Here's another thing you need to know about the developer contract that Department for Levelling Up, Housing & Communities don't disclose.
It was written to specifically protect developers from paying for interim costs like waking watch, after lobbying from developers.
Why Michael Gove ?
#BuildingSafetyCrisis

Vicky Spratt I am a shared owner. The combined increase of my rent + service charge by 'social' landlord L&Q is 17.4%. No one seems to have a problem with that.

Department for Levelling Up, Housing & Communities Please can you also prevent them from operating in the public sector? Willmott Dixon haven’t signed but are working on schools and other publicly funded projects. They shouldn’t receive a penny of public money after the disgraceful trail of flammable flats they’ve built.

Maybe Home BuildersFed HBF should consider the lives their members have turned upside down before whining to The Guardian about how 'furious' they are 👇

Maybe The Guardian should consider promoting the position of leaseholders ahead of developers who caused the #BuildingSafetyCrisis

Moving Home with Charlie And another thing many people aren't aware of: if you are forced to sell a SO flat to a cash buyer below valuation, you'll not only be in negative equity on your % share but you will *also* have to cover any loss on the housing association's % share.

Yes, really.

Stage 4 cancer & trapped in my flat! If treatment is successful, a 50% chance I live 5yrs, taking me into my 40th in 2025. The same year L&Q may start to remove cladding off my under 11 meter block. Possibly spending my last years with cladding anxiety Department for Levelling Up, Housing & Communities #cladding

No tomato shortage here - but I’m in Kherson, a frontline Ukrainian city that gets shelled by the Russians daily, not a British supermarket.

It's not just Managing Agents and Freeholders that are exploiting leaseholders. Housing Associations like Moat add a *further* 5% uplift on top of the insurance we pay (+ 5% uplift on top of the insurance commissions we already pay to Freeholder!

Michael Gove
Lisa Nandy

My situation update: I tried to staircase my property last year and estuary housing refused on the basis that the valuation was too low. As many of you know the HA have no legal write to object , it is both in the lease and a requirement of their funding that valuations even if

End Our Cladding Scandal BBC Morning Live Thanks for reporting on this BBC Morning Live and covering some of the issues. 'stuck' and 'limbo' don't fully reflect the unprecedented hell we are expected to live in for years on end and the spiraling costs we are trapped with. It is mental torture.

Retired Housing Association tenants face 700% rise in heating bills from £7.79 per week to £65 bit.ly/3RT7EeZ

Sovereign Housing SNG (formerly Sovereign Housing Association) increases retirees heating charges by more than 700%. I’d say a new low, but as seen many times before, there are is no low housing associations would not steep to.

“There was no warning – the bill was just popped through our doors”

Why is GLA not monitoring distressed sales or staircasing relating to #SharedOwnership ?

Is it because they know how horrific the data will be?

Mayor of London
Tom Copley
Labour Housing Group

A survey of more than 1,000 leaseholders found that 94% of leasehold homeowners regret buying a leasehold home, writes Propertymark's Timothy Douglas thetimes.co.uk/article/goves-…

Dame Meg Hillier is worried about developers going bust.

The Labour Party Is she also worried about leaseholders going bankrupt and losing their homes because of the crippling costs of the building safety crisis?

👀... Did the Moat media team send a statement to Charlotte Duck without checking with their sales team what the actual policy says?

What is the prevalent position in your membership National Housing Federation?

I think first-time buyers ought to know, don't you? 👇

Housing Associations regularly seem to say one thing to their tenants and something else to media and politicians. There has been several stories demonstrating this just in the last couple of days.

This game-playing needs to stop, it's ruining lives.

#UKHousing
@NatFedNews

#sharedownership despite meaning to be affordable home ownership it’s actually one of the riskiest investments someone can enter into - the only bit that is shared is the initial purchase, all other costs land on the leaseholder regardless of ‘shared’ element #conveyancing