| Description | Includes photocopy letter to Peter Shore MP from SHAC (a Housing Aid Centre) concerning homelessness and conditions, 1977; papers from Shelter Housing Emergency Office; orrespondence from Tower Hamlets NALGO relating to homelessness and housing; British Street Tenants' Association relating to need for maintenance and improvements by estate name in British Street area, with petition; Photocopy list of signatures on petition by Andrewes House, Wapping relating to defects and issues with conditions; issues in transfer of responsibilities from Greater London Council Social Services to Housing and related evictions; list of tenants in Casson Street; issues at Riverside Mansions; letters from named tenants and prospective tentants; council rents; Stephen and Matilda Tenants' Co-operative; Greencoat Tenants' Association concerning cutbacks and need for a community centre; Homeless Persons Bill; letter from LBTH Chief Executive to Beasley referring to Varden Street and Bengali Housing Action Group; Poplar West Housing Co-operative correspondence; letters relating to noise and landlord and tenant and squatters in Finnis Street; difficult to let properties; acquisition of properties in Campbell Road by the Springfield Housing Association including named tenants; meeting with Waterlow Tenants' Association including named tenants; conditions in Wilmott Street; Denning Point Tenants' Association and complaint over noise from Commercial Street with traffic noise survey and letter from GPs concerning health implications on sleep patterns; O'Leary Square nuisances caused by children; restrictions on public expenditure and housing of homeless of single people and young couple ballot; refuse in container chambers; services for homeless tubecular alcholics; squatters in Parfett and Myrdle Streets; Sumner House Defence Committee relating to the plight of homeless families; future of 49-81 Whitehorn Street; council's involvement in housing associations; letter from Springboard Housing Association Limited on squatting and evictions in Havering Street and plan for use of properties.
Printed material includes:
'Daily Mirror Longsight's Biggest Daily Sale Shock Revelation! Clorius - Ex-Employee Reveals All!' A Report by the Longsight Tenants Association relating to fight against heat metering in Manchester.
LBTH 'housing waiting list points scheme' leaflet.
'A report on the housing need of young people in the borough of Tower Hamlets'. Compiled by Linda Watts of the Wayhome Project. published by the Wakefield Trust, Oct 1975.
'London Tenant' The Newspaper of the Association of London Housing Estates, numbers1-2 (February and April 1976). |