DON' o Li 1St AY YOUR INCOME Suc—Altnough Derek Barton
did not specify Whether the revised rents now demanded of the tenants at King's Court and Alexandria Mansions included rates or not, it seems safe to deduce that the latter are, and will remain, a separate charge.
It this assumption is correct, then indeed the gallant but luckless tenants have won a Pyrrhic vic- tory, for in 1963 the new rating values based on Post-war rentals will come into force.
It, as you say in your editorial, the LCC is hypnotised by the attraction of higher rents (and consequently higher rates),' then clearly it is local government policy to support landlords in their demands, although if the queue of the homeless is to be swelled in a year or so by tenants in the kmg's Court and Alexandra Mansions category, it . Would seem that the LCC's efforts to raise their
Come to meet inflation will be nullified to a cer- tain extent by the additional burden thrown on their resources.
This whole business seems to highlight the com- plete economic muddle and anarchy which the affluent society conceals behind a façade of shaky Prosperity and which makes absolute nonsense of Most of the precepts by which most of us would Still like to live.
C. C BAINES Yew Tree House, Bladbean, El/join, near Canterbury
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