Will there be meaningful change on the key issues of non-cladding defects, non-qualifying leaseholders, extortionate buildings insurance or shared ownership buybacks in 2026? We aren’t holding our breath. #BuildingSafetyCrisis

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Today we met with Building Safety Minister @samanthadixonmp.bsky.social We requested: 👉 better information on gov.uk for shared owners impacted by the building safety crisis 👉 a rethink of the RICS valuation system for resales 👉 a buyback scheme for unsellable flats.

🚨 Shared owners 🚨 What changes do you want to see❔ Buybacks❔ Affordable service charges❔ Something else❔ Today is your LAST CHANCE to tell Committee MPs in a short survey. Results will feed into their report to the Govt. 🗓️ Deadline: 29/11 🔗 forms.office.com/e/kA1tD0R1Me

🚫 Too many shared owners are trapped in homes they can no longer afford, with no viable exit route. Grateful to Select Committee Chair Florence Eshalomi for asking Housing Secretary Steve Reed MP about the long-term affordability of shared ownership. #UKhousing #SharedOwnership

🗨️ Baroness Thornhill: "I was obviously aware of the issues around shared ownership, but what shocked me was the actual costs incurred and the amounts of money lost" Why is shared ownership marketed as affordable housing? Where is the evidence?

🗨️ "They really are the raw end of the market. They get a raw deal in many different ways" Baroness Thornhill is right. ❌ Far too many shared owners are trapped in properties they can't sell and can no longer afford. 👉 It is time for the Government to fund buybacks.

A shared owner wrote to the Committee about the financial & emotional impact of trying to sell their flat. 🖋️ "This case is not unique. It highlights systemic failings within shared ownership." @matthewpennycookmp.bsky.social shared owners need buybacks and a statutory right to exit the scheme.

🚨 Association of Mortgage Intermediaries warning about shared ownership: "While the model is designed to reduce entry costs by allowing buyers to purchase a share of a property and pay rent on the remainder, the overall affordability is often questionable." #mortgages #SharedOwnership

🖋️ "Shared Ownership, as it currently exists, is not a genuinely affordable or secure route to home ownership. It has been marketed as a stepping stone but has in practice become a trap for many people like me." Written evidence submitted to the Housing Committee.

Affordability of Home Ownership inquiry 🆕 Our written evidence to the House of Commons Housing Committee inquiry has been published. #SharedOwnership committees.parliament.uk/writtenevide...

Shared owners who sublet will not be penalised if their sale falls through. But the Govt must do more to help victims of the building safety crisis. This should include changes to unfair RICS valuation rules and funding for buybacks of unsaleable flats. www.insidehousing.co.uk/home/shared-...

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📢 SHARED OWNERS Issues with resales, staircasing, lease extensions, subletting, valuations, or anything else? 👉 Write to the Government. Use their online form ⤵️ www.gov.uk/guidance/con...

We look forward to meeting Steve Reed MP and @samanthadixonmp.bsky.social today. Much more needs to be done to support shared owners trapped in the building safety crisis.

🆕 BREAKING NEWS We won❗🎉 The Government has finally accepted Lord Young's amendment to the Renters' Rights Bill. Shared owners who are accidental landlords will be exempt from the 12-month ban on reletting if their sale falls through. #BuildingSafetyCrisis

🗓️ The Renters' Rights Bill will be back in the House of Lords on 14 October. Lord Young of Cookham has again tabled an amendment to protect shared owners who are accidental landlords because of the building safety crisis. This is what the Minister said in Parliament last month.

All we want is a way out of this dreadful trap. It has been mis-sold to thousands of people. It's not affordable. It's exploitative. It's unethical. Stop funding more of it.

Words are cheap @matthewpennycookmp.bsky.social I thought Labour would help. We're stuck in a one bed flat we will probably never be able to sell. What are you doing to help shared owners?

🗨️ @matthewpennycookmp.bsky.social "I’m giving an incredible amount of thought to how we improve the experience for shared owners." Will existing shared owners benefit, or will they be left behind❓ 🚨 Too many can't sell and can't afford their service charge. www.insidehousing.co.uk/news/news/ho...

This is the reality for Leaseholders ➡️We are not seeing 👀 change ➡️We are not feeling change Leaseholders have waited long enough 5 MILLION leaseholders will judge @teamlabouruk.bsky.social by their actions, not their words ⛓️LEASEHOLDERS REMAIN TRAPPED #Lab25 #Leasehold

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📢 SHARED OWNERS ❓ Issues with resales, staircasing, lease extensions, subletting, valuations, or anything else? 👉 Write to the Government. Use their online form ⤵️ www.gov.uk/guidance/con...

🔴 VALUATIONS @libdemdaisy.bsky.social asked the Govt whether staircasing valuations can be appealed with evidence of significant variations between RICS valuations and actual sale prices of similar properties. #SharedOwnership Answer here ⤵️ questions-statements.parliament.uk/written-ques...

