Sign our petition to demand that the 47 families in Dreghorn whose homes are being sold are bought by the council to ensure that no one is evicted!
In the lead up to Christmas of 2024, private tenants of military-owned Dreghorn Estate received a letter from Phil Riley, DIO Director of Accommodation informing them that they would be selling off housing that was ‘surplus’ to their requirements.
In other words, their homes.
Without the council buying back the homes, the families are concerned that they will be evicted and face homelessness after being assured that these houses would be long term secure accommodation for them and their families.
The impact that this news has had on residents huge. It impacts everything from their livelihoods and economic stability to their mental and physical health and wellbeing.
We demand that Edinburgh City Council purchase the houses and allow Dreghorn Residents to stay on as tenants, ensuring they can remain in their community.
As one resident of Dreghorn says -
"These are our homes. Our lives are built here. Our children have grown up in these houses and we have created a community and security within it. Please join in our fight to save our homes and stop these heartless and self-serving evictions."
Join our call!
Sign our petition to show Edinburgh City Council that we won’t back down and let families be forced into homelessness. We demand that Edinburgh Council:
- Allow the purchase of the 47 homes from the DIO with sitting tenants, and allow residents to remain in their homes and become council tenants.
- Expand the tenanted acquisition policy to cover new acquisitions, not only where there are Council led capital works in mixed tenure blocks where the Council also has ownership, to allow the above to happen.
