It's necessary. It's happening. Ben Jenkins & Housing Sector gave us the chance to explain plans for a genuinely democratic National Tenants' and Residents' Union. Conference: 11-4 - 11th October Indian YMCA, 41 Fitzroy Square, London W1T 6AG - and online. www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZROt...

SHAC Article: Plus Dane Charging Thousands for Services We Never See shaction.org/2025/09/21/p... 📣 Plus Dane is financially exploiting tenants and residents. ✊ SHAC is supporting their fight back.

Thx @bbclondon.bsky.social for inviting SHAC to comment on a flawed @homebuildersfed.bsky.social report that urges cutting social housing targets. Actually, social housing should be funded through full council grant - it's more effective & pays for itself. www.youtube.com/watch?v=SYM-...

SHAC Article - A Million Empty Homes and a Housing Shortage shaction.org/2025/09/09/a... Underscoring the myth of a housing shortage. The real issue is a lack of genuinely affordable housing and the cause is a series of political decisions, all of which can be reversed. Join us to get better.

SHAC and Members in the Press Thx @privateeyenews.bsky.social for continuing to expose service charge abuse: it carries on, even after death and even as landlords admit overcharging. Welcome to the wild, wild west of unregulated housing association finances. SHAC campaigns to end this.

Thanks @rachaelmaskell.bsky.social and all others who signed our open letter to Keir Starmer, Angela Rayner & @matthewpennycookmp.bsky.social. Essential to create a faster, fairer system to resolve service charge disputes. More at petition.parliament.uk/petitions/73...

Join us at 6.30pm on Thursday 11th September in discussion with Adam Gabsi of Inclusion London to discuss discrimination in the housing sector against disabled people, disability benefit cuts, and working together for safe, accessible housing. Online by Zoom: tinyurl.com/DisVizH

Thanks to BBC Sussex for inviting SHAC to comment on the Regulator of Social Housing finding Arun District Council guilty of neglecting the homes and neighbourhoods under its control - and doing so over a period of decades. www.youtube.com/watch?v=s7Ib...

Register now - spaces are limited! The national tenants and residents union conference, 11am-4pm on Sat 11th Oct. Venue: the Indian YMCA, 41 Fitzroy Square, London W1T 6AQ, with excellent tube / bus links. Zoom attendance also available. tinyurl.com/STRUC25

Surely a no-brainer for this government which claims to want to do more to protect tenants and residents from unscrupulous landlords? Petition here petition.parliament.uk/petitions/73...

Housing Sector Podcast #49 Fire Safety in High-Rise Homes: Compliance Fact or Compliance Theatre? Birmingham resident & H&S professional Mel Little exposes: – Failed fire doors – Blocked fire access – Missing safety case files youtu.be/UtwM07AbJv8

Dean Kennedy - The Resident Who Sent Bailiffs into L&Q's Head Office It started with a complaint about ASB and ended up with the resident sending court bailiffs to one of the largest housing associations in England (L&Q), to recover the compo he was awarded. www.youtube.com/watch?v=mlVY...

SHAC Article - When it comes to service charges, tenants who pay additional charges are the forgotten victims - but they are victims. Michael explains. shaction.org/2025/08/12/i...

George writes about Abbeyfield England giving the appearance of quality controlling Abbeyfield alsmshouses, but without actually delivering accountability. shaction.org/2025/08/08/t...

Celebrating the first 1,000 signatures on our newly launched Parliamentary Petition and Ben Jenkins, SHAC member and Housing Sector podcaster, invites you to imagine this 👇👇👇 #EndServiceChargeAbuse www.youtube.com/watch?v=tAPa...

SHAC in the Press - With thanks to Private Eye for including SHAC comment on Anchor Hanover housing association. The organisation commercialised heavily after it merged, and then went into a governance tailspin. This is gambling with people's lives and not how we solve the housing crisis.

SHAC Article - Jean's Story: Life and Death with Shared Ownership Jean's personal story of injustice, discrimination against leaseholders, and a broken housing system told through the eyes of her daughter Gill. shaction.org/2025/07/30/j...

Brilliant work by English for Action - a genuine empowerment of their students. What an achievement!

Following months of grassroots organising, ESOL learners from our Tower Hamlets Housing Action Group held Clarion Housing to account over disrepair. A big win thanks to support from @shacaction.bsky.social and ongoing solidarity from @umakumaran.bsky.social 💥📣 #HousingJustice #EFAChange #ESOL

▶️ Signing is not enough! 🚩 We need all to share and badger others to sign too! 🔥 #EndServiceChargeAbuse petition.parliament.uk/petitions/73...

SHAC Article - Failure of antisocial behaviour (ASB) handling is getting worse, not better. The evidence is mounting up and our members have had enough. shaction.org/2025/07/16/s...

Housing Crisis in the Workplace - our interim findings provide powerful evidence of the disruption caused by bad housing and failed policy is clear.

Access Denied: SHAC Responds. The Ombudsman's report includes recommendations and ‘key learning’ for councils, but these include nothing they have not heard before. We need a report that proposes meaningful accountability for councils. shaction.org/2025/07/10/a...

SHAC Article - A 20-20 Vision of How Social Housing Landlords Fleece Leaseholders Their experiences are widely recognisable. It's a scandal of epic proportions and we won't end the pressure on govt until we get justice! shaction.org/2025/07/02/a...

SHAC and Pitcairn House Members in the Press Peter Carlyon's excellent article in Dispatch on the Pitcairn House service charge strikers - unlike many articles on strikers, Carlyon presents the tactic as an empowerment. dispatch-media.com/the-revolt-o...

