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'Housing chiefs could do more'.
December 7, 2007.
Dear Sir,
Your article "Elderly are left
without heating for two weeks", (Wood & Vale,
November 30) highlights what goes wrong when the
Genesis Housing Group, (owner of Paddington
Churches Housing Association), an unaccountable
organisation run by accountants and chaired by the
managing director of the Royal Bank of Canada
(Europe) Limited has a regulator, the Housing
Corporation, which does not regulate.
You report that their engineer said
that he is really sorry but there is nothing he can
do. Yes, there is. He could supply all the tenants
with 3KW fan heaters, read their electricity
meters, and tell them that electricity will be paid
by the landlord until the job is done to a
satisfactory standard. After all, Genesis make a
profit of around £120,000 per day, and can
afford to pay their chief executive, Mr Anu Vedi,
around £4,000 per week.
Tenants should remember that PCHA
have a Compensation Policy. They should each ask
for a copy, and claim for the loss of amenity, loss
of enjoyment and suffering caused by this wholly
avoidable outrage.
Yours sincerely,
Peter Rutherford,
Independent Federation of
Genesis Residents.
http://www.whhashortlife.co.uk
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