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Birmingham council to sell off athletes’ village homes at more than £300m loss
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700 empty homes in Birmingham, originally designed as an athletes’ village for the Commonwealth Games, will be sold by the Labour council at a loss of more than £300m to the taxpayer.
Ayoub Khan, the independent MP for Perry Barr where the apartments are located, said it was an “absolute scandal” that the Labour-led authority had agreed last week to sell more than 700 homes to a private company in a deal forecast to result in a multimillion-pound loss.
Described by local people as a ghost town, with many flats standing empty for more than a year, was intended to be an athletes’ village for the Commonwealth Games, which Birmingham hosted in 2022.
How much has Birmingham council spent on emergency housing for the homeless, and bleating on about being skint, while 700 homes they own have stood empty. |
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By *atEvolutionCouple 15 weeks ago
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"Birmingham council spent more than £100 million on housing homeless people in bed and breakfasts and hostels last year
Could have housed them in these 700 empty homes. "
Have you asked them why they didn't? Because I don't think anyone here will know why. |
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By *atEvolutionCouple 15 weeks ago
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***According to the report, with Birmingham issuing a Section 114 notice in September 2023, the council has looked at the “options for disposal of the nearly complete plots six to nine and have received offers for plots or combinations of plots which are being considered”.
“However, alongside this consideration, cabinet [is] recommended to take the opportunity of retaining one block (plot nine) to use as general needs social housing, in order to meet the needs of residents waiting for available social housing,” it said.
The proposal to use the block for social housing is the preferred option in the report.
“With 23,000 people waiting for social housing in Birmingham, these units can be filled according to the allocation policy within a short time period, giving 213 people new homes, a portion of whom will currently be in council-funded temporary accommodation whilst they are waiting for social housing to become available,” it said.****
Let them get on with it really and soon homeless people will have a place to live.  |
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"700 empty homes in Birmingham, originally designed as an athletes’ village for the Commonwealth Games, will be sold by the Labour council at a loss of more than £300m to the taxpayer.
Ayoub Khan, the independent MP for Perry Barr where the apartments are located, said it was an “absolute scandal” that the Labour-led authority had agreed last week to sell more than 700 homes to a private company in a deal forecast to result in a multimillion-pound loss.
Described by local people as a ghost town, with many flats standing empty for more than a year, was intended to be an athletes’ village for the Commonwealth Games, which Birmingham hosted in 2022.
How much has Birmingham council spent on emergency housing for the homeless, and bleating on about being skint, while 700 homes they own have stood empty. "
Far better to get some cash back even at a loss than sit empty doing nothing. |
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"700 empty homes in Birmingham, originally designed as an athletes’ village for the Commonwealth Games, will be sold by the Labour council at a loss of more than £300m to the taxpayer.
Ayoub Khan, the independent MP for Perry Barr where the apartments are located, said it was an “absolute scandal” that the Labour-led authority had agreed last week to sell more than 700 homes to a private company in a deal forecast to result in a multimillion-pound loss.
Described by local people as a ghost town, with many flats standing empty for more than a year, was intended to be an athletes’ village for the Commonwealth Games, which Birmingham hosted in 2022.
How much has Birmingham council spent on emergency housing for the homeless, and bleating on about being skint, while 700 homes they own have stood empty.
Far better to get some cash back even at a loss than sit empty doing nothing."
Why are there 700 empty homes while same council has so many homeless families |
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"Isn't this the same council who wasted 250k on plant's for the council offices??"
And Birmingham’s council has been accused of wasting almost £10 million on a cycle highway that is wider than a bus lane...that no one uses
And £400,000 on diversity staff |
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"Birmingham City Council also spent more than £1m in 2022 on vehicles that don't comply with their own Clean Air Zone policy
That’s outstanding! “Yes minister” lives on … "
Since posting that I’ve read elsewhere it’s £2.1 million. |
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If recall correctly the council spent around 110 million pound setting up the clean air zone whilst knowing it was close to bankruptcy.
Even though it was a labour counci, the mayor Andy street was tory, knew about the financial situation yet pushed for cycle lanes and air zone .... complete tosser! Imho |
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