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Another Labour Lambeth Housing Scandal as millions of pounds lost as houses left to rot.

Yesterday, I attended a meeting of the Brixton Area Leaseholders Forum.
As a leaseholder I know first hand the frustration with Lambeth housing services: incorrect service charges, rip-off maintenance charges, and terrible service levels.
Lambeth housing is in melt down. Every leaseholder has their own horror story to tell. People are angry and frustrated at how [...]

Labour Lambeth let down tenants before it took power in 2006 by failing to tell them it planned to set up the deeply unpopular Arms Length Management Organisation (ALMO), now called Lambeth Living…

Labour bosses face an investigation over a possible overspend of £22m in housing budgets. Houses were left empty while the council continued to pay private landlords for their use and it regularly took six weeks for new tenants…

Thousands of leaseholders across Lambeth are to receive huge bills for £5 million of work carried out on their estates as the country goes into recession and economic decline. Demands for five-figure sums will be sent to 3,500 leaseholders in the coming fortnight for works such as roof and windows replacements carried out as long as eight years ago. In almost all cases, the cash demands from Labour Lambeth are expected to be disputed because of the poor quality of the work and its exorbitant cost.

Labour Lambeth is raising rents for all its 33,000 hard up tenants by between £12 a week from March. That’s now official news. Every single tenant will be worse off from April when Labour councillors increase the average cost to every household on Lambeth estates by another £750 a year once rents and…