Green Hackney council will evict a disabled autistic boy with bailiffs next week. Greens were fighting the eviction before they won power

In series 4 of the podcast, I covered Charity's story - which was that then-Labour Hackney council was trying to evict Charity and her disabled and autistic 8 year old boy with bailiffs. 

The issue: Charity does not have a tenancy for the council home she's lived in for more than 18 years. She didn't realise her sister in law should have assigned the tenancy to Charity when the sister in law left. 

The Greens took the family's side when Labour tried to evict them before the May local elections. They even turned up to defend the family when bailiffs were due to evict them in February. 

Now, the Greens are in power - and eviction by bailiffs is planned for next week. 

Plus ça change, my friends. 

Let me say this. Elected councillors need to learn to stand up to housing officers. That's the problem. 

You get staff who've been there for years who know the law and who use every trick in the book to crush poor families as in this case. 

Then you get novice councillors elected who do not know how to play the game. 

They need to learn and fast. 

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