SHAC: The Social Housing Action Campaign

A great read! Thank you @housingsector.bsky.social.

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YouTube video by Housing Sector Housing Sector Podcast Episode #54 - The Case for a National Tenants and Residents Union

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.

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Social Housing Action CampaignPlus Dane Charging Thousands for Services We Never See By Ella Austen The paperwork that ties me to Plus Dane Housing was written in 1989. I was a barely sentient one year old. My name isn’t on it. Plus Dane’s name isn’t on it. Yet somehow, this paperw…

SHAC Article: Plus Dane Charging Thousands for Services We Never See

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📣 Plus Dane is financially exploiting tenants and residents.

✊ SHAC is supporting their fight back.

YouTube video by The Social Housing Action Campaign SHAC on BBC Radio - London Housing Development

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.

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Social Housing Action CampaignA Million Empty Homes and a Housing Shortage By Arti Dillon My experience tells me that having people shipped off to expensive locations isn’t new. As a teenager, we were placed in a hotel room in central London because we couldn’…

SHAC Article - A Million Empty Homes and a Housing Shortage

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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...

Done! Thank you Paula 🙂

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

YouTube video by The Social Housing Action Campaign SHAC on BBC Radio Sussex - Arun Council Disrepairs

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.

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Conference to Discuss Forming a National Tenants and Residents Union SHAC is working towards a new, national, democratic tenants’ and residents’ union. In the autumn, we will bring together all interested parties and establish a working group to get the …

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.

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Surely a no-brainer for this government which claims to want to do more to protect tenants and residents from unscrupulous landlords? Petition here
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YouTube video by Housing Sector Housing Sector Podcast #49 Fire Safety in High-Rise Homes: Compliance Fact or Compliance Theatre?

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

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YouTube video by The Social Housing Action Campaign SHAC Film: The Resident Who Sent Bailiffs into L&Q's Head Office

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.

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Social Housing Action CampaignInvisible Tenants, Forgotten Victims By Michael Savell, SHAC Committee Member It appears that anyone who rents a flat, or was unfortunate enough to have bought a share of a flat through shared ownership, has the same issues. High and …

SHAC Article - When it comes to service charges, tenants who pay additional charges are the forgotten victims - but they are victims. Michael explains.

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Social Housing Action CampaignThe Great Abbeyfield Illusion By George Maurice I am a resident of Abbeyfield Chester, a retirement scheme that claims its residents enjoy supported housing with “high standards of accommodation, companionship and a support ser…

George writes about Abbeyfield England giving the appearance of quality controlling Abbeyfield alsmshouses, but without actually delivering accountability.

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YouTube video by The Social Housing Action Campaign Why We Need an Independent Body to Oversee Service Charges

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

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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.

Social Housing Action CampaignJean’s Story: Life and Death with Shared Ownership A story of injustice, discrimination against leaseholders, and a broken housing system By Gill Perceval 2008 and Mum was living in a house in Langley. She was active, sociable and hands-on in helpi…

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.

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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

Petition: Create and fund third party regulator scheme for service charge disputes Create a scheme where disputed service charges are payable to courts or similar body and only passed to landlords if they can prove the charge's legitimacy. Otherwise, the money returns to the tenant/...

▶️ Signing is not enough!

🚩 We need all to share and badger others to sign too!

🔥 #EndServiceChargeAbuse

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Social Housing Action CampaignSocial Housing Antisocial Behaviour Crisis Housing Associations Failing Tenants Despite Ombudsman Rulings By Dean Kennedy Despite falling national statistics in police-reported anti-social behaviour (ASB), social housing tenants continue to…

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

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Housing in the Workplace Survey Thank you for visiting our survey on the impact of housing problems in the workplace. We aim to measure the impact of the housing crisis. This will help our general campaigning, as well as our work…

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

Social Housing Action CampaignAccess Denied – SHAC Responds SHAC’S Response to the Local Government & Social Care Ombudsman Housing Report for Disabled People In June 2025, the Local Government and Social Care Ombudsman published a report aimed at reduc…

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.

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Social Housing Action CampaignA 20-20 Vision of How Social Housing Landlords Fleece Leaseholders By a Twenty-Twenty Resident Twenty-Twenty House A is an attractive, modern apartment block in the trendy Mabgate area of Leeds. Twenty-Twenty A houses 30 apartments, most of which are occupied by h…

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!

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The revolt of Hackney's tower blocks Unsafe flats • A stunning cover-up • The revolution begins

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.

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Social Housing Action CampaignSHAC and English for Action: Empowering Community Housing Action Just one year ago, a community of women from mainly Bengali migrant and refugee backgrounds living in the east end of London would probably not have described themselves as grass-roots housing acti…

SHAC and English for Action: Empowering Community Housing Action

Not your standard housing activists!

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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 to Discuss Forming a National Tenants and Residents Union SHAC is working towards a new, national, democratic tenants’ and residents’ union. In the autumn, we will bring together all interested parties and establish a working group to get the …

📢📢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:
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