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SHAC: The Social Housing Action Campaign

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SHAC is a campaign group linking tenants, renters, shared owners, and leaseholders living in homes owned by social and private landlords. Together we campaign for more public housing & to improve housing conditions.

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Paul Kershaw @paulsocialist.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
'oversaw the running of the Grenfell landlord’s tenant management organisation (TMO). The Grenfell inquiry was highly critical of its operation saying that it was responsible for “chronic and systemic failings” in fire safety management, as well as a “toxic” relationship with the tower’s residents'
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SHAC: The Social Housing Action Campaign @shacaction.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
SHAC Article - Standing With Survivors: SHAC Joins Grenfell United Demand That Barnet homes Sacks Laura Johnson. Barnet Council shares responsibility for the actions of this wholly owned council company too. shaction.org/2026/09/24/s...
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SHAC - Housing CampaignStanding With Survivors: SHAC Joins Grenfell United Demand That Barnet Sacks Laura Johnson
Grenfell United, the group representing the bereaved and survivors, has called on Barnet Group to reverse its appointment of the former housing director of the Royal Borough of Kensington and Chels…
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SHAC: The Social Housing Action Campaign @shacaction.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
SHAC and Members in the Guardian - Awaab’s law not working www.theguardian.com/society/2026... Really simple: No point creating new laws unless you make it possible for people to enforce them. The deliberate enforcement gap keeps the landlord lobby happy. Hence we need a #NationalHousingUnion.
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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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Paul Kershaw @paulsocialist.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Unite calling for council house building, rent control and no above inflation social rent increases & much more at the TUC Report here: www.housingworkers.org.uk/readnews.htm... @shacaction.bsky.social
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SHAC: The Social Housing Action Campaign @shacaction.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
SHAC on Housing Panel at Peace and Justice Project Annual Conference - join us if you can! 3pm, Sunday 20th September, Arts two Lecture Theatre 335 Mile End Rd, Bethnal Green, London E1 4NT thecorbynproject.com/events/annua...
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Teviot Watch @teviotwatch.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Plans for a new housing union to be launched at TUC Congress today Suzanne Muna from @shacaction.bsky.social said "We expect a big fightback but if it doesn’t happen here we are not going to stop […] this is going to happen and it’s just a matter of when" www.morningstaronline.co.uk/article/hous...
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Plans for first-ever housing union to be launched at TUC Congress
PLANS for a new housing union, complete with rent strikes and legal advocacy, will be launched at TUC Congress tomorrow.Volunteers at the Social Housing Action Campaign (SHAC) will present their 70-pa...
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Paul Kershaw @paulsocialist.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
“it’s becoming clear to people that none of these parties are speaking for us on housing now so we need to create tenant and resident power. “I think the lack of working-class representation is a massive factor and that is something that’s been a gradual process of erosion"
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SHAC: The Social Housing Action Campaign @shacaction.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
SHAC in the Morning Star - Plans for first-ever housing union to be launched at TUC Congress Thx to Morning Star for covering the National Housing Union project. The response at the TUC has been fantastic. We're ready for the next phase. www.morningstaronline.co.uk/article/hous...
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Plans for first-ever housing union to be launched at TUC Congress
PLANS for a new housing union, complete with rent strikes and legal advocacy, will be launched at TUC Congress tomorrow.Volunteers at the Social Housing Action Campaign (SHAC) will present their 70-pa...
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SHAC: The Social Housing Action Campaign @shacaction.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
What a Day! Our Blueprint for a National Housing Union is flying high at the TUC annual conference. We're halfway through our stack of the boxes & we still have the fringe mtng tomorrow. Read the blueprint - back the campaign - get your union involved: shaction.org/a-national-h... #SHACBlueprint
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SHAC: The Social Housing Action Campaign @shacaction.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
We're here ... it's day one of the Trade Union Congress and we're broadcasting SHAC's National Housing Union Blueprint Housing is a trade union issue. It’s time to fight together! ✊🏠 #SHACBlueprint #HousingCrisis #TradeUnions #SocialHousing #TUC2026 #TenantsRights #HousingUnion
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SHAC: The Social Housing Action Campaign @shacaction.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
SHAC Article: I Thought I Was Just Checking My Service Charges shaction.org/2026/09/05/i... Olivia started out checking figures on a service charge letters & ended up building resident power: a journey she never expected to take, but her experience will be familiar to many. #EndServiceChargeAbuse
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Social Housing Action CampaignI Thought I Was Just Checking My Service Charges
By Olivia Virag An Ordinary Question When I moved into my shared ownership home in July 2020, I wasn’t looking for a campaign or preparing for a legal dispute. Like most people, I simply want…
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SHAC: The Social Housing Action Campaign @shacaction.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
SHAC Article - Peabody Was Convicted. It Took a Resident to Make it Happen The real story here is the lack of state protection. shaction.org/2026/08/27/p... A devastating disconnect - the illusion of state oversight, but tenants & residents are on their own. Join us to hold landlords to account.
