Press Articles 2024

27 December – Labour Hub

Housing Association Residents vs The Chinese Embassy

22 December – Sky News – Disrepairs

25 November – BBC News

How service charges in flats spiralled out of control

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

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

05 September – Times Radio

SHAC on Times Radio – After Grenfell

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

Public resistance to a bullying landlord

18 August – City Rat

The watchdog won’t bark

30 July – Times Radio – New government housing policy

SHAC Interviewed on Times Radio

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)

10 May – Housing Today

G15 chair writes to Gove to rebut claims of ‘widespread abuse of service charges’ by social landlords in London

2 May – Housing Digital

Where will people live when there’s no more social housing?

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’

23 March – iNews

‘Alarm bells’ at housing crisis agency Homes England where staff meeting cost £400k

3 April – The Guardian Letters

Tenants are trapped in a collapsing housing system

31 March – The Observer

Outrage as residents in England’s ‘affordable’ housing forced to pay thousands of pounds extra in service charge

20 March – BBC London News

The Londoners who are on service charge ‘strike’

17 March – iNews

Housing crisis quango Homes England is ‘gravy train’ dogged by secrecy, insiders claim

14 March – BBC London News

In print: ‘We can’t sell our flat and can’t afford to live in it’

12 March – Inside Housing

Housing association rent arrears rise 8.4% to record high of nearly £800m

9 March – LBC Radio – Chancellor Cuts £200 million from council housing budgets

LBC Twitter clip

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

13 February – LBC News

Interview with SHAC – Housing Crisis and Government Policies

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

Resident group claims announcement of 7.7% social rent increase for 2024-25 was ‘quietest in history’