Floriana housing

Kindly allow me to reply to the letter titled A Team Approach by Marisa Micallef Leyson, chairman of the Housing Authority (July 14), in answer to my previous letter titled Floriana Housing ( July 9).

A careful reading of my letter would prove that I had never stated that the lift installation project had been started (implemented ) in Floriana - or anywhere else - by the Floriana local council.

In my letter I had only stated that the lifts project idea had initially been introduced by the Floriana local council and the Housing Authority chairman can deny this until she is blue in the face.

This is the opposite of giving credit where it is due, as she termed it.

Also, initially, when lifts were going to be introduced in Floriana in government-built apartments a mix-up was going to take place because the Housing Authority had been so unprofessional in its research that a lift was about to be placed not in a government-built block of flats but in a privately-owned block of apartments, so much so that it was only due to the prompt intervention of then Floriana mayor Nigel Holland which prevented the Housing Authority (under Mrs Micallef Leyson's chairmanship) from committing this foolish blunder.

As far as housing projects in Floriana - or anywhere else - are concerned I had never stated that the Floriana local council had begun to build the Argotti Street housing project, and/or the Capuchins Street housing project from council funds but I had only claimed that these two housing projects had begun to be built by the Housing Authority only after a successful public awareness campaign had been launched by the Floriana local council.