📢 SHARED OWNERS ❓ Issues with resales, staircasing, lease extensions, subletting, valuations, or anything else? 👉 Write to the Government. Use their online form ⤵️ www.gov.uk/guidance/con...

🗨️ @matthewpennycookmp.bsky.social "I know from my own efforts to support shared owners in my constituency of Greenwich and Woolwich that those affected by the building safety crisis often face unaffordable costs, often with no viable exit route other than a distressed sale." #SharedOwnership

The Renters' Rights Bill returns to the House of Commons today. In July the @UKHouseofLords adopted an amendment to protect shared owners who are accidental landlords. The Govt is expected to reject it.

Are you a shared owner❓ Get our email updates with news on: ☑️ Buybacks ☑️ Valuations ☑️ Subletting ☑️ Resales ☑️ Lease extensions ☑️ Building safety 🔗 Join us. Link in next post. #SharedOwnership

⚖️ Shared owners won a court case against their housing association, Notting Hill Genesis, who charged them for services they don't have access to. ❌ The housing association is now appealing the ruling. #SharedOwnership

📢 SHARED OWNERS Issues with resales? 👉 Write to the Ministry in charge of the shared ownership scheme. Use their online form ⤵️ www.gov.uk/guidance/con...

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🚨🚨 Today is your last chance to tell the Committee what you think about the #SharedOwnership scheme ⬇️⬇️⬇️

We're trapped in unaffordable unsellable homes. We're going under. You've done nothing to help so far. This isn't good enough.

They should buy back our homes.

✅ Another great question from Baroness Thornhill. 🏢 What are Ministers planning to do to prevent a two-tier market for shared ownership properties❓ 🔗 Minister's response in next post #SharedOwnership

📢 Shared owners Only 4️⃣ days left to submit your written evidence to the Select Committee inquiry. ❗Deadline: 29 August 🔗 committees.parliament.uk/call-for-evi... Focus on this question. Tell MPs about your experience as a shared owner and what needs to change ⬇️ #SharedOwnership

🔴 BUYBACKS More support from the House of Lords ✅ Baroness Thornhill asked the Government to use some of their new 'Social and Affordable Homes Programme' budget to fund buybacks. #SharedOwnership #HousingCrisis Link to Minister's response in next post.

"Shared ownership seemed like a godsend for a single woman like me. I was wrong," writes Melanie Marshall Read more: trib.al/X7FoSXr

🖋️ "I was a war reporter. But shared ownership put me in therapy." "Most of my anxiety comes not from spending decades working in war and disaster zones as a journalist, but from my shared ownership flat." #SharedOwnership #UKhousing inews.co.uk/opinion/war-...

🗓️ When was the last time you wrote to your MP about your concerns as a shared owner? 👉 Ask your MP to contact the Minister on your behalf. You can use this online tool. ⤵️ #SharedOwnership writetothem.com

📢 Select Committee INQUIRY 🗓️ Deadline 29 August 👉 Does #SharedOwnership provide a 'genuinely affordable' route to home ownership? 👉 How could the scheme be improved? 📱 Have your say 🔗 More info: committees.parliament.uk/call-for-evi...

We can't staircase out of shared ownership, can't add partners as property owners, can't relocate for career opportunities. Family planning remains on indefinite hold - six years of major life decisions delayed because we can't access our own equity.

📺🎙️ What #SharedOwnership story do you want BBC News to cover? Let them know ⤵️ www.bbc.co.uk/send/u187894...

📢 SHARED OWNERS Issues with RICS valuations? 👉 Write to the Ministry in charge of the shared ownership scheme. Use their online form ⤵️ www.gov.uk/guidance/con...

📢 SHARED OWNERS Issues with resales? 👉 Write to the Ministry in charge of the shared ownership scheme. Use their online form ⤵️ www.gov.uk/guidance/con...

📢 SHARED OWNERS 🤔 Are you concerned about staircasing, lease extensions, subletting, valuations, or anything else? 👉 Write to the Ministry in charge of the shared ownership scheme. Use their online form ⤵️ www.gov.uk/guidance/con...

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🔴 BUYBACKS 🖋️ @lkpleasehold.bsky.social "given the complexity and unbalanced nature of shared ownership (...) an obligatory buy-back scheme should be imposed on all shared ownership providers" We agree. Funding SO buybacks should be a govt priority. www.leaseholdknowledge.com/leaseholders...

🔎 "The Government is aware that some people who have entered shared ownership have faced significant challenges with their properties and there is ongoing consideration of what more can be done to improve the experience of shared owners" #UKhousing questions-statements.parliament.uk/written-ques...

📢 NEW INQUIRY The House of Commons Housing, Communities and Local Government Committee has just launched a new inquiry. MPs ask whether shared ownership provides a genuinely affordable route to home ownership. 🗓️ Deadline: 29 August 👇 #SharedOwnership committees.parliament.uk/committee/17...