For those unfamiliar with Kwajo Tweneboa, (likely because you reside outside the United Kingdom), this young man has committed another act of social heroism, relating once again a story of political and managerial indifference to social housing tenants.
This young man has published building-by-building, room-by-room documentation of dangerous social housing conditions. Tweneboa’s relentless campaign against dangerous conditions has earned him the respect of a nation1.
What now? Writing an opinion piece in The Guardian, Tweneboa tells the story of a young woman who received an eviction order after her mother died. Tweneboa’s intercession momentarily worked. Then the management of the social housing reneged on its promise to give her more time. Tweneboa writes how he narrowly escaped this same, and apparently common fate of the ‘bum’s rush’ out of public housing for children of a deceased parent. Read more in The Guardian: The secret social housing scandal: when your parent dies – and you are evicted in days
