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Dear Conservatives Party
I apologize for contacting you and I hope you’re able to help us with our case that is being ignored by Lewisham Council and Lewisham Labour. I wasn’t aware that Lewisham had a local Conservative Party and if I had known, I would have made contact much sooner.
I am a disabled mum to my 21-year-old son living in Deptford, having been rehoused through Lewisham council due to domestic abuse, hate crime, and bullying.
We live in a housing association property on Gosterwood Street with our landlord being a specialist domestic abuse housing association.
We and our neighbours have had many issues since 2012 which Lewisham council has ignored over the years, leading to many women, men, children, and young people going through serious and significant trauma and suffering as a result of our landlord’s negligence and prejudice.
There is a very serious problem with Lewisham Council failing their basic duty of care while enabling housing associations like our landlord Housing for Women to abuse their power while causing serious harm, risks, and damage to tenants.
We have found it impossible as a small community of fewer than 35 households living here to get any help, support, intervention, and safety from the various forms of discrimination, deprivation, and inequalities created and caused by our landlord with lots of gatekeeping to prevent tenants from receiving the help, support, and care needed.
Would it be possible for you to visit me and my son please as Lewisham council continues ignoring our complaint which has resulted in my landlord’s direct unlawful discrimination and victimisation?
Thank you for your time.
Kind regards
H Presley
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From: H P <hpresley78@hotmail.co.uk>
Date: 27 October 2023 at 14:46:39 BST
To: advice@lgo.org.uk
Cc: Kingfisher <lewccg.kingfisher@nhs.net>, RBlakeway@housing-ombudsman.org.uk, michael.gove.mp@parliament.uk, KwajoHousing@gmail.com, embassy.london@mfa.gov.tr
Subject: Lewisham Council Complaint
Dear LGSO
I am contacting you for help due to Lewisham Council failing to treat us fairly with respect and failing to intervene to help and support us with the unlawful discrimination and victimization against me and my son which is a result of my complaints made to the Housing Ombudsman, ICO and LBL and my refusal to agree to my landlord’s NDA.
The council’s decision to ignore us following my complaint sent to the Mayor of Lewisham on 19 May 2022, our living situation and other tenants impacted in similar circumstances has had and continues to have a detrimental impact on both my and my son’s personal safety, mental health and well-being which has often left me suicidal due to the significant amount of inequalities, gatekeeping and barriers as a result of the structural racism and discrimination accumulated over the years leading to our health and wellbeing worsening. As a result, my landlord has retaliated in an aggressive and heavy-handed manner to cause us more harm and inequalities by further victimising, excluding, and refusing services to us as punishment which has resulted in us being exploited, threatened, harassed, and discriminated against which is now leading to homelessness with my landlord’s retaliatory eviction due to my complaints as my landlord continues to provide false and inaccurate claims about access to our home. We have not refused access for repairs and my landlord is the one refusing to provide services and repairs as a result of my request for reasonable adjustments which continues to be refused despite extensive evidence proving decanting not being required for repairs as well as us waiting daily from 8am for repairs to begin.
Despite Lewisham council officers and elected representatives having regular meetings with our landlord regarding our case, both myself and son have been excluded from these meetings as well as decisions being made without our consent and knowledge on what is best for them while ignoring, disregarding, minimising and invalidating our needs, what’s best for us and our lived experiences.
The long history of cultural incompetence, structural racism, inequalities, safeguarding failures, disrespect, oppression, dehumanizing, demoralizing, degrading exclusion, discrimination, and victimization has led to additional disadvantages and challenges due to obstacles and gatekeeping with us being treated less favorably and being punished instead with my mental health conditions being weaponized against me.
As a result of my landlord’s discrimination and victimization which was reported to the police, I was advised to refer my complaint to your service as a result of the council’s failings in their duty of care.
Please note that I referred my previous complaint to your service which is for the complaint dated 19 May 2022.
The second complaint made to LBL was made on 4 October 2023 which I’ve only received acknowledgment for.
I first reported and complained to LBL in May 2012, two months after moving into our home. Following that complaint in 2012, officers from the council visited our home.
In 2018 council officers visited our home for disrepairs which today are still outstanding. My complaint was closed despite my landlord’s noncompliance, negligence, and discrimination. I have since been relying on my MP due to the fact it was the only way my landlord would respond.
Please help because I genuinely do not know how much more my health can take as my health is not improving and due to my health deteriorating I’ve not left our home for nearly two years resulting in me being unable to keep up with hospital appointments. This has resulted in me being discharged and not getting the treatment and health care I need. I cannot take care of my health or engage in healthcare due to my mental health crisis being unpredictable as it’s my landlord’s actions causing my mental health crisis to worsen.
As a result of the council enabling and defending my landlord’s unlawful victimisation and failing to safeguard us from the abuse, discrimination and exclusion I have no trust in the council as they have not done anything to eliminate discrimination and protect us from the harm and damages caused to me, my son and other tenants who have equally suffered or worse than us and I believe they will continue to do everything they can for my health to worsen like they have been doing over the years by violating and abusing our rights and dignity.
They have done many things to make me suicidal and when I’ve spoken out about it they have deflected by denying accountability and responsibility for their deliberate failings.
If a physical health conditions does not kill me then my mental health will eventually kill me if these inequalities, discrimination and victimisation continues being ignored and enabled by those with a duty of care.
Thank you.
Kind regards
H Presley
From: H P <hpresley78@hotmail.co.uk>
Date: 4 October 2023 at 14:34:46 BST
To: pshe@lewisham.gov.uk
Subject: Formal Complaint
Dear Lewisham Council
I am writing to complain about your refusal to help me with being victimised and discriminated against by your partner landlord H4W housing association, and how your failures have enabled my landlord to abuse their power using threats and financial abuse to coerce and control me and our housing situation.
I have been a tenant of H4W housing association for over 11 years. During that time, I have experienced a number of issues with my landlord, including:
- Discrimination and victimisation
- Failures to carry out essential repairs
- Coercion and control
- Threats to make me and my son homeless
- Financial abuse, such as refusing to carry out repairs, charging me excessive fees, criminal injunction
- Gatekeeping, which has prevented me and my son from receiving the help and support we need from other organisations.
I have reported these issues to H4W housing association on numerous occasions including to the Housing Ombudsman, MP Vicky Foxcroft, Cllr Paul Bell and Cllr Will Cooper. In fact, they have often made the situation worse by siding with H4W.
These issues are known to Lewisham Council, but you have failed to take any action. Your failure to protect me and my son has enabled H4W to continue abusing their power and controlling our housing situation.
I have NOT refused access for repairs. In fact, I have repeatedly requested repairs, but H4W have failed to act on them by using various contractors to discriminate against us.
This gatekeeping is preventing me and my son from receiving the help and support we need.
Section 184, Housing Act 1996 says if you have reason to believe I may be homeless or threatened with homelessness you must make inquiries into my situation.
Thank you.
Kind regards
H Presley
Mervelee Advocacy 