Shareholders Special General Meeting.
25th June 2001.
A message from WHHA tenants to their
shareholders.
At this meeting, please vote "No" because:
1. There is lack of openness, straightforwardness and
transparency in PCHA's behaviour. For instance: why is this
meeting closed?
2. The letter from the chair, Mr. Parkhill, is not
consistent with the Question & Answers sheet, and also
with what PCHA's Mr. Tom McGregor has said to tenants. This
is particularly true of the "what if the vote is No" issue.
Why didn't tenants contribute facts and views to the Q.
& A. sheets?
3. There is no mention of the phantom "Beechwood
Housing Association" in the papers sent to us.
4. Mr. Parkhill's letter + Q.& A. sheets
present more problems than they solve.
5. We are to merge (or are we?) with Genesis, an
organisation which is a few weeks old, and has no track
record.
6. PCHA has failed in almost every respect
imaginable, except financial. Maintenance, housing
management, communication with tenants are just as bad.
7. There has been NO CONSULTATION WITH TENANTS of
any sort. But they have informed tenants about what has
happened and what is to happen. Mr. McGregor admitted this
at one of the tenants information meetings. The Housing
Corporations's Section D8 regulation has simply been
ignored.
8. Joining Genesis may get the accountants out of a
bad spot but tenants have not been told how joining will
help them. If Genesis cannot, or chooses not to help with
rehousing, what is the use of them to us?
9. Genesis has £1,000,000,000 in assets,
accumulated, we believe, on the backs of people just like
us. If it cannot, or chooses not to help with refurbishing,
what is the use of them to us?
10. Why is there no tenant representative on WHHA's
board?
11. We hear much about the demands of lenders. Do
shortlife tenants even need them? Do permanent tenants even
need them? Who does? Answer: the P.S.L. accounts which are
technically competent now but in rack and ruin.
12. We have been offered no alternative to Genesis.
13. PCHA have reneged on every promise put on the table
by the Housing Corporation's troubleshooter at a meeting on
February 15th.
14. and above all, because all shortlife tenants who have
come in for any attention from PCHA have been treated like
four ounces of chopped liver.
Lets see WHHA stable + corrections made +
another vote
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