North West Communities Alliance
TO: News Editor

WISH YOU WERE HERE?

CHRISTMAS POST CARDS

sent from the North West Communities Alliance
to all our elected politicians

Glasgow's sickening housing conditions mean that too many tenants are living in Hell while Glasgow City Council does nothing. It is Glasgow 1999 and we have crumbling, damp, decaying and festering houses that Rachman himself would have been proud of.

This Christmas, ordinary families in Possilpark, Ruchill and Maryhill, will face dampness, walls of fungus, and masonry literally collapsing around them.

All around us, houses are left vacant and boarded up, yet this Christmas sees the highest level of Glasgow homelessness since records began.

Those responsible for this have plans to sell off all the land to private housing developers. The tenants of North and West Glasgow will have nowhere left to live. This Christmas, they are left to worry where we will be living next year.

The tenants are effectively under siege:

To help bring home the realities of this situation to elected politicians, including those who are directly responsible, we have sent a Christmas Postcard to every MSP and City Councillor. Each card had a personalised hand written message on the back. The front asks the question: "Wish you were here?"

In the new millennium, it is time we in North and West Glasgow had our right to live as human beings given back to us.

What will our elected councillors, MPs, and MSPs have to say?


A full set of the different postcards is enclosed with this press release.

Original photographs can be made available for use. Our video of the full horror of the housing conditions and poverty we have to live with, "Planned Deprivation", is also available.


Note to Editors: The North West Communities Alliance aims to promote the overall welfare of the citizens of the North and West Glasgow areas in respect of housing, social, cultural and environmental issues.