PRC-UTE
9th September 2005, 20:22
North Belfast IRSP statement on housing discrimination in north Belfast
The IRSP in North Belfast have called on the Housing Executive to scrap its north Belfast Housing strategy as it is clearly not working.
There needs to be a fundamental change in the thinking of NIHE, their north Belfast strategy, far from addressing decades of discrimination, over the lifetime of this strategy which has one year left to run housing discrimination against Catholics has got much worse.
N.I.H.E. if it is to retain any credibility needs to begin to allocate social housing on the basis of need, not on a persons religion or politics. Presently the NIHE is facilitating a Unionist agenda of gerrymandering, where the political status quo is maintained by direct discrimination against those in housing need. No amount of fancy words or spin changes the fact that social housing allocations and new builds are geared towards trying to sustain a diminishing unionist community at direct costs to non unionists.
Do the NIHE honestly believe that that people who believe in equality, human rights and fairness are going to accept a return to the sectarian practices of 50 years of unionist misrule.
Statement Ends
The IRSP in North Belfast have called on the Housing Executive to scrap its north Belfast Housing strategy as it is clearly not working.
There needs to be a fundamental change in the thinking of NIHE, their north Belfast strategy, far from addressing decades of discrimination, over the lifetime of this strategy which has one year left to run housing discrimination against Catholics has got much worse.
N.I.H.E. if it is to retain any credibility needs to begin to allocate social housing on the basis of need, not on a persons religion or politics. Presently the NIHE is facilitating a Unionist agenda of gerrymandering, where the political status quo is maintained by direct discrimination against those in housing need. No amount of fancy words or spin changes the fact that social housing allocations and new builds are geared towards trying to sustain a diminishing unionist community at direct costs to non unionists.
Do the NIHE honestly believe that that people who believe in equality, human rights and fairness are going to accept a return to the sectarian practices of 50 years of unionist misrule.
Statement Ends