by Puru Miah | Jan 16, 2019 | Blog: All Things Mile End, All Things Tower Hamlets, Community, Democracy
Much of the focus on tackling ASB focused on communal blocks of residential areas. But the residents of the Eric and Treby Estate have also been subjected to the boy racers, who have been speeding on the quiet roads. With near misses of pedestrians and oncoming cars,...
by Puru Miah | Jan 15, 2019 | Blog: All Things Mile End, All Things Tower Hamlets, Community, Democracy
Below is a piece outlining how Tower Hamlets Council can use its Pension Fund in conjunction with its reserves to divest from Carbon Extraction and invest in Renewable Energy Infrastructure and thus subsidise public services. Climate change threatens us and our...
by Puru Miah | Jan 6, 2019 | Blog: All Things Mile End, All Things Tower Hamlets, Democracy
As outlined in a previous article, the way Council Tax operates in Tower Hamlets is that it is regressive meaning poor people pay more as a proportion of their income than those richer. That it has been over three decades since the last rebanding of properties, that a...
by Puru Miah | Jan 6, 2019 | Blog: All Things Mile End, All Things Tower Hamlets, Democracy
Poverty and Poor Decisions Why do people in Tower Hamlets make so many bad decisions? Looking at the data for Tower Hamlets (Overview of London Boroughs – Trust for London), people in Tower Hamlets, save less, have poorer health, generally make bad decisions....
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