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“Championing collaboration between residents and housing providers | Advocating for fairness, transparency, and sustainable solutions in the UK housing sector | Building bridges for better communities.”

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Ebrahim Forensic Accountant Guy 💚. @ebrahimovic9566.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
#Grenfell #Hillsboroughlaw #Greed #Power #UnitedKingdom #London @news.sky.com @mirror.co.uk @theguardian.com @channel4news.bsky.social @itvnews.bsky.social @thetimes.com @nytimes.com @news.abc.net.au
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Ebrahim Forensic Accountant Guy 💚. @ebrahimovic9566.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
2025-26 Complaint Handling Failure Orders, two or more list, also historical articles of one of the #housingassociations. #Awaabslaw #Grenfell #Housing #Socialhousing #HousingAssociation #ITVNewsLondon @theguardian.com @itvnews.bsky.social @news.sky.com @manchestereveningnews.co.uk @lbc.co.uk
Complaint Handling Failure Orders list, 2 or more of housing associations.Articles by housing association A2Dominion relating to repairs before and after.
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Ebrahim Forensic Accountant Guy 💚. @ebrahimovic9566.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
www.theguardian.com/society/2026... #housingassociation #housingassociations #Awaabslaw #Grenfell #socialhousing #ITVNewsLondon @theguardian.com @news.sky.com @thetimes.com @mirror.co.uk @manchestereveningnews.co.uk @itvnews.bsky.social @channel4news.bsky.social @itvnews.bsky.social
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Awaab’s law is not working, say social housing tenants stuck in mouldy homes
Residents say new legislation in England forcing landlords to fix dangerous hazards is not improving conditions
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Ebrahim Forensic Accountant Guy 💚. @ebrahimovic9566.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
www.housing-ombudsman.org.uk/decisions/no... #Awaabslaw #Damp #Mould #housingassociation #housing #socialhousing #housingassociations @lbc.co.uk @news.sky.com @itvnews.bsky.social Resident complained: -Bathroom leaks 17 years. -Asthma chronic lung disease children. -Repossession notice wrong.
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Notting Hill Genesis (202439478) - Housing Ombudsman
Decision Case ID 202439478 Decision type Investigation Landlord Notting Hill Genesis Landlord type Housing Association Occupancy Secure Tenancy Date 30 July 2026 Background The resident lives with her...
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Ebrahim Forensic Accountant Guy 💚. @ebrahimovic9566.bsky.social · 16h
Data collated about #housingassociations, 3 or more infringements/potential infringements. Themes of: -Right of Access -Lawfulness, Fairness and -Transparency and Integrity and Confidentiality Principle. #InformationCommissioner #data #statistics #socialhousing #housing #housingassociation
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Ebrahim Forensic Accountant Guy 💚. @ebrahimovic9566.bsky.social · 16h
Some data created from the Information Commissioner's website about housing associations. @skynewsrss.bsky.social @itvnews.bsky.social @bbcnewsnight.bsky.social @lbc.co.uk @theguardian.com @mirror.co.uk @thetimes.com @financialtimes.com @manchestereveningnews.co.uk @kentonline.co.uk
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Housing Sector @housingsector.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Housing Sector Short – Paying to Prove Your Home Is Unsafe Residents raised £4,360 to commission their own fire engineering report. In this interview, a resident describes the struggle to secure enforcement over missing fire doors and challenge official responses to their evidence.
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Housing Sector @housingsector.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Does Housing Have an Events Problem? Part II — and surely even my harshest critics can give me this one: at least two housing events this year simply should not have happened. www.housingsector.co.uk/blog/does-ho... #SocialHousing #HousingEvents #Accountability #HousingSector
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Does Housing Have an Events Problem? Part II — Housing Sector
Ben Jenkins examines David Stevenson’s Regener8 summits, their claimed impact and the legal, police and financial threats that followed scrutiny.
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Housing Sector @housingsector.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
More than 40 housing-sector events in eight months — and still more to come. At what point does the sector admit it has an events problem? www.housingsector.co.uk/blog/does-ho... #Housing #SocialHousing #HousingSector #ResidentEngagement #ValueForMoney
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Does Housing Have an Events Problem? — Housing Sector
Does housing have an events problem? With more than 40 housing-related conferences, summits and awards already identified in 2026, I look at the scale, cost and culture surrounding the sector’s events...
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Housing Sector @housingsector.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
Housing Sector Short – What Happens When a Housing Association Fails? If housing associations could consistently make homes safe, warm and dry, surely they would already be doing it. So what happens when the problem becomes bigger than the organisation’s ability to fix it?
