"We'll fight any plan to sell our homes". Camden tenants get a solemn warning from the Fed. 21/12/2006.   Dear Editor, Your comment, along with your front page story, highlights the catastrophe that would be the making over of council properties to housing associations, with or without the tenants' approval. Genesis, aka Paddington Churches housing association, runs with more secrecy than a stealth bomber, and only a little less wastefully. Board meetings are secret, both agendas and minutes and so are those of the toothless and worthless tenants' consultative groups. Their Annual General Meetings are also behind closed doors. Council tenants have already made it clear that they want none of this; the matter should not be raised again. But the real puzzle is why the seven page document presented to the meeting on December 11th (available [here] to the public on demand) fails to mention two important possibilities; these are the best from of social housing known to me, housing co-operatives, and secondly, the bringing into the equation and fully resourcing "Defend Council Housing" to act as a friend and ally. The government is facing a General Election in the near future, and DCH are quite capable of presenting a case which will frighten the wits out of ministers who have not one shred of evidence to support their contention that the £283million may be safely spend by housing associations but not by Camden Council. The Independent Federation of Genesis Residents hold a wheelbarrow's-worth of evidence that, actually, quite the opposite is true. If the wrong decision is made, the fallout will last for a generation. Yours sincerely, Peter Rutherford Press Relations, IFGR. Independent Federation of Genesis Residents PO Box 50782, NW6.   Back to the IFGR web site Back to the WHHA/Pathmeads web site