SHAC Action

Our jobs, homes & communities! Social Housing Action Campaign unites housing assoc & coop residents, & housing workers to improve working and living conditions.

[SHAC Action @ActionShac]

Hassan's words will ring true for a dispossessed and forgotten mass of social housing tenants and residents. It is time we changed this landscape. Join SHAC's project for a democratic National Housing Union for All Tenants and Residents - https://t.co/0tlseofO0j.

[SHAC @SHAC_Action]

SHAC Article: Social Housing in the UK: A Brutal War of Attrition

https://t.co/eKS5KFrsi8

As Hassan says: "Britain’s social housing accountability framework is, on paper, a layered structure of rights and remedies. In practice, it is a gauntlet specifically calibrated to wear tenants down ... The accountability gap isn’t a malfunction. It’s a design feature."

That's why we're working towards a national, democratic Housing Union for All Tenants and Residents to rebalance the landlord-tenant power relationship. Find out more at https://t.co/MHlzRRxnGB.

[SHAC Action @ActionShac]

Vital that people sign our petition now! We must end #ServiceChargeAbuse.

https://t.co/Kog22jxQ6P

[SHAC @SHAC_Action]

🚨 New SHAC Survey 🚨
🚨 Landlord Service Charge Abuse Exposed! 🚨

https://t.co/afsEMtO82z

A massive new national survey of 829 residents by SHAC reveals rampant service charge exploitation across the UK, just as Housing Minister @mtpennycook rejects calls to cap skyrocketing costs.

#EndServiceChargeAbuse

@HarryScoffin

[SHAC Action @ActionShac]

Help put an end to the injustice - a simple solution, a powerful impact ...

[SHAC @SHAC_Action]

Our new Parliamentary Petition has launched. It calls for government to make it possible for tenants & leaseholders to pay disputed service charges to a court. The funds only pass to landlords if they can prove the charge's legitimacy within a set timeframe. Otherwise, the money returns to the tenant or leaseholder. Please sign and share, share, share! #EndServiceChargeAbuse
https://t.co/WpqzH55Zeq

[Harry Scoffin @HarryScoffin]

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.

https://t.co/s3ntGlNknq

[save waterloo paradise @savewaterloo_]

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!

[Harry Scoffin @HarryScoffin]

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! https://t.co/qslwWuAPRe

[Rainbowland @rainbowland1979]

@SHAC_Action Requires closer inspection I feel @_TheLondoner @London_Centric @TheCanaryUK

[IsaacSMILE @IsaacSMILE]

@SHAC_Action They are criminals.

[SHAC Action @ActionShac]

We need a completely new relationship with housing - our homes should not be for profit. This is the demand we will continue raising.

These landlords and freeholders are economic parasites.

[SHAC @SHAC_Action]

SHAC Article - FirstPort & the £300,000 Black Hole

FirstPort: living proof of hyper-exploitation of tenants & residents as govt willfully looks the other way.

https://t.co/d3VywEmBMS

But tenants & residents are fighting back.

[Housing Sector @housing_sector]

Housing demo London - the voice of the customer is loud and clear, it’s just not at the events CEOs go to!

[Housing Sector @housing_sector]

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.

https://t.co/WDkjjE5qhK

#HousingSector #BenJenkins #TenantRights #SocialHousing #HousingLaw #Leaseholders

[SHAC Action @ActionShac]

Housing Sector blog speaking truth to the housing sector. Eventually, they will be forced to listen!

[Housing Sector @housing_sector]

Missing invoices. Rising service charges. Same patterns across landlords.

Is this failure — or a playbook?

https://t.co/xGkXiivXA4

#HousingSector #ServiceCharges #SocialHousing #Accountability #BenJenkins #GreenSquareAccord #Peabody

[SHAC Action @ActionShac]

This should be a matter of concern for all taxpayers. While government is hyper-focussed on individual Housing Benefit fraud, they are happy to allow landlords free rein to rip off the benefits system.

We are asking @mtpennycook and @SteveReedMP to act.

[SHAC @SHAC_Action]

SHAC Research: It's The Great Housing Benefit Heist!

Landlords ripping off the taxpayer by siphoning off Housing Benefits for service charges to cover ghost services at extortionate rates.

https://t.co/z9n4pDi53D

Our new research, compiled from Freedom of Information Act requests to over 200 councils shows how the system fails to check the accuracy of landlord Housing Benefit demands.

#endservicechargeabuse

[SHAC Action @ActionShac]

"On Peabody-headed paper, the reviewer concluded that .... inaccurate statements had been made to residents, the MP, and the Housing Ombudsman Service."

They get away with lies because they enjoy govt protection. Instead, these landlords need to be held to account.

[SHAC @SHAC_Action]

SHAC Article: Missing Information and the Service Charge Maze

How service charges spiralled and one email built a residents’ association.

https://t.co/SCjzJtqbEs

David has exceptional evidence of service charge abuse by Peabody Housing but his experience is all too common. £500k of "missing" invoices, but Peabody and the like continue to enjoy government protections.

#EndServiceChargeAbuse

[SHAC Action @ActionShac]

SHAC Meeting - Challenging Service Charges

6pm Today, 30th March

Join us to discuss how we challenge and resist extortionate service charges. All welcome. Join at https://t.co/TsFE3tI88N

[SHAC Action @ActionShac]

Well done to Joseph for calling this out, but we cannot get justice alone - we have to unite the fight. Please join us on Monday to discuss how we collectively resist the extortion!

[SHAC @SHAC_Action]

SHAC and Members in the News
Our member Joseph got a service charge increase of 300%. His income didn't increase by 300%. His other household costs didn't either.

https://t.co/xlEOmGo30D

But @SteveReedMP and @mtpennycook protect landlords (likes Hastoe, a housing association in this case) who rip money from our pockets with these unjustified and extortionate rises.

SHAC's fighting back. If you're affected, please join us.

[SHAC Action @ActionShac]

@HarryScoffin @UKLabour @FreeLeasehlders Labour's response to any form of challenge - shoot the messenger!

[Harry Scoffin @HarryScoffin]

@realhansard @hughjarse1982 We are seeing average cost savings of 20% to 30% when leaseholders claim Right to Manage.

That is not to be sniffed at.

[Housing Sector @housing_sector]

Raised in the House of Commons last week.

My full account of SLAPPs involving #GreenSquareAccord is now live.

https://t.co/ZdUidI8Ya0

#SLAPPs #HousingSector #SocialHousing @RuthMCooke

[@Homes4AllUK @homes4alluk]

📣 Housing campaigns! Please join us on the Housing Bloc
⏰️ 12pm, 28 March
📍 Corner of Curzon Street and Park Lane
❌️❌️ Migrants don't cause the housing crisis!
👉 March from 1pm then help us leaflet for the #NationalHousingDemo
💯 TOGETHER AGAINST THE FAR RIGHT