Knowsley Housing Trust released a video before the Housing up here was handed over to them. The video showed how it was going to be once the Trust got control of the Housing stock here and it was posted out to all Knowsley Councils tenants. Kirkby Times has also released a video. We have given a link below so the video can be downloaded to view right away, or 'right clicked and saved as' so you can save the video.

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Service Charges?

The video was taken in a Tower Block, still occupied by tenants, but the actual conditions are so bad that it could in all truth be said to be uninhabitable. Knowsley Housing Trust charges £52 a week for rent and 'service charges'. What services exactly we are being charged for is a mystery to tenants and the Housing Trust themselves who will inform neither myself nor local councilors as to why there is a service charge.The service charges don't include cleaning up racist graffiti, check out the graffiti below. It will have been up for 2 years next year.

Jail the Architects

Rumours abound that the Tower Blocks in which the Video was shot will be ordering tenants to move out by March. The Housing Trust are happy to charge for rent till whenever they decide to inform tenants that their homes will be likely demolished. Eventually, all the Tower Blocks in Kirkby will be demolished; it's just a pity we cannot put the architects in there for a few months to let them see what an almighty mess they have created. The people who built Hi Rise blocks should be dragged screaming from whatever luxury house they occupy and be made to compensate every last Working Class Person who has had to live in the hell of a Tower Block.

OAP's victimised

It would also be beneficial to tenants if the Housing Trust Management spent a few weeks here living in the slums they are happy to rent out to us. As we reported, the housing Trust are actually sending threatening letters to tenants. We can report further that there have been a LOT of letters sent out claiming people owe rent arrears, this is possibly due to a fault with new software the Council installed, either way, sending out a letter 2 weeks before Christmas telling pensioners they owe a couple of hundred quid is a damn disgrace. Kirkby Times wishes those responsible the very worse for Christmas. All the best to the ordinary workers who know the management are full of it.