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Deptford: Entire London apartment block to be evicted (www.bbc.co.uk)

submitted 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) by letraset@feddit.dk to c/london

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Landlords excuse: building has been lived in extensively, and needs a multimillion pound refurbishment. Building was completely refurbished in 2017.

150 people served with section 21 eviction notices.

Update: There's now a petition you can sign to counter this predatory landlord behaviour: https://chng.it/P2j7yj2xM4

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[–] letraset@feddit.dk 8 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

The company is Aitch Group. Seems nice enough, until they start mass evicting people for "multimillion pound refurbishment" of a 7 year old property that has been "extensively occupied".

What does that even mean? Have they been surprised people occupied it so "extensively" in a building they refurbished for people to live in?

Edit: used the actual term from the article, instead of my memory of the wording in the article.