{"id":336284,"date":"2025-12-26T09:17:07","date_gmt":"2025-12-26T09:17:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/336284\/"},"modified":"2025-12-26T09:17:07","modified_gmt":"2025-12-26T09:17:07","slug":"hackney-siblings-face-eviction-after-mothers-cancer-death","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/336284\/","title":{"rendered":"Hackney siblings face eviction after mother&#8217;s cancer death"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The family says they are now facing the loss of their &#8220;emotional and community anchor&#8221; on Hackney&#8217;s Linzell Estate, where they have lived since 1978.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Their mother, Megan, died in July after a short illness with cancer. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The siblings have said their grief has been compounded by delays to her burial, which took two months, and by Ms Thompson losing her job at Santander.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;It&#8217;s so close to Christmas,&#8221; Mr Gray told the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/lnp\/ldrs\" class=\"ssrcss-f6h2dj-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Local Democracy Reporting Service<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;They haven&#8217;t actually shown us proof of the earlier succession,&#8221; his sister added. &#8220;I just want clarity.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The family may receive a discretionary offer of succession or be rehoused, but Ms Thompson said she has not had anything in writing and is frustrated by &#8220;vague&#8221; conversations with housing officers.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">She said: &#8220;A lot of other people have lived here for a very long time. My daughter has just started school here.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The family says they are now facing the loss of their &#8220;emotional and community anchor&#8221; on Hackney&#8217;s Linzell&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":336285,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[49,50,51,47,52,48],"class_list":["post-336284","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/336284","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=336284"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/336284\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/336285"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=336284"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=336284"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=336284"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}