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Tenants remain defiant as homes go under hammer

SOCIAL tenants will picket a property auction today as their estate is put up for sale.

Residents of the Butterfields estate in Walthamstow, London, will be marching on the Marriott Hotel in Grosevenor Square to protest against the sale of their homes.

The 64 homes were owned by poverty charity Glasspool Trust until earlier this year, when the estate was bought, without its tenants’ knowledge, by property firm Butterfields E17.

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