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Social Housing Action CampaignPeabody Was Convicted. It Took a Resident to Make it Happen
By David Wood On 11 August 2026, a representative of Peabody Trust stood in Thames Magistrates’ Court and pleaded guilty to a criminal offence: failing, without reasonable excuse, to provide …
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SHAC: The Social Housing Action Campaign @shacaction.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
SHAC in the Morning Star: "Burnham ‘capitulates to landlords and the housing market,’ campaigners say" It shows that the interests of the landlord class are still the most powerful bloc in Westminster, and that we need to create our own power. morningstaronline.co.uk/article/burn...
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Burnham ‘capitulates to landlords and the housing market,’ campaigners say
CAMPAIGNERS slammed Andy Burnham today for betraying his own promises in “a major capitulation to the housing market and the landlord class.”The Social Housing Action Campaign (SHAC) hit back at the P...
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SHAC: The Social Housing Action Campaign @shacaction.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
SHAC on BBC Radio London - Investing in Council Housing We welcomed govt's improved investment in council housing & said funds should also be used to refurbish empty council homes, Right to Buy needs to end, & 100% should be social rents instead of the 60% target. youtube.com/watch?v=F9W5...
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SHAC on BBC Radio London - Investing in Council Housing
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SHAC: The Social Housing Action Campaign @shacaction.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
SHAC Article: Antisocial Behaviour and the Evidence Loop Trap After lived experience at the sharp end of ASB, Dean used his knowledge to write a plan for improving ASB case handling & enforcement: “Protecting the Right to Peaceful Enjoyment”. Now used to lobby MPs. shaction.org/2026/08/24/a...
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Social Housing Action CampaignAntisocial Behaviour and the Evidence Loop Trap
Social housing landlords are failing victims of anti-social behaviour (ASB) on a systemic scale, trapping vulnerable tenants in a endless cycle of administrative neglect while sitting on extensive …
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expected @expected000.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
2/2 Add them to Schedule 19 of the Equality Act And they can no longer try and wriggle out of their responsibilities towards a large number of their tenants Then make evasion a criminal offence
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expected @expected000.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
One thing would help pull Housing Associations into the realm of accountability From the 1882 Cross report to the present day Parliamentary scrutiny has opined that Housing Associations be viewed as 'public bodies'. Housing Associations try to claim they are not covered by the Act 1/2
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SHAC: The Social Housing Action Campaign @shacaction.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
SHAC Article: We Can End the Conspiracy of Silence: Join MPs’ Call for Action shaction.org/2026/08/20/w...
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Social Housing Action CampaignWe Can End the Conspiracy of Silence: Join MPs’ Call for Action
By SHAC and Lindsay Bush Bell Ribeiro-Addy MP and a cross-party group of MPs have blasted the Government’s lack of housing association accountability, writing to the Housing Minister, Angela …
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SHAC: The Social Housing Action Campaign @shacaction.bsky.social · 16/08/2026
Thx to @bellribeiroaddy.bsky.social for this! Please share the letter. If your MP is one of the signatories, please encourage to maintain pressure on Government to address the gap. If your MP is not among the signatories, please ask them to endorse it.
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SHAC: The Social Housing Action Campaign @shacaction.bsky.social · 09/08/2026
SHAC Article - Please like and share: Notting Hill Woes: Residents Win Legal Battle Over Historic Repair Costs shaction.org/2026/08/09/n... This raises important questions about landlords recovering major works costs from leaseholders. But it's also more bad news for erially scandal-hit NHG.
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Social Housing Action CampaignNotting Hill Woes: Residents Win Legal Battle Over Historic Repair Costs
Notting Hill Genesis (NHG) has lost a First Tier Tribunal Case after attempting to recover historic major works costs by raiding the residents’ reserve fund. The decision of the First-tier Tr…
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SHAC: The Social Housing Action Campaign @shacaction.bsky.social · 28/07/2026
The government is wrong to rule out rent caps in the private sector, just as it was wrong to pledge social rent increases above inflation. shaction.org/2026/07/28/t...