SHAC and English for Action: Empowering Community Housing Action Not your standard housing activists! shaction.org/2025/06/26/s...

SHAC and partner campaign groups protesting outside the Housing 2025 trade event in Manchester on Tuesday. The fight is on for the control of housing and to end the hyper-exploitation of tenants and residents.

📢📢Conference Announcement 📢📢 ✴️Forming a democratic National Tenants and Residents Union✴️ 📅 ... 11-4, Saturday 18 October 🏤 ... Central London & online (venue to be confirmed) Please register (free) so we can assess the size of venue needed: shaction.org/national-ten...

SHAC Article - Richard's hilarious account of the service charge racket @ Riverside Housing Group. It'll make you laugh. It'll make you cry. If you're affected, you will recognise the practices whichever landlord you're with. shaction.org/2025/06/16/t... Please like & share. #EndServiceChargeAbuse

Thanks @newjournal.bsky.social for covering our protest last week outside the Notting Hill Genesis office. We highlighted appalling mould & damp conditions in which baby Akram died. camdennewjournal.co.uk/article/moul... We stood in solidarity with the family & will continue to fight slum housing.

On Friday we stood in firm solidarity with the family of baby Akram Mohammed who died in a mould-ridden Notting Hill Genesis home. The family joined our protest and we all raised our voices on behalf of all those who are still living in substandard housing. shaction.org/photos-notti...

SHAC on Clarion in the News Raw sewage floods Clarion homes again. Bio hazards, broken lifts & the same tired excuses trotted out by Clarion. youtube.com/watch?v=1v7t... SHAC comments on deplorable lack of accountability so these cases arise time and again.

The third worst HA in the UK. Having huge problems controlling costs and shocking failures in duty of care, compliance, professionalism and upholding ethical standards

Please join our protest at 4pm, Friday 6th June, Notting Hill Genesis, Bruce Kenrick House, 2 Killick Street, London N1 9FL. SHAC and the Unite Housing Workers Branch will be protesting against NHG's widespread slum living and poor working conditions, highlighting the death of baby Akram Mohammed.

SHAC Article A single day in May has again thrown social housing into the spotlight for all the wrong reasons, with a damning report on rising disrepairs complaints and the death of a baby in a decaying home owned by a housing association. shaction.org/2025/05/30/t...

Amalgamations and take-overs have produced massive Social Housing companies that have lost touch with residents and now behave just like any other profit obsessed private landlord We need a return to properly funded Council owned housing @shacaction.bsky.social www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

This from @shacaction.bsky.social is spot on.

Appalling and entirely avoidable. Again. Shame on all landlords who fail to hold life precious. This housing system is failing and we need system change to put it right.

SHAC Article and Call to Action Government has responded to our Parliamentary petition on ending service charge abuse. Their statement offers words but no reassurance that Ministers will end the extortion racket. We react and make a call to action. Please help. shaction.org/2025/05/28/s...

Wealthy landowners fight to stop leasehold reform that has put £billions of unearned income in their pockets. shaction.org/2025/05/25/f... This legal judgement shows how access to justice is sharply tilted in favour of the landlowning class. But campaigners will not be silenced.

SHAC and Partners in the Press: We're fighting landlords intent on clinging onto the leasehold system, and who are cynically using human rights laws to do so. Stand with us to support the action led by Free Leaseholders. #endservicechargeabuse www.insidehousing.co.uk/news/exclusi...

Notting Hill Genesis chainsaw massacre. 1000 views on YouTube. 6500 views on NextDoor. www.youtube.com/shorts/wBoDy... Today, after decades of neglect, decades of management company BLR refusing to meet with their own residents, they will be having a Teams meeting. @shacaction.bsky.social

Thx Shay Kaur Grewal & BBC Radio for inviting SHAC to comment on the GLA's reduced affordable homes target from c24K to c18K. youtube.com/watch?v=qQ36... We discuss the ongoing failure of government's housing policy and the urgent need for a holistic, strategic plan to solve the housing crisis.

Are you working, or unable to work due to problems caused by your housing issues? If so, please take a moment to fill out our brief and completely anonymous housing survey. Thank you in advance! shaction.org/housing-in-t...

SHAC in the News Thanks @gabrieldmorris.bsky.social for inviting SHAC to comment. kentlive.news/news/kent-ne... An appalling situation to be in - a terrible worry for Nina. As we highlight, the system for allocating social housing is brutal & far removed from what it once represented.

SHAC Article In the absence of social landlord accountability through the authorities or politicians, tenants and residents inevitably turn to organised radical action. SHAC is on hand to support. #RentStrikes #ServiceChargeStrikes shaction.org/2025/05/09/t...

SHAC Article: Neither Shared Nor Ownership! Protesting the London Home Show Alison explains why SHAC members felt compelled to protest the London Home Show last weekend, and circulate accurate information about shared ownership to would-be buyers. shaction.org/2025/05/03/n...

A brilliant and powerful article by @andrewkersley.bsky.social & @londonermag.bsky.social exploring the history of Notting Hill Genesis and its metamorphosis from fighting slum landlordism into a slum landlord itself. www.the-londoner.co.uk/notting-hill...

Such a brilliant and inspiring meeting of tenants and residents from Peabody mostly across London. Re building communities whilst dealing with mould, £££££ charges and much more. Worth a watch and share. CapRentsNotBenefits

SHAC Film Inspiring campaigns organised by tenants & residents on Peabody’s Nags Head & Thamesmead estates. Kevin, Alastair, Jordi & Esther discuss working together to challenge Peabody and hold them to account. Nags Head campaigners are supported by MedAct. www.youtube.com/watch?v=LoGk...