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West End Extra - LETTERS TO THE EDITOR
Published: 2 May 2008

Let down on homes

• TWO years ago, there was a scandal about the Church Commissioners selling their homes to housing associations and private companies.
Genesis Housing Group and Grainger bought, at a special rate, a vast number of the Church Commissioners’ homes. It was argued that HAs were “not for profit” companies working for the social housing market, and so, somehow or other, this was OK.
The inevitable has begun. According to the advertisement on page 4 of your April 25 edition (Auction sale), the process of selling off at auction has started, with two homes to go under the hammer in a week.
The Church Commissioners should know better than to sell off their housing in this ways.
They have let us all down.
Peter Rutherford
Independent Federation of Genesis Residents

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