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Social Housing Action CampaignThe Double Squeeze: Government’s Rent Failure
Government’s Two-Front Rent Failure Betrays British Tenants Housing Secretary Angela Rayner’s explicit decision to rule out private rent controls, coupled with the government’s policy a…
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SHAC: The Social Housing Action Campaign @shacaction.bsky.social · 25/07/2026
SHAC and Members in the News: "In a court ruling, Judge Elizabeth Cooke said that the leaseholders could not be required to pay service charges for parts of the development ... which they were not entitled to use." This is the crazy world of #ServiceChargeAbuse. telegraph.co.uk/money/proper...
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SHAC: The Social Housing Action Campaign @shacaction.bsky.social · 14/07/2026
SHAC Article: Service Charge Abuse: Audit Office Validates SHAC Risk Evidence and Campaigners Win Landmark Ruling shaction.org/2026/07/14/s... #EndServiceChargeAbuse
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Social Housing Action CampaignService Charge Abuse: Audit Office Validates SHAC Risk Evidence and Campaigners Win Landmark Ruling
On Friday 10th July, SHAC received fresh communication from the National Audit Office (NAO), for the first time concurring with SHAC that there is a serious gap in regulatory oversight when it come…
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SHAC: The Social Housing Action Campaign @shacaction.bsky.social · 13/07/2026
SHAC Article - A Pensioner’s Fight Against Housing Injustice shaction.org/2026/07/13/a... "Last year I experienced a retaliatory eviction ... It is part of a pattern. Since 2021, I have been forced to move three times." Join SHAC's project to end housing injustice for all. #NationalHousingUnion.
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Social Housing Action CampaignA Pensioner’s Fight Against Housing Injustice
By June Atkinson Last year I experienced a retaliatory eviction. It happened when the landlord and rental agency asked me to pay for repairs. It was illegal, but I had little protection because the…
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SHAC: The Social Housing Action Campaign @shacaction.bsky.social · 08/07/2026
SHAC Article: Over 100 Southwark Families Face Eviction from Former Notting Hill Genesis Homes 🚨 shaction.org/2026/07/08/a... Corporate landlord BMR Group Ltd bought the homes from social landlord NHG. Residents are fighting back, demanding action from Southwark Council. #NoEvictions
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Social Housing Action CampaignA Community Under Threat: Southwark Families Fight Mass Evictions
Housing Campaigners Demand Council Action as Corporate Landlord BMR Group Targets More Than 100 Families Tenants on the St James Estate in the London Borough of Southwark are fighting mass eviction…
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SHAC: The Social Housing Action Campaign @shacaction.bsky.social · 27/06/2026
Our Blueprint for a national housing union is here. You can leave your feedback on the page too to share your views. The housing emergency and lack of access to justice for tenants and residents are well-documented. We need a mass, national, democratic union. shaction.org/a-national-h...
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Blueprint for a National Housing Union
A National Housing Union for All Tenants and Residents The housing emeergency and lack of access to justice for tenants and residents are both well-documented. Our solution is a mass, national, dem…
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SHAC: The Social Housing Action Campaign @shacaction.bsky.social · 25/06/2026
*SHAC Article - The Three Closed Doors: A Stress Test of Leasehold Accountability* shaction.org/2026/06/25/t... David Wood offers a sharp analysis of the systems that were supposed to keep tenants and residents safe from landlord exploitation. Verdict: They are completely failing.
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Social Housing Action CampaignThe Three Closed Doors: A Stress Test of Leasehold Accountability
By David Wood I became a banker in 2007. The lesson I took from the financial crisis was not that banks should cease to exist. It was that systems which appear robust on paper can contain weaknesse…
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aldtu.bsky.social @aldtu.bsky.social · 22/06/2026
Big Issue founder urges action on empty homes: 'What are we going to do about boarded-up houses?' buff.ly/jolMQcw @marisharay.bsky.social @libhousing.bsky.social @gideonamos.bsky.social @libdemlocalgov.bsky.social @laylamoran.bsky.social @shacaction.bsky.social @bigissue.com
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Labour urged to act on empty homes in Social Housing Bill
Labour’s Social Housing Bill is aiming to limit Right to Buy rules but Lord John Bird has urged ministers to take action on empty homes too.
