This week at the Dulwich Community Council the  Labour led Southwark Council had officers asking residents if they agreed with the council selling off council housing or having it transferred out of council ownership.

They asked whether it should be run by an Arms Length Management Organisation (ALMO). As the Labour cabinet member stated “We’ve taken the bull by the horns and are asking the questions that many have avoided, about how councils can continue to deliver good social housing to those in need despite funding cuts and changing demographics”.

But at the last local elections when the Lib Dems predicted that Labour would propose this they said we were wrong and lying. I doubt we’ll ever get an apology.

At the meeting many residents were enraged with such questions and abstained from responding to the loaded directive questions. It was embarassing to see a council official have to present something that they confirmed all the senior managers and cabinet councillors had signed-off.

What do you think should be the future of Southwark Council housing?