Who voted for this
Interviews with people dealing with housing problems and welfare cuts. Dislike for those who let it all happen.
Kate Belgrave
Journalist and blogger
Contact:
kate@katebelgrave.com
Homepage photos courtesy of Latoya, the mother of the little boy with autism in the first episode.
Who voted for this
Council says putting disabled boy into temporary housing will teach him to deal with temporary housing
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Oh dear.
We return to Hackney council - and the council's ongoing attempts to evict a disabled and autistic 8 year old boy and his family from their council home.
As regular listeners will know, the council wants to evict the family and put them into temporary housing - even though the boy's medical supporters and teachers say the move will have a terrible effect on him.
I was at a meeting about 10 days ago with the boy's teachers and a paediatric doctor.
A council social worker at the meeting suggested that the move to temporary housing could be a good chance to see if the boy could cope with moving - because families in temporary housing are moved again and again and again.
Kill me. Seriously.
Meanwhile, the ruling Green party is at war with its own staff.
The Greens are apparently getting an external legal adviser in to see if the council's housing officers have behaved as they should have when dealing with this family.
Spoiler alert: they haven't.
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