👀👀 So... Steve Reed MP, the new Secretary of State for Housing is doing a Reddit AMA tomorrow. Time to ask questions about the building safety crisis, even if that's not what he wants to talk about. www.reddit.com/r/ukpolitics...

🔴 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...

''Flats often come with some off putting factors. (...) This is particularly the case due to cladding issues" "Service charges are also reaching terrifying levels in some apartment blocks across major cities." #BuildingSafetyCrisis www.thisismoney.co.uk/money/mortga...

Nothing has changed since Grenfell. Builders are still cutting corners. Don't buy a newbuild.

🆕 The House of Commons library has published a briefing on cladding remediation on blocks of flats under 11 metres. It includes information on what leaseholders can do if they have concerns. 🔗 commonslibrary.parliament.uk/remediating-...

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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...

99 months since we lost 72 loved ones in the Grenfell fire. Still no justice. As the Government begins to demolish the Tower, please keep Grenfell in your hearts. We will never forget — and we will not stop until justice is done.

❗Residents in a 35-storey building told "they have six months to get out of their homes because of “additional issues” that have been discovered relating to fire safety in the block." "The building was only completed in 2022." #BuildingSafetyCrisis insidecroydon.com/2025/09/12/t...

❌ Unfortunately, the Minister REJECTED an amendment to protect shared owners who are accidental landlords. 👉 We've repeatedly warned the Government: some shared owners will lose their home as a result. #RentersRightsBill hansard.parliament.uk/Commons/2025...

🗨️ @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

🔴 RESHUFFLE Our statement 👇 #BuildingSafetyCrisis #EndOurCladdingScandal

Labour's second (junior) Minister for Building Safety, @alexjjnorris.bsky.social, has been reshuffled. The politics continues. The lives of ordinary people remain an afterthought.

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⚖️ 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

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Ministers know there is a two-tier market for shared ownership properties. But are they doing enough to help shared owners❓ [Spoiler: NO] ⬇️ questions-statements.parliament.uk/written-ques...

✅ 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

They should buy back our homes.

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

"The block is surrounded by scaffolding because of cladding remediation work. (...) it's a problem to open the windows" 🗨️ "The summers are going to get longer and hotter. Families can't live the way we're living." www.bbc.com/news/article...

👀 L&Q was given a C2 grading for consumer standard from the social housing 'regulator' who seems happy with, ahem, assurances from L&Q that all is fine. The process isn't particularly robust and C1 is the bare minimum housing associations should deliver. Hmm... www.gov.uk/government/p...

📢 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

🗓️ 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

Are ministers considering funding buybacks of shared owners' unmortgageable flats? See their response to Baroness Thornhill's question. ⤵️ #SharedOwnership questions-statements.parliament.uk/written-ques...

🔴 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

My advice is run for the hills.

🖋️ "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-...

📢 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...

Planning to respond to the Govt consultation on leasehold reform. Disappointing that the document doesn't mention shared owners at all. There's a section on tenants. Why is #sharedownership always overlooked? www.gov.uk/government/c...

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

8 years after the Grenfell tragedy, victims continue to pay for the building safety crisis @alexjjnorris.bsky.social 👇

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.

One neighbour received a terminal cancer diagnosis and wanted to return home to family. They had to sell at a massive loss because the property was unsellable at market value. This is the human cost of being trapped by the supposedly "resolved" crisis.

This. Don't touch #sharedownership kids or you'll end up being a prisoner.

Our neighbours had their building measured 4 times to find out whether it was over or under 18m - back when that was the criterion to access the Building Safety Fund. 4 surveyors. 4 different heights. 2 above 18m, 2 under. The jokes write themselves.

📢 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...

I spoke with neighbours who are L&Q tenants on a @mayoroflondon.bsky.social scheme called 'intermediate rent'. I found out that L&Q has *never* serviced their hot water cylinder or mechanical extract ventilation system. Why are these organisations trusted to manage homes? #UKhousing

🗨️ " I can't afford to live here and I can't sell" ❗ Some lenders are still not willing to offer mortgages to buyers, even where a remediation plan is in place. ❗ @alexjjnorris.bsky.social what are you going to do to fix this crisis? www.bbc.com/news/article...

"The flat market has been stagnant over the past ten years, driven largely by the cladding scandal that followed the Grenfell Tower fire in June 2017 (...). Help to Buy flats have fared particularly badly." www.thetimes.com/business-mon...

❌ "Much of the money spent came from loans from the taxpayer to the housebuilding industry which were meant to be repaid rapidly, but it has emerged today that Rayner’s department is close to permitting Avant to postpone repayments." www.thetimes.com/business-mon...

This Government has postponed the Building Safety Levy for a year. Now they are bailing out developers who have been dragging their feet on building safety remediation. I guess this is what they mean when they say 'we are backing the builders'.

📢 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...

"The increased provision comes after a fresh wave of intrusive surveys uncovered widespread issues with cavity barriers hidden behind brickwork and render. The full scale of the problems had not been picked up in earlier surface-level checks." www.constructionenquirer.com/2025/07/30/e...

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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...

New Providence Wharf is a luxury block in Canary Wharf with a gym, pool and valets. It has also set on fire three times in the last four years. I found out what's been going on for @londonermag.bsky.social www.the-londoner.co.uk/new-providen...