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The banners at Glenluce Drive on Tuesday
An African man has said he can't move into his new Housing Executive home after banner-carrying protesters gathered outside his front door on the day he was due to move in.
34-year-old Michael Abiona found banners reading "Local Houses 4 Local People" hanging from the fence and front door of what was due to be his new east Belfast home on Tuesday.
Mr Abiona, who has been living in Northern Ireland for the last four years and is actively involved in race relations, said he would not go back to the property for the safety of his son.
He said: "The safety of my son comes first. His mother told me she would not allow him to come and visit me there.
"My son comes first so I'm not going to go back to the premises."
Michael, who had gone to the property to meet someone from the Housing Executive regarding getting a boiler repaired, said: "I was met by about five people, three or four ladies and one man, sitting in front of the premises.
"One of them told me have I not heard about it, that they were protesting concerning the premises that they only want locals to live in the place, that there are lots of local people who have been on the waiting list for more than nine years - how did I get it? What's my grounds?"
He added: "I'm local as well, I've been in Belfast four years now. It's shameful, really awful. It's discrimination."
East Belfast Alliance MLA Naomi Long said: "This sort of behaviour has no place in our community."
"Any right-thinking person will condemn this blatantly racist behaviour and I have no doubt the vast majority of residents in the area will be sickened by it."