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Housing Sector @housingsector.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
𝐇𝐨𝐮𝐬𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐒𝐞𝐜𝐭𝐨𝐫 𝐒𝐡𝐨𝐫𝐭 — 𝐇𝐨𝐧𝐞𝐬𝐭𝐲, 𝐔𝐧𝐭𝐢𝐥 𝐈𝐭 𝐁𝐞𝐜𝐨𝐦𝐞𝐬 𝐔𝐧𝐜𝐨𝐦𝐟𝐨𝐫𝐭𝐚𝐛𝐥𝐞 Housing associations talk a great deal about openness, transparency, resident voice and engagement. But real engagement means listening when the feedback is difficult, inconvenient or uncomfortable. #HousingSector #BenJenkins
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Housing Sector @housingsector.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
Housing Sector Short — Ben Jenkins vs GreenSquareAccord: Part 1 When speaking out leads to legal threats. In November 2024, Siân Berry MP raised my experience with #GreenSquareAccord during a House of Commons debate on Strategic Lawsuits Against Public Participation — SLAPPs.
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Housing Sector @housingsector.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
We have a right to ask questions. If you claim to represent us, govern us or provide our homes, you should be prepared to answer them. www.housingsector.co.uk/blog/when-th... #SocialHousing #ResidentVoice #TenantVoice #HousingAccountability #ResidentEngagement
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When the Sector’s Own Code Meets Reality — Housing Sector
The National Housing Federation has again published its Code of Conduct, setting out the standards of behaviour, culture and accountability it believes should apply across the social housing sector. I...
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Housing Sector @housingsector.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
Housing Sector Short — Three Tips for Residents Struggling to Be Heard and Supported When you’ve spent months chasing answers, repeating yourself and getting nowhere, giving up can start to feel like the only option.
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Housing Sector @housingsector.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
Housing Sector Short — Get Off Your Arse Sometimes the message to senior leaders in housing needs to be simple. #HousingSector #HousingSectorPodcast #TenantVoice #SocialHousing #HousingAssociation #CouncilHousing #ResidentEngagement #HousingRepairs #Accountability #TikTokHousing
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Housing Sector @housingsector.bsky.social · 10/08/2026
Open letter to @bhamcitycouncil.bsky.social, If you now have serious reservations about working with #GreenSquareAccord, isn’t it time to audit the £42.3m in Housing Benefit already paid over the last three years? #Birmingham #HousingBenefit #FollowTheMoney
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Housing Sector @housingsector.bsky.social · 04/08/2026
Housing Sector Short – Does TPAS Really Represent Tenants? #TPAS presents itself as the voice of tenants, but does this promotional video reflect the experiences of people living in social housing, shared ownership or leasehold properties? #TennantEngagement
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Housing Sector @housingsector.bsky.social · 03/08/2026
Why #GreenSquareAccord and #ThamesWater seem happy to ignore leaks and complaints... #RuthCooke
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Housing Sector @housingsector.bsky.social · 03/08/2026
A #GreenSquareAccord project is now being sold by Creative Bridge. Who owns it, who profits, and where is the evidence behind the claimed 43% fall in complaints? www.greensquareaccordresidents.co.uk/the-trials-o... #SocialHousing #Transparency #Governance #SteveHayes #SophieAtkinson #RuthCooke
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The Trials of Mrs Tranter — GreenSquareAccord Residents
GreenSquareAccord residents question who owns and profits from The Trials of Mrs Tranter, as unverified claims of a 43% complaints reduction are used to market the training programme.
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Housing Sector @housingsector.bsky.social · 14/06/2026
Following rumours of a potential merger involving #GreenSquareAccord and @MidlandHeart, I contacted both organisations directly. How refreshing to receive a professional response from Midland Heart, while GreenSquareAccord continues to hide behind its blanket refusal to engage
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Housing Sector @housingsector.bsky.social · 09/06/2026
Remember when #SteveHayes made false allegations against me that resulted in my arrest in August 2024? This was never about harassment. It was about narrative control following failed legal action against my website and growing scrutiny of #GreenSquareAccord. www.youtube.com/shorts/XCbZb...
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GSA Way Short – The Arrest
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Housing Sector @housingsector.bsky.social · 07/06/2026
Time to 'fess-up' as they say on the streets? www.youtube.com/shorts/lYCv6... #HousingSector #SocialHousing #HousingAssociations #Governance #Transparency #TenantVoice #ResidentVoice #Accountability #BenJenkins #HannahHowardJones
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Housing Sector Short – Somebody Needs to Rip the Plaster Off
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Housing Sector @housingsector.bsky.social · 14/05/2026
Disputed service charges shouldn’t be “pay first, argue later.” This is a fair and transparent proposal that residents and good landlords should both support. petition.parliament.uk/petitions/767125 #Housing #ServiceCharges #SocialHousing #BenJenkins @shacaction.bsky.social
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Petition: Allow disputed landlord service charges be paid to courts for better justice
Make it possible for tenant/leaseholders to pay disputed service charges to a court. The funds will then only pass to landlords if they can prove the charge's legitimacy within a specified timeframe. ...
