We cannot wait for Brown's pot of gold 17 May 2007.   Dear Editor, Neither Councillor Chris Naylor or his adviser, Catherine Illingworth have any idea of the effect on council tenants of what they are planning to do (U-turn as Town Hall plans to sell estates, May 3).   Paddington Churches Housing Association, also known as the Genesis Housing Group, is likely to be a contender. It has shut down tenants associations, crossed tenants names off the ballot papers for elections to the board, run their committees in total secrecy, and sold several dozen homes at auction.   It has borrowed around £500million for reasons which are secret, and our rent money appears to be carrying the staggering cost of the interest repayments, which is probably why maintennace is so bad.   It is not alone in their attitudes and policies. The larger housing associations are all much of a muchness.   Cllr Naylor says that policies will make "a difference in the lot of people's lives". Yes, he is correct. They will have no accountability for the bad services that they will get. They will have a worthless complaints process, and an ombudsman who is seen by all tenants that I have met as a living joke, and responsible for the failure of the social housing sector to improve.   As for Ms Illingworth's "small amount of pain", there will be a massive amount of pain, followed by a generation's worth of blame and recrimination, and, of course, the electoral destruction of Liberal Democrats in this borough.   This administration should buy several complete sets of the BBC's "Yes Minister" programme, and ensure all council bosses study them avidly. I will happily provide a three hour examination paper, and failure to achieve 60 % ought to result in disqualification from office.   Yours sincerely,   Peter Rutherford. Independent Federation of Genesis Residents.     Back to the IFGR web site   Back to the WHHA/Pathmeads web site