SHAC in the Press 2024

27 December – Labour Hub

22 December – Sky News – Disrepairs

25 November – BBC News

25 November – Labour Hub
If Keir Starmer wants to cut the benefits bill, he could crack down on service charge abuse

22 November – BBC Radio 5 Live – Service Charge Abuse

18 November – Sky News – Disrepairs

15 November – Hackney Citizen
‘Deeply worrying’: Campaigners blame ‘feeble’ repairs system for Hackney woman’s death

10 November – St Helens Star
Dozens of private social homes not up to scratch in St Helens

04 November – Doncaster Free Press
Dozens of private social homes not up to scratch in Doncaster

28 October – LBC Radio – ‘There’s water running down the walls’: Social housing complaints soar by 162% as council repairs costs quadruple.

16 October – The Big Issue
Benefits bill pushes government spending on housing to highest level since records began

6 October – The Guardian
‘It’s decimated’: Rayner faces a battle to boost Britain’s social housing

30 September – The Independent
Hundreds of millions owed in rental debts to councils and arrears on the rise, new data shows

29 September – iNews
Rent rise fears as builders plan to run thousands of affordable homes for profit

22 September – The Guardian
‘Affordable’ shared-ownership homes cost residents more than half their wages

16 September – Housing Sector Podcast – Jacqueline Parkes, SHAC Disability Visibility & ASB Lead speaks to Ben Jenkins, Housing Sector, about antisocial behaviour

06 September – Barrons Online & AFP (France)
UK Fire Safety Fears Persist Seven Years After Deadly Grenfell Inferno


03 September – Hyphen
Three quarters of social housing blocks with unsafe cladding yet to be fixed

30 August – Labour Hub
SHAC slams appalling Tenant Satisfaction scores for Housing Associations

29 August – BBC South – Shocking case of antisocial behaviour allowed to go unchecked by Accent Housing

22 August – The Big Issue
Labour accused of ‘aligning with landlords’ and ‘heaping misery on families’ over social rent hike

20 August – Labour Hub

18 August – City Rat


25 July – Open Democracy
King Charles’ property empire earns £334,000 from housing benefit

18 July – Housing Quality Network Magazine
Online: At Your Service? (page 16)
Electronic copy: At Your Service? (page 16)


2 May – Housing Digital

30 April – Housing Sector Podcast
From Ponzi Schemes to Strikes – Is This Really The Current State of Social Housing?

16 April – Your Money
Petition against ‘scandal’ of service charges hits 10k signatures

23 March – The Big Issue
UK housing crisis is so bad that some people waiting 55 years for a social home: ‘We need change’


3 April – The Guardian Letters


20 March – BBC London News



12 March – Inside Housing
Housing association rent arrears rise 8.4% to record high of nearly £800m


19 February – BBC London – Peabody Tenants – Key Workers’ Rent Crisis in London

19 February – BBC London
Key workers fear ‘social cleansing’ from London homes with rent rise

13 February – BBC Radio Sussex – A Grandmother’s Struggle Against Damp and Mould


30 January – LBC News – Government Housing Policy Consultation

30 January – Open Democracy
UK housing minister makes false claim about ‘increase’ in social homes

22 January – The Guardian
Housing ombudsman in England calls to re-establish link between housing and health

8 January – Inside Housing
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