London tenants to protest at auction of social flats worth £7.2m

Accusations of social cleansing as housing associations and councils sell to private sector Tenants opposed to the social cleansing of city centres will protest outside an auction at a luxury hotel where property developers and private landlords will bid for £7.2m worth of former social flats and houses. Nearly one in 10 of the lots, which are being auctioned by leading estate agent Savills at the Marriott hotel in London's Grosvenor Square on Monday, are former social housing, with 14 lots bei...