Brighton and Hove City Council is not considering keeping things as they are, as a quick look at Appendix B of last Thursday's housing management sub-committee agenda will prove ("Tenants ask for fair vote motion", The Argus, July 19).
Knowing a ballot on privatisation would be rejected, as it was in Birmingham, the council is craftily pushing the idea of an Arms' Length Management Company (ALMO) to manage housing stock while keeping it in council ownership.
An ALMO can be set up without our having any say on the matter. A false veneer of democracy can be created by putting a small number of tenants on its board, after which privatisation can occur without a ballot being taken.
If you are a council tenant and do not like this way of being sold out to the private sector, write to your councillor to complain. We need a firm commitment from the council that it will be up to us to vote on any change of ownership or management.
-Ian Hills, Blackman Street, Brighton
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