A number of the longstanding residents complain that the trust focuses on the new residents, while ignoring the concerns of the families who have lived on the island for generations; for example, they complain that new mains power connections, and housing provision, is given to the families of trust members, not indigenous islanders. One islander from an old Eigg family declared that the trust ""is not a democracy ... it is the mafia"". More recently, more positive articles have been published, showing a different picture of the island.