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SHAC: The Social Housing Action Campaign @shacaction.bsky.social · 20/06/2026
SHAC Article: 🚩 Westminster Council serves as a warning: failing local democracy & institutional defensiveness replace public accountability. 🚩🚩 The impact on tenants & residents is devastating. 🚩🚩🚩 It's a call to create our own power! #SHACNationalHousingUnion shaction.org/2026/06/20/w...
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Social Housing Action CampaignWestminster’s Accountability Crisis: A Call to Action
By Boz For all the noise of national politics, Britain is missing the collapse of something more fundamental: the ability of ordinary people to hold local power to account. Westminster, of all plac…
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SHAC: The Social Housing Action Campaign @shacaction.bsky.social · 13/06/2026
SHAC Comment in the Press Pete Apps has been one of the most dedicated reporters on the scandal of the Grenfell fire which could have been prevented if authorities had listened to tenants and residents. peteapps.substack.com/p/has-social...
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Has social housing changed since Grenfell?
Nine years ago, a different government promised reflection and transformative policies for social housing tenants. But did it come to anything?
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SHAC: The Social Housing Action Campaign @shacaction.bsky.social · 07/06/2026
SHAC in the News - The Guardian highlighs 20% of councils built no social housing in the last two years, and that if govt continues to deliver at a snail’s pace, none of us alive today will see the end of the housing emergency. SHAC's agitating for real change! theguardian.com/society/2026...
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Social housing lists ‘would take 119 years to clear at current building rate’
Research shows generations of children in England will grow up homeless unless government addresses council housing debt, charity says
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SHAC: The Social Housing Action Campaign @shacaction.bsky.social · 06/06/2026
SHAC Comment in the Press Thanks to Camden New Journal for covering the shocking cost of housing - something that seems to have become normalised in the majority of the press. We cannot & should not accept it (see P8 of e-edition). edition.pagesuite.com/html5/reader...
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Camden New Journal - 04/06/2026
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SHAC: The Social Housing Action Campaign @shacaction.bsky.social · 27/05/2026
A massive new national survey of 829 residents by SHAC reveals rampant service charge exploitation across the UK, just as Housing Minister Matthew Pennycook rejects calls to cap skyrocketing costs. #EndServiceChargeAbuse shaction.org/2026/05/27/m...
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Social Housing Action CampaignMass Survey Exposes Rampant Service Charge Abuse as Housing Minister Rejects Caps
New data from SHAC’s comprehensive national survey of 829 residents has exposed an environment of widespread service charge abuse, directly challenging the government’s refusal to protect ten…
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SHAC: The Social Housing Action Campaign @shacaction.bsky.social · 23/05/2026
Our new Parliamentary Petition has launched. It calls for government to make it possible for tenants and leaseholders to pay disputed service charges to a court to decide who gets the money. Please sign and share, share, share! petition.parliament.uk/petitions/76...
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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
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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SHAC: The Social Housing Action Campaign @shacaction.bsky.social · 10/05/2026
News from SHAC myemail.constantcontact.com/---News-and-... SHAC Article on social housing / National Housing Union updates / legal action and political lobbying to end service charge abuse / political lobbying on shared ownership / new works on the SHAC art space.
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Email from The Social Housing Action Campaign SHAC ~ Protest ~ Article ~ Research     Dear - 9th May 2026 Updates  In this issue SHAC Article: Social Housing in the UK: A Brutal War of Attrition A Na
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SHAC: The Social Housing Action Campaign @shacaction.bsky.social · 07/05/2026
SHAC Article: A Brutal War of Attrition shaction.org/2026/05/07/s... As Hassan says: "The accountability gap isn’t a malfunction. It’s a design feature." We're working towards a Housing Union by and for tenants and residents to rebalance landlord-tenant power. More at shaction.org/a-national-h...
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Social Housing Action CampaignSocial Housing in the UK: A Brutal War of Attrition
By guest writer Hassan Elbiali Imagine your roof leaks. You report it. Nothing happens. You report it again. You get a reference number. Then another. You escalate to the formal complaints process.…
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SHAC: The Social Housing Action Campaign @shacaction.bsky.social · 20/04/2026
On Saturday, we marched with around 6,000 housing warriors on the National Housing Demonstration. We had a huge range of different groups, and it was a great privilege to meet so many other campaigners. Solidarity to all! shaction.org/national-hou...
