Eviction Brixton - UK Indymedia
We are 75 people living in six blocks of flats in central Brixton who
are facing eviction from our homes on July 15th. We live in property
that Lambeth Council has not maintained or looked after for the past
thirty years. Lambeth council is pushing ahead with its plan to drive
more of us out of Brixton, to develop private housing, only affordable
for the ultra rich. Now we are being ripped out of our homes to make
space for ‘corporate clients’ (see letter below). Foxton’s will charge
people upwards of £2000/week to stay in our flats and/or they will sell
them for half a million pounds.
Most of us have lived in the properties for many years, often decades.
One person has been here 32 years. Some have families. Lambeth claim
they will renovate three buildings as social housing and sell the
others. This is a story we have heard before. We have watched them sell
off, bit by bit, all properties from previous evictions on Rushcroft
Road, Clifton Mansions and a large proportion of Brixton’s original short life housing.
They will do the same to these flats. Central Brixton will be
gentrified – and those who are already here (like us) be pushed out.
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