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Housing Sector @housingsector.bsky.social · 14/05/2026
Congratulations to @zoegarbett.bsky.social on being elected Mayor of Hackney. I spoke with Zoë on the Housing Sector Podcast about housing and resident voice. Good to see honest voices stepping into leadership. www.youtube.com/watch?v=IwdJ... #Housing #SocialHousing #LocalGovernment #Hackney
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Housing Sector Podcast #47: In Conversation with Zoë Garbett
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Housing Sector @housingsector.bsky.social · 14/05/2026
Disputed service charges shouldn’t be “pay first, argue later.” This is a fair and transparent proposal that residents and good landlords should both support. petition.parliament.uk/petitions/767125 #Housing #ServiceCharges #SocialHousing #BenJenkins @shacaction.bsky.social
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Petition: Allow disputed landlord service charges be paid to courts for better justice
Make it possible for tenant/leaseholders to pay disputed service charges to a court. The funds will then only pass to landlords if they can prove the charge's legitimacy within a specified timeframe. ...
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Housing Sector @housingsector.bsky.social · 11/05/2026
Housing Sector Podcast #71 The Decant Trap Residents from Southwark and RBKC discuss temporary decants, disrepair, regeneration, accountability, and fears that some “temporary” moves are becoming permanent displacement. www.youtube.com/watch?v=6sgo... #HousingSector #SocialHousing
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Housing Sector Podcast #71 - The Decant Trap
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Housing Sector @housingsector.bsky.social · 10/05/2026
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Housing Sector Shorts Are Decants Being Used for Gentrification?
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Housing Sector @housingsector.bsky.social · 20/04/2026
18 months. No rent. No eviction. In #HousingSector Podcast #70, a landlord pays rent, mortgage, and bills on a home he can’t access. When does protection become imbalance? youtu.be/en9sD9UyZag #HousingSector #BenJenkins #Section21 #HousingCrisis
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Housing Sector #70 The Landlord’s Trap
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Housing Sector @housingsector.bsky.social · 19/04/2026
Housing demo London - the voice of the customer is loud and clear, it’s just not at the events CEOs go to! youtube.com/shorts/xgUDg...
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Live from the frontlines
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Housing Sector @housingsector.bsky.social · 16/04/2026
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
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Housing Sector Clips – Legal Battles: Why Residents Are at a Disadvantage
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Housing Sector @housingsector.bsky.social · 15/04/2026
Missing invoices. Rising service charges. Same patterns across landlords. Is this failure — or a playbook? www.housingsector.co.uk/blog/the-service-charge-playbook #HousingSector #ServiceCharges #SocialHousing #Accountability #BenJenkins #GreenSquareAccord #Peabody
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The Service Charge Playbook — Housing Sector
An in-depth investigation into service charges in the social housing sector, examining missing invoices, transparency failures, and governance concerns across housing associations including Peabody an...
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Housing Sector @housingsector.bsky.social · 14/04/2026
How is your service charge being spent? www.youtube.com/shorts/KO4_8... #GreenSquareAccord #RuthCooke #SteveHayes
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Housing Sector short: Trials of Mrs Tranter
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Housing Sector @housingsector.bsky.social · 13/04/2026
On this weeks podcast I talk to Katie Joyce about her book New Beginnings published by @spectrum-books.com. I sat down with Katie Joyce to talk about her book New Beginnings — a fictional story grounded in real experiences from homelessness services. www.youtube.com/watch?v=gghE...
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Housing Sector Podcast #69 – New Beginnings with Katie Joyce
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Housing Sector @housingsector.bsky.social · 12/04/2026
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Housing Sector Short – Why Housing Staff Burn Out
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Housing Sector @housingsector.bsky.social · 12/04/2026
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Housing Sector Short – You’re Only Two Paychecks Away
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Housing Sector @housingsector.bsky.social · 07/04/2026
£500,000 in service charges… with no invoices. In Podcast #68, I speak with Muna_Suz from @shacaction.bsky.social about #Peabody, service charge overcharging, and the legal tactics used to silence residents. This isn’t one case—it’s a pattern. www.youtube.com/watch?v=KO5r...
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Housing Sector Podcast #68 - Missing Invoices, Legal Threats and the Housing Playbook
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Housing Sector @housingsector.bsky.social · 06/04/2026
From service charge to funding our own prosecution. youtube.com/shorts/XbVdA... In this clip, I explain how residents can end up indirectly funding the very legal action used against them. #GreenSquareAccord #SLAPPs
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Housing Sector Short – Who Really Profits from Legal Threats?
