Our jobs, homes & communities! Social Housing Action Campaign unites housing assoc & coop residents, & housing workers to improve working and living conditions.
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Well, that is disappointing. In line with expectations, but disappointing nonetheless.
MPs voted to remove Clause 13, which requires a statutory review of shared ownership, from the Social Housing Bill.
We provided written evidence in support of Clause 13, and will publish updates on our position soon.
Transcript of the debate below.
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hansard.parliament.uk/common…
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.@andyburnham says he wants to take on the vested interests holding us back.
So why could a secret consultation by his ministers, closing next week, let them win at the expense of millions of people in England? 👇
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Worth also saying that RBKC's director of housing during the period leading up to Grenfell was recently given a group director role in Barnet on £157,000 a year peteapps.substack.com/p/gren…
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“Ending 40 years of neoliberalism” latest: protecting developers’ superprofits to peddle more leasehold debt traps 🥴
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Plans for first-ever housing union - complete with rent strikes & legal advocacy - to be launched at #TUCCongress #Congress26 #TUCCongress #TUC2026 #TUC26 @ActionShac
morningstaronline.co.uk/arti…
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SHAC Article: I Thought I Was Just Checking My Service Charges
shaction.org/2026/09/05/i-th…
Olivia started out checking figures on a service charge letters and ended up building tenant and resident power across her neighbourhood.
It was a journey she never expected to take, but her experience will be familiar to many.
#EndServiceChargeAbuse
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Leasehold now carries so much negative baggage that buyers are rejecting it in droves. The properties themselves may be fine but the surrounding scandal and backlash has now poisoned demand. The Leasehold system left unchecked will become so toxic that it's unsalvageable.
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Starmer betrayed his manifesto promise.
He may be on the way out, but he is still giving “punishment beatings” to leaseholders.
His Bill will trash the value of our homes and protect the service charge racket for Big Freehold and rent-seeking lawyers.
With Matthew Wright 👇
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While politicians have surrendered Take Back Control to vested interests, @FreeLeasehlders will keep fighting to put people in charge of their homes, money and lives.
Be part of the growing rebellion to replace leasehold serfdom with true homeownership.
freeleaseholders.org.uk/join
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A Ward Councillor reviewed our evidence (see earlier posts) and agreed to help but Lambeth Council Leader @clairekholland (Labour) stopped her. We’re non-party political but did elected politicians close ranks to favour a £1bn Landowner over wrongly evicted tenants? More to come!
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Markets don’t wait for politicians.
Leasehold is killing London.
Buyers are boycotting leasehold serfdom boxes.
Taylor Wimpey pulls out of new apartment schemes.
Now Sadiq Khan has his officials scramble to investigate leasehold service charges! mylondon.news/news/zone-1-ne…
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Housing demo London - the voice of the customer is loud and clear, it’s just not at the events CEOs go to!
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Legal battles in housing aren’t equal.
Without legal support, residents face experienced teams who do this every day — and it shows.
This is about access to justice.
youtu.be/ofd0EGJktys
#HousingSector #BenJenkins #TenantRights #SocialHousing #HousingLaw #Leaseholders