Westbrook Partners close to transferring ownership to affordable housing provider after tenants’ campaign against rent risesUS investors who planned to evict dozens of families and more than double rents at the New Era estate in east London are on the verge of selling it to an affordable-housing provider after a vocal campaign against their ownership.
Three women who live on the 93-home estate mounted a vociferous and media-savvy campaign. They enlisted the support of Russell Brand, who lives nearby, and organised hundreds of residents and other supporters to march on Westbrook’s UK offices in Berkeley Square last month to deliver a 300,000 signature petition to David Cameron, calling on him to save their homes.
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