But how have tenants spokesperson for a Cold War.
*Tonight I went to visit mother of a three-yearold child, says Christine, water was into the flat. The walls of the bedroom were covered in a black mould.
Conditions in many of the counciis estates are ap palling. Yet have risen Dv. IS( years. •We've had weren't kept. We're just to take anymore!' Caught in a Cold Warpaints a picture of increasing deprivation for the WeRT nine percent of tenants are in arrears in Brent and this of Labour fared? CHRISTINE WINTER (Brent East CLP), a Brent Tenants talks to Socialist Challenge about the report; Caught in years. While housing costs or a tamiv-sized counci house have increased 15 house will have become 3.4 percent cheaper to run since September '81!
As the rent/rates bill increases in geometic progression, tenants are torcHence the report's title. Brent however this crisis is greater because as tenants ott the neaung their homes begin to rot. In 1974 the incoming Labour Council were mei with an agreement to build a new estate at Church End by William Old The Church End development built by William Old, depends o constant heating in all rooms. Its Resiform structure actually rots heating turned off nese wood-and-plaster board hovels were Conssiones by a Tory Council in very However Labour has been in power in Brent for eight years.
*The balance-sheet isn't very promising Labour just tinkered wil it savs Christine . The end result is the black mould and an unusualv high in cidence of respiratory disease on the estate In fact the right-wing dominated council about to cut a further £1000 maintenance as well as to raise the rates Clearly we in the
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COUNCILS throughout the country face enor- mous cuts while tenants face further hardship.