Category: Optivo

HA Service Charges, Housing Law, Optivo, Service charge fraud, Tenant & Resident Democracy, Waive The Rents

Boris – If You Want to reduce Housing Benefits, Cap Rents, Build Council Homes, and End the Service Charge Scandal!

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One of the many things wrong with Prime Minister Boris Johnson's speech on housing was his analysis of the Universal Credit housing benefit element, and how much of this is being 'wasted'. SHAC agrees with the view that an unreasonable amount of taxpayer's money is being poorly used through housing benefit payments, but we strongly… Continue reading Boris – If You Want to reduce Housing Benefits, Cap Rents, Build Council Homes, and End the Service Charge Scandal!

Charter, Complaints Procedures, Electricity Charges, Gas, Gas Charges, HA Service Charges, Housing Law, Optivo, Service charge fraud, Service Charges, Tenant & Resident Democracy

Optivo on Trial Over Service Charges

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By guest writer, Samuel Kitney* The dispute with Viridian Housing, my original landlord, started in 2015 when I noticed that the service charge statement included a charge for gas that we do not have. The only gas in the building is used in the plant room to run the communal heating system and the commercial… Continue reading Optivo on Trial Over Service Charges

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SHAC Protestors Tell Gove: “Cut Rents & End Rip-Off Service Charges”

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Representatives from SHAC together with housing campaign groups, trade unionists, and activists involved in local action assembled in central London on the 9th April. They sent a message to Michael Gove, Secretary of State for Levelling Up, that he needs to instruct landlords to cut their rents and end rip-off service charging. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8K3J2t6FADQ Watch our… Continue reading SHAC Protestors Tell Gove: “Cut Rents & End Rip-Off Service Charges”

Commercialisation, HA Service Charges, Housing, Housing Law, L&Q, London & Quadrant, MTVHA, NHG, Notting Hill, Notting Hill Genesis, Optivo, Peabody Trust, Service charge fraud, Service Charges, Water charges

Social Landlords’ Illegal Water Charges

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Just when you believe you have mapped all the different ways in which social housing tenants and residents are fleeced, along comes news of yet another scandal. SHAC has interviewed members of a London campaign whose activists have won thousands of pounds in refunds for water charges illegally levied by councils and housing associations. But… Continue reading Social Landlords’ Illegal Water Charges

Complaints Procedures, Damp and mould, Genesis, Health and Safety, MTVHA, Notting Hill, Notting Hill Genesis, Optivo, Service Cuts, Tenant & Resident Democracy, Waive The Rents

Lambeth Council Sues HA Landlords

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Poor repairs are regularly highlighted to SHAC, with tenants and residents feeling helpless when they try to get their housing association landlords to address them. This week, a group of tenants have successfully compelled their local council, the London Borough of Lambeth, to take three housing associations to court for the condition of their properties.… Continue reading Lambeth Council Sues HA Landlords