Lindsay Bruce
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166 appearances
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first heard May 2026
last heard 27 May
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And so in a flat that would be about 20,000 pounds and a four-bedroom or a three-bedroom house would be like 40,000 pounds.
And this is a house in the state that's probably one of the least expensive places to live in the whole city.
So on average, a house maybe is like £120,000 for one of the larger ones.
So then the council was saying, we're going to buy back your house at market value, but market value taken into consideration, you've got rack in your house that they didn't know about when they bought their houses.
And so that would mean if you paid £120,000 for your house, you were going to lose at least the cost of rack.
I can think of a family, they spent £123,000 on their house.
They were given a value of £68,000 for their house.
They still owed £100,000 on their mortgage.
And so if they agreed to sell, they would have been in negative equity altogether.
So we had to pay back a mortgage on a house they're no longer living in that's been demolished and then find somewhere else to rent for them and their two kids.
And that was the reality.
And that reality was causing stress to the point of suicidal ideation for people.
It was causing numerous health issues.
And so these people were faced with the thought of, actually, are we going to be homeless?
Are we going to lose everything we've ever worked for?
And this was overnight.
And so I caught that reaction in the community centre that day.
And then from then we just kept covering the crisis.
We just kept reporting every new council meeting, every update.
I would find these stories to tell.
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