Trapped in flammable Mojo Development in Bow, east London. Construction: 2010 #Bellway, Freehold: @mainstayltd & E&M, MA: @EstatesWarwick/@rendallrittner
Thank you to @JSimpsonjourno for highlighting the plight of leaseholders in our development. We remain on this hamster wheel, desperate to move on with our lives. With this continuous cycle of poor practices, it’s leaseholders that suffer financially & mentally.
When I spoke to residents at the @MojoResidents apartments for the first time in Feb, I didn’t know it was the start of a 9 month journey digging into one of the most jaw-dropping sagas of the cladding crisis
Here's the story in full, brace yourselves👇 https://t.co/lu41avg3jU
If you cap benefits and allow rents to rise, the only possible outcome is soaring homelessness
Bit from me in The Guardian on the failed legacy of capping LHA
https://t.co/yxJRSSUPPv
📢 LEASEHOLDERS
🗳️ #GeneralElection2024
Make sure the building safety crisis is on the agenda: send your questions to the BBC.
Online form 👇
https://t.co/T5FRNfVmI5
@luhc Perhaps @railpen will need to update their ESG policy having made the lives of their leaseholders a living hell for years. @RMTunion you need to ask your pension company what games they have been playing with your members money.
Well done @SophieLB1 for all your hard work
🚨 We first warned govt about these impending enormous costs over 2 years ago.
❌ Unfortunately, the Building Safety Act means that innocent leaseholders are being forced to pay huge sums to put right decades of wrongdoing by the state and industry.
https://t.co/Xp1CyNz3ST
🗓️ Last month 2 members of our team planned to attend the Bellway AGM.
🤔 Funnily enough, Bellway were not keen to see us.
☑️ But we had secured Bellway shares, so we went ahead with our plans.
Find out what happened 👇
#EndOurCladdingScandal
https://t.co/ndT1U1L9yV
Do read the attachment. Phenomenally thorough account. We r all lucky to have this group campaigning. More of us w publicly quoted developers, freeholders, lenders, insurers should follow their example 😍
Seriously worrying precendent here. 'Decant' residents from social housing blocks for urgent repair work, then change course and sell the blocks to the private sector.
By ‘they’ btw, I mean those with power to make a difference: to pardon postmasters, investigate PO managers, revoke honours etc. Amazing how the endless fobbing off turns into action when it’s the story on the front page of all the nationals. A good system wouldn’t wait for that
Must be an odd feeling for those involved. Good that everyone’s finally listening, but after so many years of pain, that they only cared after an ITV drama? That can’t be easy to process
Looking around at the sudden outbreak of public awareness and political engagement for the post office scandal and wondering if and when this will happen for Grenfell and the building safety crisis
I dunno, I usually try and avoid saying personal stuff, but it is heartbreaking, and I think its irreversible now. Just staying in the city on a moderate or low income is a struggle which you can only lose. I cannot see it turning around. What sort of city will it become?
I was born in Newham in 1988. I'm watching the only city I've ever called home empty and die. There is so much more wealth and opulence now and so little of it has been captured for the benefit of London's communities, who have been actively displaced. This will now accelerate.
🎙️ PODCAST
Find out more about our campaign from one of its leaders.
@danielleaumord speaks to @ukcag co-founder Ritu Saha.
👉 https://t.co/Wqsy937lv8
#EndOurCladdingScandal
🔴 We met Secretary of State @MichaelGove, Minister @Lee4NED and @luhc officials this week.
Government needs to do MORE to end the #BuildingSafetyCrisis
Find out what was discussed at the meeting in today's long read 👇
#EndOurCladdingScandal
https://t.co/uCJTv2tMfV
Pretty proud to be an @TheOrwellPrize finalist for my work investigating the exempt accommodation scandal. Countless hours went into it, so great to get the recognition. Shortlisted with some absolutely first-class journos. Best of luck to everyone!
🚨 NEW LEAKED DOCUMENT 🚨
I've obtained a previously unreleased document which reveals Grenfell insulation manufacturer Saint Gobain had research showing its product released high levels of toxic smoke 18 months before fire:
https://t.co/NadVl2R3zE