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SHAC is a campaign group linking tenants, renters, shared owners, and leaseholders living in homes owned by housing association, council, and private landlords.
Together we campaign to improve people’s housing conditions and to reduce the commercialisation of public housing.
We aim for:
- Genuine tenant and resident democracy.
- Improved access to the justice system for tenants and residents with housing issues.
- Improved repairs and maintenance services and an end to mouldy homes.
- A freeze on unfair rents and uncapped service charges and an end to service charge abuse.
- Better health and safety provisions.
- Improved handling of anti-social behaviour (ASB).
- The dismantling of the Golden Web that protects housing associations from being held to account.
- An end to the silencing and censorship of tenants and residents and the groups which represent them.
We are aligned to the Unite Housing Workers Branch which primarily represents staff working in housing associations.
Together we:
- Bring tenants and residents together and support them to challenge their landlords and hold them to account.
- Agitate in the press and on social media, and work with the trade union and housing movements to get our messages across.
- Highlight and expose the systemic failings of the current social housing model.
Join us and help build tenant and resident unity.
SHAC Action Point: Petitions and Survey
We want the law changed so that disputed service charges can be paid to the courts and only passed onto landlords if they can prove the legitimacy of the bills. Otherwise, the money is returned to the tenant or resident.
We are conducting a survey to capture data on how rising rents negate wage rises, and how bad housing conditions lead to illness and injury, which in turn leads to workplace absence, sometimes resulting in unemployment.
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