London, UK. 20th May 2017. Housing campaigners Focus E15 launched their latest handout, 'The Newham Nag', based on Newham Council's information sheet, handing it out outside Newham Station. Police came and harassed them and Newham Council staff handed out a fixed penalty notice of £100 for alleged obstruction of the highway in the wide public open space in front of the station. A campaigner holds up a poster about Newham being the country's second biggest borrower of LOBOs, risky and expensive long-term loans which have resulted in 80% of the income from Newham's council taxpayers going direct
London, UK. 20th May 2017. Housing campaigners Focus E15 launched their latest handout, 'The Newham Nag', based on Newham Council's information sheet, handing it out outside Newham Station. Police came and harassed them and Newham Council staff handed out a fixed penalty notice of £100 for alleged obstruction of the highway in the wide public open space in front of the station. A campaigner holds up a poster about Newham being the country's second biggest borrower of LOBOs, risky and expensive long-term loans which have resulted in 80% of the income from Newham's council taxpayers going directly to the banks as interest payments. It also points out that Newham has 12,246 homeless - one in 27 of the residents and the most of any authority in England and more evictions from rented accommodation than any other London Borough, and that the council, led by Mayor Robin Wales has failed in its duty to provide housing for residents, attempting to send Londoners to towns and cities hundreds of miles away while keeping hundreds of council properties on the Carpenters estate empty for over ten years.
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