Skip Nav | Home | Mobile | Editorial Guidelines | Mission Statement | About Us | Contact | Help | Security | Support Us

World

Curo Group Somer Housing

A Tenant | 26.07.2012 09:16 | Analysis | Social Struggles | South Coast | World

VULTURE CAPITALISTS ATTEMPT TO SEIZE OWNERSHIP AND CONTROL OF THE CHARITABLE ASSETS OF SOMER HOUSING TRUST A REGISTERED CHARITY



OUR MESSAGE TO THE UNELECTED, UNREPRESENTATIVE & UNACCOUNTABLE 15 BOARD MEMBERS OF SOMER COMMUNITY HOUSING TRUST IS TO TAKE A STEP BACK AND CAREFULLY RECONSIDER ITS OUTRAGEOUS PROPOSALS TO, WE BELIEVE, WILFULLY MISUSE THE CHARITABLE ASSETS OF SOMER COMMUNITY HOUSING TRUST.

ITS STATED AIM OF TURNING SOMER INTO "A MORE COMMERCIAL ORGANISATION..TO CHARGE MARKET LEVEL RENTS WITH MINIMUM SECURITY OF TENURE...TO SELL EXISTING & NEW BUILD HOUSES & FLATS ON THE OPEN MARKET" ETC., IS NO MORE THAN A DESPERATE ATTEMPT TO STAVE OFF ITS PRECARIOUS FINANCIAL POSITION IE: AN UNSUSTAINABLE £178 MILLION PLUS DEBT WHICH MUST BE REPAID WITH INTEREST OVER THE NEXT 20 YEARS. THIS ON TOP OF £75 MILLION PLUS IN INTEREST CHARGES ALREADY PAID OUT OF TENANTS RENTS IN THE PAST 12 YEARS.

TENANTS WILL NOT SIT IDLY BY WHILE THE VULTURE CAPITALISTS WHO HAVE HIJACKED THE SOMER HOUSING BOARD OF GOVERNANCE AND WHO CONSPIRE BEHIND OUR BACKS TO TAKE AWAY SOMER HOUSINGS CHARITABLE STATUS WHILE AT THE SAME TIME SENDING TENANTS GLOSSY PROPAGANDA LEAFLETS TELLING US THAT SOMER HOUSING IS NOW GOING TO BE KNOWN AS THE CURO GROUP, "CURO BEING THE LATIN FOR WE CARE", WHEN IN REALITY SOMER HOUSING IS STILL IN LAW A SEPERATE LEGAL ENTITY REGISTERED AS SUCH WITH THE CHARIITY COMMISSION WITH ONE OF ITS STATED AIMS BEING "TO PROVIDE DECENT AFFORDABLE HOUSING TO THOSE MOST IN NEED."

EVEN THEIR INTERPRETATION OF THE LATIN WORD CURO IS A DECEPTION AS CURO ACTUALLY MEANS IN A BUSINESS SENSE "TO PROCURE MONEY."

WE CALL ON ALL SOMER TENANTS WHO ARE CONCERNED ABOUT THE FUTURE OF OUR SOCIAL HOUSING TO STAND UP AND RESIST THIS ATTEMPT TO SELLOFF OUR AFFORDABLE HOMES, RIGHTS AND SECURITY LIKE CATTLE ON THE OPEN MARKET TO THE PRIVATE SECTOR.

WE SAY NOW IS THE TIME TO TRANSFER OUR SOCIAL HOUSING BACK INTO THE CONTROL & OWNERSHIP OF THE LOCAL AUTHORITY THEREBY SAFEGAURDING EXISTING & FUTURE TENANTS RIGHT TO DECENT, AFFORDABLE, SUSTAINABLE & SECURE HOMES.

REGARDS,

ALEXANDER TenantsAgainstTheCuts Bath

A Tenant

Comments

Hide the following comment

Cassandra - the power of prophacy: CURO / Somer

09.06.2016 16:46

I have to say that not only Cassandra but now ALEXANDER have this power. How right you were my friend. While the executives sit sipping wine and eating out at tenent's expense, they add electric cars, solar panels and Landrovers (perhaps these are needed to off-road in the estates over the piles of rotting rubbish and over grown grass?) to their empire. Tenants cry out for repairs, the vulnerable are neglected but there pay packets bulge.

How long before the fox hill estate roads are named after these people? Louise Lane, Dacuhna Drive, Gerreint Green, Money Grabbing Grove, Don't Care Drive.

If any tenants can get to talk to these people - start asking questions (though they are probably out at lunch or promoting there next business venture.

They are breaking up your estates, separating families and communities. They just want the money fame and power.

Curo employee


Publish

Publish your news

Do you need help with publishing?

/regional publish include --> /regional search include -->

World Topics

Afghanistan
Analysis
Animal Liberation
Anti-Nuclear
Anti-militarism
Anti-racism
Bio-technology
Climate Chaos
Culture
Ecology
Education
Energy Crisis
Fracking
Free Spaces
Gender
Globalisation
Health
History
Indymedia
Iraq
Migration
Ocean Defence
Other Press
Palestine
Policing
Public sector cuts
Repression
Social Struggles
Technology
Terror War
Workers' Movements
Zapatista

Kollektives

Birmingham
Cambridge
Liverpool
London
Oxford
Sheffield
South Coast
Wales
World

Other UK IMCs
Bristol/South West
London
Northern Indymedia
Scotland

Server Appeal Radio Page Video Page Indymedia Cinema Offline Newsheet

secure Encrypted Page

You are viewing this page using an encrypted connection. If you bookmark this page or send its address in an email you might want to use the un-encrypted address of this page.

If you recieved a warning about an untrusted root certificate please install the CAcert root certificate, for more information see the security page.

IMCs


www.indymedia.org

Projects
print
radio
satellite tv
video

Africa

Europe
antwerpen
armenia
athens
austria
barcelona
belarus
belgium
belgrade
brussels
bulgaria
calabria
croatia
cyprus
emilia-romagna
estrecho / madiaq
galiza
germany
grenoble
hungary
ireland
istanbul
italy
la plana
liege
liguria
lille
linksunten
lombardia
madrid
malta
marseille
nantes
napoli
netherlands
northern england
nottingham imc
paris/île-de-france
patras
piemonte
poland
portugal
roma
romania
russia
sardegna
scotland
sverige
switzerland
torun
toscana
ukraine
united kingdom
valencia

Latin America
argentina
bolivia
chiapas
chile
chile sur
cmi brasil
cmi sucre
colombia
ecuador
mexico
peru
puerto rico
qollasuyu
rosario
santiago
tijuana
uruguay
valparaiso
venezuela

Oceania
aotearoa
brisbane
burma
darwin
jakarta
manila
melbourne
perth
qc
sydney

South Asia
india


United States
arizona
arkansas
asheville
atlanta
Austin
binghamton
boston
buffalo
chicago
cleveland
colorado
columbus
dc
hawaii
houston
hudson mohawk
kansas city
la
madison
maine
miami
michigan
milwaukee
minneapolis/st. paul
new hampshire
new jersey
new mexico
new orleans
north carolina
north texas
nyc
oklahoma
philadelphia
pittsburgh
portland
richmond
rochester
rogue valley
saint louis
san diego
san francisco
san francisco bay area
santa barbara
santa cruz, ca
sarasota
seattle
tampa bay
united states
urbana-champaign
vermont
western mass
worcester

West Asia
Armenia
Beirut
Israel
Palestine

Topics
biotech

Process
fbi/legal updates
mailing lists
process & imc docs
tech