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Posts by Ben Lynch, Local Democracy Reporter

Hackney bought 43 homes for temporary housing — but kept no record of who was living in them

By Ben Lynch, Local Democracy Reporter | Friday 26 June 2026 at 13:45

The council is one of a dozen London authorities buying up properties for emergency housing with no knowledge of whether tenants were evicted to make way for the sales, an investigation has found

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