The letter from residents of Downland Court in Portslade was absolutely right to say Brighton and Hove City Council will not lift a finger to help in dealing with antisocial behaviour.

The council put a street-drinker our house, which is sheltered housing for old and sick people, so we are all suffering.

I would advise anyone with trouble from drunks and their supposed helpers, who are ex-alcoholics themselves, to go to a solicitor because there is no help whatever from the council.

We tried for 16 months to get this man out and had to do it ourselves. Two of our tenants had breakdowns.

Such people bring in their street-drinking friends - in the winter you will find them sleeping on the stairs and using the hallway as a loo. The police call once and no more, saying it is the landlord's problem.

Lovely old ladies and gentlemen who are sick were abused and still received no help. They were merely asked to fill in an incident diary, week after week, year after year.

The only solution is to go out on the streets with placards and march up and down outside King's House, Hove, and hope you can get help.

-N Gibbons, Farm Road, Hove