has highlighted.

The year before Choose your Home started the housing waiting list was at 5000, this was not a level acceptable to MP David Wright and he promised to arrange a housing summit – but unfortunately – his promises have proved to be absolutely worthless as 18 months later he has done nothing.

The Housing waiting list almost doubled in a period of 12 months which was the first year of the Choose Your Home Starting –

The current waiting list is over 9000, you can call Choose your Home what you want, but you cannot call it a success.

It is unfortunate that the attitude of Senior people within The Wrekin Housing Trust is far from professional and caring, but they will and do congratulate each other when they’ve managed to “Fob someone off” –

I get contacted with regards housing issues on a regular basis and have experienced the lousy attitudes from Wrekin Housing Trust staff.

On one instance a member of the The Wrekin Housing Trust makes an offer to a young teenage couple, who at that time had a homeless priority – the offer went as follows:-

“Hello Ms X, I am phoning from you from Choose Your Home to tell you that your application for property X has been successful - have you only got one child – right you cannot have it then”

This in itself highlights a flaw in the system and that flaw is – The Staff should have all the info in front of them before making an offer – the worst thing is – Jane Brookes of WHT blamed the couple for the attitude of the staff.

I have again been contacted with regards a serious issue and again a housing need – whilst I will not go into detail I will place below an extract from an email from Jane Brookes of the Wrekin Housing Trust:-

Thanks Joanne, nice reply.

Not sure if Debbie mentioned to you but I have been contacted by the telford council watch group. I am going to do a reply later today and will copy you in. It will have to be very non committal.

Jane

This highlights the disrespect staff in The Trust have for the people they are supposed to be helping but also are responsible for paying their wages.

The rot of the Housing situation continues,

Keith Austin said it would cheaper for the Council to pay for property to be brought up to relevant standard prior to the elections in May 07 and Andrew Eade agreed.

Unfortunately housing stock continues to be sold, homelessness increases but the current administration saw fit to remove £5,000 from its storage budget.

The likes of George Ashcroft has rattled on about it on his blog and was clearly an attempt to gain some popularity, but to date seems to have done nothing else but to talk a lot about a problem that getting worse as we speak.

The housing Trust seems to be selling some of its property through its own web site www.opendoor.co.uk

As Leader of The Council, Andrew Eade has seen at first hand the poor treatment residents are expected to endure, yet it continues.

An Open and honest Council

We were promised this Councillor Andrew Eade – yet – why won’t the council provide me with a list of assets that have identified for disposal.

Are we as residents expected to sit around and wait for the next “Eade Bay Auctions”

The Current Administration

The Current Administration has come under fire in the letters page recently from people who are / were supporters.

People are getting itchy feet when it comes to their performance and a number of people are now, without a doubt fed up with games being played.

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