Knowsley Housing Trust has been up to the old Council Housing Departments tricks in sending out threatening letters to tenants. Maybe it's the spirit of Christmas, but the threatening letter we feature came with an added warning apart from the usual office cock ups which can often mean tenants receive letters warning of eviction etc due to alleged unpaid rent. It is hard to estimate how many people have been through this unpleasant process, but there will be poor pensioners and other vulnerable people who are subject to this ruthless policy the Council and now the Housing trust have regarding debts. As Kirkby Times has shown, even tenants wrongfully accused of Fraud won't receive an apology or any explanations.

Knowsley Housing Trust has gone a step further than the old Council Housing Department. Now, along with demands to pay imaginary owed rent, they are sending out a bright red piece of paper, warning tenants that missing rent means they won't receive vital repairs. As they put it "You may be excluded from programmed improvements if you have not maintained a satisfactory rent account for 12 months prior to the program starting" We reproduce the stark warning below

Racist Grafitti Up For over A Year!

Kirkby Times will soon have an updated photo gallery and also a short video of conditions which may well shock some people not used to conditions in some of Kirkby's areas. We can also report that the Councils Anti Racist stance does not extend to cleaning up racist graffiti. There are and have been Black people living in the block where the racist graffiti is. It is worrying when the Council and now the Housing Trust can treat this as an apparentely trivial matter. Kirkby Times will be out there with a paint tin and brush, and if we do, a receipt will be going direct to the Housing Trust. On a lighter note, other graffiti can also be seen including a really funny one by the kids here! The Block Kirkby Times has featured in an online gallery is now in a condition that can only be described as uninhabitable. This did not stop Knowsley Housing Trust sending out Rent Books. See how much you can rent these slums for below.

One Sided 'Partnership'

The best efforts of the tenants in trying to keep the place clean has been in vain. There is NO partnership between tenants and the Housing Trust and it would in all honesty be best if local Tenants organised themselves independently. 'Partnerships' with these organisations are all one sided, and so far the Housing Trust have not even distributed a solitary leaflet to inform tenants of the next stage in the much needed repairs and demolition programs needed here. Before the sell off, we were inundated with material saying how we'd all be kept informed by the new Housing Trust. We have since met a Wall of Silence.

Below, £52.16p to live in a dump. Knowsley Housing Trust Just throw vandalised Doors up now to save the kids the bother!