The mayor of London, Boris Johnson, has asked his deputy
to intervene in the increasingly bitter row involving tenants fighting a battle
to stay in their homes after a US investment company bought the estate with
plans to refurbish it and charge market rents. Johnson has no formal powers
over the New Era estate in Hoxton as it is private housing on private land. But
he has asked his deputy mayor for housing to talk to Westbrook Partners, the
property investment firm that bought the estate earlier this year, “in an
effort to try to find a favourable solution that would allow the tenants to
stay in their own homes”, the spokesman said. Read more on the Guardian
website.
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