How many refugees could be housed in the accommodation?   As many as a lack of moral responsibility and human decency allowed.    At the time of the housing crisis caused by the influx of Somali refugees, a very bad landlord was housing those unfortunate people in grossly overcrowded conditions in a local hell-hole known as “The Royal Crimea Guest House”.  Due to the overcrowding (wall-to-wall mattresses) and denial of cooking facilities at night, a child was scalded with boiling water.  It was Gorky’s Lower Depths here in  W3.   The occupants turned to us, their neighbours, for help, even gave us letters to represent them, even allowed us to photograph the conditions they were living in.    Cudmore had a legal officer tell us we could not represent them without power of attorney. Who was the bad landlord?  Ealing Council.  It was using the place as a hostel (in contravention of planning regulations). Have standards of human decency improved?   No.   A subsequent landlord was recently housing tenants in rooms with damp, mouldy walls; the fire-escape route was blocked with rubbish and old furniture and the smoke alarm taped over. What was Ealing Council’s reaction?    It was to reappoint the landlord as a “fit and proper person” to have managerial control of an HMO.  They were presumably judging him by their own standards.   Who was the officer who reappointed him? Mark Wiltshire.    What is his role? Director of Safer Communities and Housing!  Licensor of filth and fire-hazard more like. There you have Ealing Council. Two decades of betrayal of "generation rent". Another drama comes to mind:  Ibsen’s An Enemy of the People.

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Topic	Date Posted	Posted By
Refugee children	20/05/19 23:04:00	Graham Weeks
Re:Refugee children	21/05/19 00:50:00	Rosco White
Re:Re:Refugee children	21/05/19 09:53:00	Andrew Farmer

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