FRIGHTENED TENANTS MAN THE BARRICADES... ISSUED BY CARLISLE TENANTS` AND RESIDENTS` FEDERATION… July 8 2013
When you have a child rapist as a neighbour, how do you cope, particularly when you are old and living alone? People in a block of former council flats in Carlisle have taken to barricading themselves in at night.
The situation has led to questions about the present approach to housing undesirable people and whether the present landlord, Riverside Housing Association, is up to doing the job.
The frightened people live in Dixon`s Court, Shaddongate, and in the past they have put up with tenants jailed for drug offences and jailed for other serious crimes. But when they learned that one neighbour had been arrested and jailed for four years for raping a 14 –year-old girl , the barricades went up.
These frightened people are not the only victims. There other frightened people in Carlisle who have abandoned their homes in despair and gone away to live with relatives because of neighbours from hell or because of neighbours convicted of serious offences put there by Riverside.
Carlisle Tenants` and Residents` Federation is far from happy with the present Riverside policy and today urged city councillors to investigate that policy and also the frightened tenants of Dixon`s Court.
A Federation spokesman said:”These frightened people tell us that Riverside is not acting as a responsible landlord. There seems to be no proper policy for housing undesirables. Responsible tenants are suffering and should have a say in choosing their neighbours”.
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