A Peer is a person who can stand up in Parliament and make this statement:
Tower Hamlets has a significant problem of overcrowding[...]other areas of the borough remain with old, run-down private housing.
With over 20,000 families on the waiting list [...]it is of extreme importance that this Government begin to address the housing crisis in the public and private sectors.
Hansard: Housing in England 26 Oct 1998 : Column 1764
Or this one:
My Lords, what are the Government’s plans in relation to what the Prime Minister said earlier today in the other place about extending the house building programme each year? Will that have any bearing on relieving overcrowding, especially in the boroughs that she mentioned?
Hansard:Housing: Overcrowding 11 July 2007 : Column 1385
With a dead straight face, whilst occupying one of the very social housing units that might have relieved the overcrowding she was so concerned about.
Spittlefields Housing Association has a Lettings Policy.
Spitalfields HA works together with Tower Hamlets Common Housing Register Partners to meet local housing needs through ‘Choice Based Lettings’. This system gives the applicants more choice about where they want to live. It was introduced to replace the old complicated system where applicants were awarded points depending on your housing circumstances. Community Groups are a way for us to make sure that we comply with the Government’s rules about who should be given reasonable preference for housing. Normally, each eligible application will be included in one of these four groups:
2.2.1 Group 1: Community Gain 2.2.2 Group 2: Community Priority
2.2.3 Group 3: Community Mobility 2.2.4 Group 4: Community General
If you still can’t understand how Baroness Uddin came to be occupying (and claiming second home allowance on another, perfectly good, but unoccupied, home in Kent) You might wish to take advantage of this little gem, courtesy of Old Holborn.
Phone up the Housing Officer, Faruque Uddin, on 0207 392 5415 – ask him what criteria his namesake came under in order to take priority over all those vulnerable people patiently waiting on his list.
You might also wish to write to Baroness Uddin, since she is so interested in the subject, and ask her to oversee the assessment of the Spittlefields Housing Association with the Regulatory Code Part 2:
The governing body, supported by appropriate governance and executive arrangements, maintains satisfactory control of the organisation.
Here’s her e-mail address:
uddinm@parliament.uk
Go on, she works for you, you pay her. Several times what she is worth.
Anna is the landlady of the Raccoon Arms. She lives in the Monbazillac area of South West France and still takes a keen interest in British politics.
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This is SCANDALOUS!
I am very very important and you are a nobody! In my country you would be whipped for such insolence!
How can you be important – you live in a Council House, we have a class system here, don’t you know?
Have just looked up Spitalfields Housing Association Ltd. I see that Ala Uddin is the Vice Chair and Abdus Uddin is the Cusomer Services Officer. Ha! Ha!
According to Wikipedia (I know!), but according to Wikipedia, Uddin is one of the most common Bangladeshi (told you she was common) names.
‘A lot of Western migrants choose to call themselves Uddin’ – why do they all want to have the same name eh?
As in ‘Uddin dipping their fingers in the till again?’
Answers on an unstamped postcard.
Farrouqe must have knocked off early. I left a rather interesting message on his voice mail though…..
and Janes, some other Uddin is the housing maintenance manager.
Why isn’t this story all over the media?
Oh, I know, it’s not important and “within the rules”
Fraud for them OKAY for us – gaol!!!
Talk about opportunism gone crazy Did they think for one minute that the truth wouldnt come out?
Christ on a crutch ( sorry I know Im Hindu but I like these expressions)