Demolition Derby

Dundee Tenants have rejected housing stock transfer with its danger of secret deals and unnecessary demolitions. So those who are managing the privatisation ofpublic assets (the Scottish Executive’s neo liberal economic agenda via Communities Scotland) have decided to proceed anyway but locals "know the score."It is not surprising that the, right wing, Daily Record should wish to show the
Dundee Council in a bad light just as the publicly funded Glasgow housing
Association Limited is happy to show itself in up as being a terrible and
heartless landlord to those tenants it wishes to manipulate, encourage and bully
into clearing themselves out in order to vacate or ‘free up the land ‘ for
private development.

Glasgow Save Our Homes Camaign Tenants also want answers. It is time the
Scottish Executive engaged in genuine dialogue about housing policy and ensured
that landlords adhered to the TENANT PARTICIPATION as contained in the 2001
Housing Act for Scotland. Tenants are being denied their legal right to shape
the decisions that affect their lives.



Daily Record7 September 2005 wrote:

TENANTS FIGHT TO SAVE MULTI-STOREYS
ANGRY tenants are battling council bosses to save their multi-storey homes. The five blocks, which are near Dundee's Ninewells Hospital, have been earmarked as part of a £2million demolition programme. City housing chiefs said the 14-storey blocks - with great views over the Tay -were structurally poor and unwanted. Many of the 2000 residents have formed an action group claiming their tight-knit community is "being dtroyed." The group, called Defend Dundee Council Housing, claim the city council has refused to release all the information surrounding its reasons for demolition. Group spokesman Tony Cox said: "All we want is answers to our questions but they are making us jump through hoops.