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National Housing Demonstration – April 2026
SHAC and more than 60 housing campaigns, trade unions, and other groups marched on the 18th April 2026 to demand genuinely affordable housing. With thanks to the Homes for All and Homes for Us coal…
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SHAC: The Social Housing Action Campaign @shacaction.bsky.social · 20/04/2026
SHAC Article - FirstPort & the £300,000 Black Hole FirstPort: living proof of hyper-exploitation of tenants & residents as govt willfully looks the other way. #EndServiceChargeAbuse shaction.org/2026/04/20/t...
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Social Housing Action CampaignThe £300,000 Black Hole: FirstPort’s Mystery Heating Bills
What would you do if your management company suddenly demanded up to £2,000 for heating, but refused to show you how the bill was calculated? This is the reality facing around 300 households at Wes…
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SHAC: The Social Housing Action Campaign @shacaction.bsky.social · 13/04/2026
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. shaction.org/2026/04/13/t... #EndServiceChargeAbuse
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Social Housing Action CampaignThe Great Housing Benefit Heist
How Landlords are Siphoning Millions in Unearned Service Charges from the Welfare State A new investigation by SHAC reveals a systemic failure in the Housing Benefit system, allowing landlords to o…
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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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SHAC: The Social Housing Action Campaign @shacaction.bsky.social · 02/04/2026
SHAC Article: Missing Info and the Service Charge Maze -Service charges spiralled & an email built a residents’ assoc. shaction.org/2026/04/02/m... David has exceptional evidence of service charge abuse by Peabody but his experience is common. £500k of missing invoices. #EndServiceChargeAbuse
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Social Housing Action CampaignMissing Information and the Service Charge Maze
Missing information and the service charge maze: how one email built a residents’ association By SHAC member David Woodrow Our residents’ association was born from an accident. In August 2024, our …
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SHAC: The Social Housing Action Campaign @shacaction.bsky.social · 30/03/2026
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 tinyurl.com/CSCSMeet
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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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SHAC: The Social Housing Action Campaign @shacaction.bsky.social · 15/03/2026
SHAC in the News. The increase in social landlord evictions increase is the inevitable outcome of government's housing policy (such as it is) which focusses on building new supply to the exclusion of almost anything else. insidehousing.co.uk/news/bailiff...
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Bailiff evictions by social landlords rise 10% in a year, latest statistics show
The number of bailiff evictions by social housing landlords rose by 10% in England and Wales last year, according to the latest government statistics.
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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 · 02/03/2026
In Episode 66 of the Housing Sector Podcast, Suz from @shacaction.bsky.social and I discuss service charges, housing benefit oversight, communication plans, and why many residents never make it to tribunal. youtu.be/xwkk64KfC5s #HousingSector #ServiceCharges #SocialHousing
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Housing Sector Podcast #66 - Communication Plans, Service Charge Overcharging, and more
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Housing Sector @housingsector.bsky.social · 27/02/2026
Over 63% of concluded First-tier Property Tribunal cases on resulted in judges finding some level of overcharging — with charges reduced or removed, and in some cases services not delivered at all. @shacaction.bsky.social breaks down what that means for residents. www.youtube.com/shorts/iJcx8...
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Housing Sector Short – 63% of Service Charge Cases Found Overcharging
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SHAC: The Social Housing Action Campaign @shacaction.bsky.social · 15/02/2026
SHAC Article - London Rents A Blow to Key Workers - by Mary Pimm shaction.org/2026/02/15/l... "the failure to consult all interested parties [meant] the dominant voices were housing associations, councils and other providers" Why we're campaigning for change.
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Social Housing Action CampaignLondon Rents A Blow to Key Workers
By Mary Pimm, SHAC member and Victoria Park Community Association Chair In November 2024, the Mayor of London initiated a consultation about devising a Key Worker Living Rent (KWLR) plan. It ended …
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SHAC: The Social Housing Action Campaign @shacaction.bsky.social · 13/02/2026
SHAC Research Finds Overcharging in More Than 63% of Tribunal Cases But government and landlords continue to deny that it is systematic! #EndServiceChargeAbuse shaction.org/2026/02/13/s...
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Social Housing Action CampaignSHAC Research Finds Overcharging in More Than 63% of Tribunal Cases
New research carried out by SHAC shows that across all the cases of service charges challenged at the First Tier Property Tribunal (FTT), more than 63% of landlords were found to be overcharging fo…
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