⚠️ "Shared owners must not be shut out of decisions which directly affect them."
The Housing Select Committee’s message to ministers could not be clearer. The question now is: will they listen?
🖇️ Link to Committee report in next post.
⚠️ "Shared owners must not be shut out of decisions which directly affect them."
The Housing Select Committee’s message to ministers could not be clearer. The question now is: will they listen?
🖇️ Link to Committee report in next post.
Today’s HCLG Committee report calls for the government to go further and faster on reform.
Will @mhclg act on the committee’s recommendations and ensure shared owners aren’t left behind?
The Housing, Communities and Local Government Committee has published its report on the draft Commonhold and Leasehold Reform Bill. The government must go further and faster to address the problems with leasehold.
Read our report: https://t.co/3hjewNX7Bw
@SharedOwnersNet@cattwil Grateful to @FloEshalomi and the committee, but I can't see how shared owners - or indeed private leaseholders - in mixed-use blocks can ever benefit from commonhold if the housing association has a headlease with control over a majority of units.
🗣The Government must go further and faster on commonhold and leasehold reform, says Housing Committee
Recommends the government accelerate the timetable to bring in the £250 Ground Rent cap by late 2027.
@CommonsHCLG@mhclg
https://t.co/t3ybHh4bzQ
⚠️ "Shared owners must not be shut out of decisions which directly affect them."
The Housing Select Committee’s message to ministers could not be clearer. The question now is: will they listen?
🖇️ Link to Committee report in next post.
@EOCS_Official@Uma_Kumaran Shared owners are forced to sell at prices set by RICS surveyors or cover the shortfall themselves.
Cannot sell and need to move? They are told to become landlords.
This can't go on @mtpennycook. We need buybacks.
Shared owners are forced to sell at prices set by RICS surveyors or cover the shortfall themselves.
Cannot sell and need to move? They are told to become landlords.
This can't go on @mtpennycook. We need buybacks. 👇
There's no good route onto the first rung of the UK housing ladder (or at least England & Wales, due to leasehold). I know people trying to buy, and I try to gently warn them off shared ownership, but they're hopeful about it and it's hard
🖋️ "Most of my anxiety comes not from spending decades working in war and disaster zones as a journalist, but from my shared ownership flat."
https://t.co/85lBd7RVru
The bill is silent on the key issues @UKLabour spoke so strongly about in opposition: non-cladding defects, non-qualifying leaseholders, the failing Developer Contract, weak risk assessment standards, extortionate buildings insurance & shared ownership.
https://t.co/q2R6OPwdEJ
A probe is a start, but without urgent action to bring charges under control, more households will be pushed to breaking point.
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https://t.co/Q5lFzClG5O
We need government-backed buybacks for shared ownership flats that are unmortgageable or unsellable.
These homes could be converted to social or affordable rent, helping meet local housing need while freeing trapped leaseholders.
Where is the leadership @stevereedMP?
We shared the frustration felt by many shared owners, including delays in accessing fire safety documents, slow progress on remediation, and a lack of clear information throughout the process.
Many shared owners who sublet now face extra requirements and tight deadlines just to access protections under the Renters’ Rights Act.
Poor government communication risks leaving them exposed to significant financial risk.
Despite paying record levels of rent and service charge to L&Q, I don't get information about what's going on. My only source of information is neighbours in our block's WhatsApp group.
@mtpennycook@SamanthaDixonMP when will you hold these social landlords to account?
We need government-backed buybacks for shared ownership flats that are unmortgageable or unsellable.
These homes could be converted to social or affordable rent, helping meet local housing need while freeing trapped leaseholders.
Where is the leadership @stevereedMP?
Today we met with @SamanthaDixonMP ahead of tomorrow’s King’s Speech.
The Remediation Bill is simply too little, too late. It won't make homes safe, protect leaseholders or speed up remediation any time soon.
Labour is still failing to get a grip on the building safety crisis.