Residents must go so Housing can keep its promise on care homes

Wednesday 9th February 2011, 2:29PM GMT.

Deputy Dave Jones. (Picture by Tom Tardif, 1054739) HOUSING minister Dave Jones (pictured) said the department very much regretted having to move more than 20 social housing residents to enable the redevelopment of Longue Rue House and Maison Maritaine.

But he said the decision to re-house residents of States houses was essential if the department was to honour its commitment to residents of the two care homes that they would be able to remain in the same place.

‘At Maison Maritaine in particular, there simply wasn’t enough space around the existing care homes to achieve this without redeveloping these properties,’ he said.

‘It is also part of our desire under the Corporate Housing Programme that we tear down substandard housing such as Maison Le Clement and replace it with modern, well insulated, energy-efficient homes for the future.’

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donkey boy

February 9, 2011 at 9:06 pm

it really upset me to read these stories about the residents at the maison maritaine, the housing department have evicted more people out of there properties over the last five years than the germans did when we were ocupied,

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bcb

February 10, 2011 at 3:36 pm

donkey boy
Yeah and built plenty of nice new ones for them to move back into.

If they were left in run down old shacks people would complain and if they move them out to build new modern ones people complain.

They are being moved and not evicted, also they are not their properties.

DB what would you suggest the best course of action?.

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