FAMILIES are scared to let their children outside because of the broken glass and dangerous rubbish fly-tipped behind their homes on Les Genats Estate.

DEPUTIES want empty States housing to be used for emergency accommodation.

MORE than 160 households want homes they can part-own.

A STATES tenant whose window was smashed by brick-throwing yobs twice in six months will have to pick up the bill again.

HOUSING is looking to step up security at the Bouet after a fire at the weekend forced Les Cottonniers residents to be evacuated.

POTENTIAL buyers have chosen not to invest in former States houses partly because of the cost of refurbishing them.

A COUPLE being evicted from a States house said they will move, but only if they have somewhere suitable to go.

HOUSING is tearing down sound family homes so that bungalows for the older tenants can be built in the wrong place, according to a former estate agent and builder.

THREE mothers have defended their children’s right to play freely after claims of abuse by a Clairval Estate resident.

TENANTS outweigh the number of properties available to rent, according to many estate agents.