Goldstone: Revive Croydon Services, Housing

0:00On April 22nd, Ben Goldstone, the Trade Unionist and Socialist Coalition candidate for Coiden Mayor, is pushing hard to reverse deep cuts to local services like libraries and youth programs. He's a first-time runner calling out both conservatives and labor for letting working folks down over years of slashed budgets. Goldstone vows to reopen those four libraries shut down last year and bring back the full youth engagement team, acts by the current mayor. Youth Services hit hard in Coiden, with that team handling everything from job help to safety programs now handed off to volunteers. Goldstone links the borrows knife crimes by straight to poverty and underfunding, saying a big push for after school and weekend council run. Activities could turn things around. Housing's another crisis, with over 8,000 families on the waiting list, but just over 500 council homes available, forcing too many, into shaky private rentals. He wants a massive council house building drive, plus town center fixes shaped by residents,

1:00not just big business, think community spaces and those. Empty buildings. To pay for it and make Coiden's money woes, Goldstone eyes the council's borrowing powers, in-tap reserves and a grassroots fight with unions and communities to pressure central government for more cash. He backs wiping out the 1.4 billion pound debt too, calling a doable and essential. Goldstone, with his roots in housing support for the homeless and mental health work, stepped up because he sees no real options from the main. Parties, just career politicians dodging the tough fights, Coiden needs real working class voices to win.