You can bet for sure he is not the only person who has worked that out. it may well be he s not done anything illegal, but morally it s got to be questionable and, in terms of how we want our housing benefit to be spent, it must be completely wrong. documents from the land registry show paul 0 rourke s companies have done more than a hundred deals including properties leased to my space. it s not easy to work out how much profit his companies have made because we don t know what expenses he might have had on the transactions but if you add up the sale prices and take away the purchase prices, you get a grand total of around £63 million. paul o rourke disputes this figure and says it s very misleading. he says it doesn t account for significant costs, such as taxes, renovations, financial support for my space, as well as legal
There were regular e mails and meetings and i m going, how many moves have you had this week? how many moves are you planning for next week? and any kind of churn is like they are talking about a tin of tuna on a shelf, rather than a person. my space says as a not for profit provider, it only takes on property where there is demand. it says paul o rourke isn t involved in decisions made by the board and all transactions with him and his companies are at arm s length. blackpool. and a block of eight flats. another property once owned by paul o rourke and sold on to investors with the lease to my space. chris, jemma and louise, who have all struggled with their mental health, lived here from 2020 until late last year. it looks like quite a nice building. it does from the outside but when obviously you get
My space and enabling homes are two different companies. they are. on paper, they are two different companies but in reality, they don t work separately. they work as one company and people have said, oh, this is paul 0 rourke s housing association. this former employee believes paul o rourke was still pulling strings inside the charity after he stepped away. we have disguised her identity as she feared speaking openly will affect her currentjob. is my space run like a charity? it is not at all run like a charity. i think it started out with the best of intentions at another purpose feels like it isjust to make money. she told me my space was growing too fast.
The council hands out housing benefit on behalf of the government but, in 2017, it refused to pay the charity the £360 it wanted for each one bedroom flat. itjust didn t stack up. they are charging more for rent than everybody else, itjust didn t feel right to me. how can i predict? at a rent tribunal earlier this year, the council argued paul o rourke was indirectly profiting from high charges my space were charging. thejudge didn t agree, saying he had seen no evidence to suggest impropriety, and the rent was fair. i showed councillor fritchley some of the documents from our whistleblowers.
That it failed some of its tenants and staff. arcam house was forced to close for three months after the machete incident. only then was charlie able to see inside. it was destroyed, absolutely destroyed. i d never seen anything like it. furniture was smashed, doors hanging off the hinges in pieces, broken glass everywhere, human substances on the walls. evidence of drug use. my space says there were instances a few years ago where service levels fell below the standards it sets. it says lessons were learnt and procedures were improved. when property developer paul o rourke bought arcam house, along with several other properties, he paid