Interviews with people dealing with housing problems and welfare cuts. Dislike for those who let it all happen.
Kate Belgrave
Journalist and blogger
Contact:
kate@katebelgrave.com
Homepage photos courtesy of Latoya, the mother of the little boy with autism in the first episode.
A third Hackney council attempt to evict a disabled child and his family!
Does Hackney council's persecution of this disabled and autistic child and his family go on and on or what. This Friday - 18 September - Hackney council will make ANOTHER attempt to force 8 year old Kayden and his family out of their council home and into temporary housing. Charity, the boy's mother, has been told that she must agree by Friday to leave the family's council home of 20 years and move into temporary housing - even though the council could let them stay. Charit...
19 Jul 2026
Council says putting disabled boy into temporary housing will teach him to deal with temporary housing
Oh dear. We return to Hackney council - and the council's ongoing attempts to evict a disabled and autistic 8 year old boy and his family from their council home. As regular listeners will know, the council wants to evict the family and put them into temporary housing - even though the boy's medical supporters and teachers say the move will have a terrible effect on him. I was at a meeting about 10 days ago with the boy's teachers and a paediatric doctor. A council soc...
7 Jul 2026
Is Newham council evicting poor people into red alert summer heat?
My source says Yes. The council says nothing. A whistleblower tells me that Newham council has a new policy and a team to forcefully moving homeless people in temporary housing into even worse temporary housing because it is cheaper. Families get very little notice. A council officer calls them on a burner phone and says the family has to move to the cheaper and crappier place immediately, or they'll have no housing at all. . My sources tell me that in the recent heatwave, o...
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