'The building safety crisis has trapped 700,000 people in dangerous homes and left almost three million owners with flats they cannot sell. Almost all are properties built or refurbished since 2000'

🚨Over 15,000 made homeless.

Martina Lees reports 👇
thetimes.co.uk/article/forced…

Scandal of the cladding victims left homeless, a much-needed and ever-meticulous update from ⁦Martina Lees⁩

thetimes.co.uk/article/34c5aa…

Well this took me a few months to investigate: since Grenfell, 15,210 residents have been forced to move out of dangerous flats across Britain, analysis of 7 years’ local media reports found thetimes.co.uk/article/forced…

'This government has failed on housing so comprehensively that it's difficult to know where to start.'

Labour's Barry Gardiner slams Tories' Michael Gove for backing investors and failing homeowners on leasehold.

Jenny Jones, 'We have torrents of sewage pouring into our rivers, onto our coastline, into our chalk streams. But instead of stopping it, this proposal aims to increase it' Jenny Jones

'And instead of giving Ofwat tougher powers to regulate the water industry.. Ofwat are…

lol house prices hey…

#HousingCrisis
#BuildingSafetyCrisis
#EndOurCladdingScandal

All those saying we can leave the ECHR & create our own Bill of Rights - please remember that pre-supposes you can trust the Government with your human rights in the first place. During the past eighteen months we’ve had an anti strike law - designed to rob millions of workers of…

Dear Simon Jupp MP,

How is it that the URLs for Lib Dem candidate richardfoord.uk, richardfoord.co.uk and richardfoord.com all link directly to your website?

Not a good look

Are you, your staff or anyone you know responsible for this?

Helpful to know.

If you want to know how power works in the UK contrast the press interest in (1) the £1,500 of capital gains tax Angela Rayner is said to have evaded with (2) the tens of millions Lord Ashcroft denies having evaded. 🧵

Lewis bought his flat from a shared-ownership scheme run by a housing association - but rising service charges mean he's now trapped in a home he cannot afford.

#london

The Post Office's top priority is covering-up its mistakes. Thread on what happened when we identified that the Post Office's compensation payments to thousands of postmasters were a tax disaster.

‘The New York Times analysed 1,200 contracts worth nearly $22bn and found that roughly half went to companies run by friends and associates of Conservative party politicians, or with no experience in that area.’ 1/n theguardian.com/commentisfree/…

NLC - LEASEHOLD CAMPAIGNER - #reLEASE us Michael Gove Leasehold Knowledge The Times and The Sunday Times What absolute b*llocks. We have evidence that shows new build prices on the same estates were not lower for leasehold properties than freehold properties. CMA proved this too.

As the hypocritical Daily Mail prints their 1,126th 😉front page about Angela Rayner in a week!
While employing Dorries & Boris Johnson & having their shares fundamentally owned offshore

Here's Led @bydonkeys analysis of Esther McVey's use of taxpayers' money & her hypocrisy

Nigel Burton BBC News (UK) Having worked for a developer writing service charges I was always made to make the £/sqft £2. Even when I could prove it should be £3 +

Nearly Legal End Our Cladding Scandal Also said that of course they cannot say to them by how much the SCs will increase.

Really? Couldn’t they inform at least of average? But I guess saying ‘our service charges in new builds tend to increase by average 200% in 5 years’ would not produce sales!

The bit I’ve been banging on about for about a decade hits hard. Shared owners might only have 25% of the equity in the property, but they pay 100% of the service charges, as well as rent on the other 75%. They are paying to maintain the HA’s equity value. theguardian.com/society/2024/m…

It is time to understand that government borrowing for social housing is wholly different from borrowing for tax cuts, energy bill relief or banking sector bailouts. If rigid fiscal rules preclude this sort of investment, the rules should change

theguardian.com/commentisfree/…

So many Leaseholders and being shafted. We live in a time where Freeholders say jump and at the mercy of them, Leaseholders are expected to respond ‘how high’.

Freeholders use forfeiture as a weapon similarly to how section 21 is used in the private sector, and think it’s…

🥊BRILLIANT PACKAGE BY Tarah Welsh BBC London TONIGHT🥊

Service charge strikes are a symptom of a broken market. If freeholders and building-landlords weren’t rent-seekers, people wouldn’t do it.

Let leaseholders take control of their service providers and service charges!