| In this edition: – Article: The Housing Mafia’s Service Charge Racket – NTRU Conference Registration Open – Campaign Update Meeting This Week – Survey Reminder – Interview Call Out – Protests & Member Action |
 Read Here Article: The Housing Mafia’s Service Charge Racket Richard’s satirical account of the service charge racket at Riverside will make you laugh and probably cry too. If you are affected, you will recognise the practices even if you’re with a different landlord. As Richard says: “At least the Mafia didn’t pretend to be saints.” Please like and share: Bluesky ~ Twitter ~ Facebook ~ Instagram |
 Forming a National Tenants & Residents Union: Conference Registration is now Open Please register so that we can assess the venue size needed. Whatever aspect of the housing crisis is affecting you, please join us to discuss forming a national, democratic body that will harness the might of the trade unions to genuinely empower tenants and residents. 11am – 4pm, Saturday 18th October London (venue to be confirmed) Online option available Please like and share: Bluesky ~ Twitter ~ Facebook ~ Instagram |
 Reminder: SHAC Action Update Meeting Our next monthly SHAC meeting is on Thursday. Please join us. 6.30pm, Thursday 26 June 2025 Zoom link ~ ID: 823 4952 0596 ~ Passcode: 656982 Add to calendar |
 Survey: First Cut Deadline Approaches We will shortly do the first analysis of responses to our survey measuring the impact of the housing crisis in the workplace. The survey is brief and completely confidential. The data is needed to show and convince the trade unions that housing is a workplace issue too, to validate their support in the formation of a national tenants and residents union. If you haven’t already done so, please fill out the survey here. |
 Interview Call Out: New Providence Wharf Andrew Kersley is an investigative reporter from The Londoner. He would like to speak to tenants and residents who live in any of the buildings of the New Providence Wharf development in Poplar, London about issues the blocks have faced with fire safety, cladding, repeated fires and more. Andrew can be contacted on andrew@the-londoner.co.uk. Closing date: 27th June 2025 |
 Action to Stop Housing Demolition Campaigners are calling on national and local government to immediately suspend all housing demolition schemes, warning that flawed consultations and profit-driven regeneration schemes are destroying communities, displacing families, and deepening the housing crisis. They have launched a petition highlighting how demolition projects routinely force residents into unaffordable and insecure housing, disproportionately impact ethnic minority communities, and worsen both the housing crisis and the climate crisis. They are demanding a fair consultation and the final say for tenants and residents affected. Sign here. |
| Dates For Your Diary |
 24 June: Protest Housing 2025 Towards the end of June, housing executives will gather to present the world with their carefully constructed and entirely false showcase to boast about how ‘well’ they are delivering public housing. As they arrive, SHAC and a host of campaign partners under the banner of the Homes for Us coalition will be protesting outside. Please join us: 10am – 12 noon, Tuesday 24th June, Manchester Central Convention Complex, Manchester M2 3GX |
| SHAC Action Update Meeting Our next monthly SHAC meeting will hear updates on all our campaigns and is open to all members. It is an opportunity for you to share any campaigns or actions you are organising to challenge bad practice by your landlord. Please join us. 6.30pm, Thursday 26 June 2025 Zoom link ~ ID: 823 4952 0596 ~ Passcode: 656982 Add to calendar The times and dates for all 2025 monthly meetings are all available on our Events page. |
 5th July: Peabody Tenant and Resident protest Tenants and residents of Peabody will be holding a protest against the increasing commercialisation of the landlord, and its fading social purpose. 11am – 12 noon, Saturday 5th July1 Overton Road, London SE2 9SH (map) Followed by a barbeque at The Church of the Cross, Lensbury Way, London SE2 9UE (map) All welcome! |
| Join our themed and landlord WhatsApp groups SHAC Campaigns Tribunals Support | SHAC Leaseholders & Shared Owners | Housing Ombudsman | Payment Strike Clarion | Hyde | MTVHA | Notting Hill Genesis | Riverside / One Housing | L&Q Southern | Peabody | Guinness | Home Group | THCH | A2 Dominion | SNG | Council Housing Tenants & Residents |
 Nextdoor Network – Recruit to SHAC Join Nextdoor Posting a message on the Nextdoor app is one great way to encourage tenants and residents from your landlord (or other housing associations) to join SHAC and build critical strength. It will help to raise awareness of SHAC’s work and to encourage more recruits to lobby the Government and get our voices heard. Nextdoor is a Facebook-style social networking site that links people in the same locality. You can find out more and get set up here. |