Press Articles 2025

31 December – Property118

New tenants’ housing union set to challenge landlords and government

30 December – The Big Issue

Why we’re creating new housing union in 2026 to help renters, residents and leaseholders take on power

9 December – The Canary

Leaseholders win significant unfair service charges case

9 December – Labour Hub

London Leaseholders Win Significant Tribunal Case Against Lendlease Over Unfair Service Charges

3 December – The Observer

The tenants forced to pay for their richer neighbours’ gyms

28 November – BBC Radio Sussex – The Case for Council Housing

31 October – LBC Radio – Tom Swarbrick – Service Charges

31 October – The Telegraph

The residents charged £4,400 a year for leaf collection (with paywall) or download version

30 October – Morning Star

Labour told its ‘numbers game’ approach to housing targets is doomed to failure

27 October – LBC Radio – Iain Dale – Awaab’s Law

27 October – LBC Radio – James Hanson – Awaab’s Law

23 October – BBC Radio London – Housing Development Targets Revised Downwards

18 September – BBC Radio London – Housing Development

And in print:

18 September – BBC London

Change building rules to boost homes, report urges

5 September – Private Eye

Flats Broke

29 August – BBC Radio Sussex – Arun District Council disrepairs

29 July – Labour Hub

SHAC Launches Parliamentary Petition for New Scheme to Remove and Repay Inaccurate and Extortionate Service Charges

25 July – Private Eye

Anchor’s Way

24 June – Dispatch

The revolt of Hackney’s tower blocks

13 June – Camden New Journal

Mould protest after baby’s death

6 June – Evening Standard

Protests after death of baby boy who lived in ‘mouldy and damp’ north London flat

6 June – BBC London

Baby’s death sparks protest against housing group

4 June – BBC Radio Sussex – Clarion Disrepairs

30 May – Labour Hub

A Damning Report – and Another Death

22 May – Inside Housing

Exclusive: leaseholders and SHAC join forces to oppose freeholders’ High Court challenge

15 May – Labour Hub

Eight years of failure by Notting Hill Genesis – and growing support for service charge strikes elsewhere

14 May – BBC Radio London – Greater London Authority Affordable Homes Programme Cut

8 May – Kent Live

Kent grandmother ‘will be homeless in a hospital bed’ if council can’t find family a new home

28 April – Housing Sector Podcast – State of the Union with Suz Muna

26 April – The Londoner

How a charity founded to solve the housing crisis became one of London’s worst landlords

17 April – BBC London

‘We’ve been paying for a lift that does not exist’

BBC London News broadcast:

BBC London Radio broadcast:

15 April – Inside Housing

London council residents to go on service charge strike

14 April – Labour Hub

“Plague of mould and damp” at Peabody’s east London Nags Head estate, says new report

26 March – BBC Radio 4 You & Yours – Service Charge Abuse

20 March – Housing Today

Are housing associations really overcharging residents?

20 March – BBC Morning Live – Service Charge Abuse

12 March – Mail Online

We live in so-called affordable housing but we are being charged thousands of pounds a year in service charges

9 March – The Observer

UK housing associations accused of mis-selling ‘affordable’ homes as service charges soar by up to 400%

6 March – Landlord Today

MPs accuse landlords of overcharging service charges

5 March – RightsNet

Campaign group submits dossier to the NAO on service charge abuses ahead of possible JR

5 March – Labour Hub

26 MPs Urge National Audit Office to Investigate Service Charge Payments to Landlords

5 March – Inside Housing

MPs call for spending watchdog to investigate alleged service charge abuse by landlords

3 March – Birmingham Live

UK households who pay service charge plan legal action against government

1 March – The Observer

Residents trapped with service charges of up to £8,000 a year threaten legal action against government

And SHAC members featured:

1 March – The Observer

‘There’s no way I can pay’: London residents despair of steep costs and forced use of ‘poor door’

28 February – Yorkshire Live

The 79 times Yorkshire councils failed to help tenants fix leaks, damp and mould in social homes

24 February – Inside Housing

More than two-thirds of tribunal cases reduced or removed service charges in 2024

6 February – The Big Issue

Social housing waiting lists to soar to two million people in 10 years, report finds

10 February – ITV – Royal Mint Court protest

24 January – BBC Radio Surrey

22 January – Okehampton Times

Record number of households on Torridge social housing waitlist

13 January – Housing Sector Podcast