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Housing Sector @housingsector.bsky.social · 06/04/2026
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Housing Sector @housingsector.bsky.social · 06/04/2026
When rents were cut by 1% annually from 2016, it changed the financial model for housing providers. In this short clip, Suz Muna explain how that policy shift pushed landlords to look elsewhere for income—and how service charges became the focus. @shacaction.bsky.social youtube.com/shorts/SI6gR...
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Housing Sector Short – When Rent Cuts Led to Service Charge Rises
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SHAC: The Social Housing Action Campaign @shacaction.bsky.social · 28/03/2026
Government allows landlords (likes Hastoe, a housing association in this case) to rip money from our pockets with these unjustified and extortionate rises. We're fighting back. If you're affected, please join us.
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SHAC: The Social Housing Action Campaign @shacaction.bsky.social · 28/03/2026
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. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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Leaseholders in Luton forced to pay for fire safety work
Joseph Brown says the charges for his flat will increase by about £1,500 a quarter from April.
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Ben (he/him) @filosofical-140.bsky.social · 25/03/2026
Great to hear Martin is standing in #le2026 to fix the problems. welcome 💚
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Housing Sector @housingsector.bsky.social · 25/03/2026
Housing Sector Podcast #67 is live. A follow-up with Martin Donkin on Coniston House — delays, disruption, and serious questions about transparency and accountability. www.youtube.com/watch?v=35lV... #HousingSector #BenJenkins #SocialHousing #TenantVoice #Transparency
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Housing Sector Podcast #67 - From Modular Promise to Ongoing Mess
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Housing Sector @housingsector.bsky.social · 23/03/2026
Raised in the House of Commons last week. My full account of SLAPPs involving GreenSquareAccord is now live. www.housingsector.co.uk/blog/slapps-... #SLAPPs #HousingSector #SocialHousing
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SLAPPs - Ben Jenkins vs. GreenSquareAccord — Housing Sector
A resident’s case against GreenSquareAccord exposes the use of SLAPPs in social housing. After complaints were upheld, the response escalated into legal threats, restrictions, and court action. This a...
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Housing Sector @housingsector.bsky.social · 16/03/2026
This week I cover a Housing Ombudsman update, service charge scrutiny, and the early progress of a First-tier Tribunal challenge. After a Section 22 request, corrections have already reduced charges by around 30%. youtu.be/A1TuMIxXp4A #HousingSector
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Housing Sector Raw: Honest Conversations About Housing
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Housing Sector @housingsector.bsky.social · 16/03/2026
@bhamcitycouncil.bsky.social and Walsall Council identified over £60m linked to GreenSquareAccord in three years. Wiltshire Council says retrieving the same figures would exceed FOI limits. If some councils can find the numbers, why can others not? www.housingsector.co.uk/blog/followi...
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Following the Money - Housing Benefit, Councils and the Accountability Gap — Housing Sector
An investigation into how Housing Benefit flows from local councils to housing associations, revealing tens of millions of pounds in public money linked to a single provider and raising serious questi...
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Housing Sector @housingsector.bsky.social · 11/03/2026
A look at influence in the housing sector — including GreenSquareAccord, the @cihhousing.bsky.social , and the wider ecosystem around initiatives like Four Million Homes. open.substack.com/pub/housings... #HousingSector #BenJenkins #SocialHousing #CIH #FourMillionHomes
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Spin. Silence. Repeat.
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Housing Sector @housingsector.bsky.social · 09/03/2026
A governance dispute at Sir Thomas More Estate in Kensington & Chelsea raises questions about residents’ associations, major works, and who holds legitimate authority to represent a community. www.housingsector.co.uk/blog/who-spe... #HousingSector #SocialHousing #TenantVoice #RBKC
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Who Speaks for Residents? The Governance Dispute at Sir Thomas More Estate — Housing Sector
A governance dispute at Sir Thomas More Estate raises questions about residents’ association independence, major works oversight, and who truly represents residents.
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SHAC: The Social Housing Action Campaign @shacaction.bsky.social · 04/03/2026
Rachel is speaking out because she has evidence to show how revenge evictions by housing associations happen, step by step, and because many tenants do not survive the process long enough to document it. shaction.org/2026/03/04/o...
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Facing Eviction: A Tenant's Battle Against Damp and Disrepair
Facing homelessness and health risks, one tenant exposes systemic failures in housing safety and tenant rights. Discover her urgent story.
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Housing Sector @housingsector.bsky.social · 04/03/2026
The truth about the housing sector rarely sits in one place. But when the pieces start coming together, the picture becomes much clearer. The truth is out there — here, there and everywhere. #HousingSector #SocialHousing #TenantVoice #BenJenkins open.substack.com/pub/housings...
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The truth is out there, here, there and everywhere.
The sectors obsession with tenant satisfaction
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