May Day Greetings! shaction.org/campaigns/unfa…

petition.parliament.uk/petitions/6596…

Thanks Your Money for highlighting how quickly our petition is gathering support. It has now exceeded 16,000 signatures. yourmoney.com/household-bill… If you believe that service charge abuse needs to be debated in Parliament, please sign the Parliamentary petition.

Matthew Pennycook MP Great but protection needs to be extended to all service charges and to include shared owners and full renters. No level of financial exploitation is acceptable. petition.parliament.uk/petitions/6596…

'Our investigations show that landlords are not always as clear and transparent about charges as they could be,” Housing Ombudsman, Richard Blakeway.. ' Many including L&Q aren't transparent about anything aa Blakeway knows .' theguardian.com/money/article/…

The leasehold service charge scam that is bigger scandal to the U.K. people than PPI, Libor or anything else. I have researched this quite a bit in recent weeks 🧵

I regret my leasehold flat – my service charge has soared to £3,800 a year Isabelle Aron speaks to Alex Bradbrook who says the service charge on his two-bed apartment has doubled, due to rising electricity costs and an 'off-site concierge' trib.al/jG089VY

🚨 Our latest polling with The Observer The Labour lead is now 20 points. • Labour 45% (+4) • Conservatives 25% (-2) • Lib Dems 8% (-2) • SNP 3% (+1) • Greens 6% (-1) • Reform 11% (+1) Fieldwork: 29 - 31 May. Changes from 23 - 24 May.

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This Sunday's cover ‘People like it because it’s the messy truth’: lifelong friends Lily Allen and Miquita Oliver on their hit BBC Sounds podcast, Miss Me? ✍️ Miranda Sawyer 📸 perou 🇺🇦

Tory MP Philip Davies put a £8k bet on himself to lose. This is what we found when we dug into his and his wife Esther McVey’s finances

Thanks to Big Issue for including comment from SHAC on how harmful it is for the new govt to side with landlords instead of tenants and residents. bigissue.com/news/housing/l… They've agreed inflation busting (CPI+1%) rent increases for the next 10 years for social housing providers -

One of our members wrote to her landlord refusing to pay the above-inflation rent increase that Rachel Reeves has just promised social landlords. The landlord wrote back with: "Thanks for the information from SHAC but until there is a revolution or outcome from the Social

Congratulations to tenants on the Locton estate, whose persistence has forced Clarion Housing Group to admit its estimated £18.89 a week service charge in '24/25 should actually have been £5.56. Its disgraceful that neither the Regulator nor the Housing Ombudsman are helping them

‘Affordable’ shared-ownership homes cost residents more than half their wages theguardian.com/money/2024/sep…

SHAC & Service Charge Abuse in the News Thanks The Observer & Jon Ungoed-Thomas for covering the scandal of uncontrolled hikes in service charges. Legalised extortion needs action now @angelarayner & Matthew Pennycook MP to avoid a new wave of homelessness. shaction.org/service-charge…

The BBC sound effects library is now completely free to access. This is news. sound-effects.bbcrewind.co.uk/search?cat=Mac…

🌹Leaseholders backed The Labour Party because they pledged to take on vested interests. Yet lobbyists are already making them walk back their promises on leasehold. Our message to Keir Starmer and Matthew Pennycook MP is simple: we can’t afford to wait 5 more years. insidehousing.co.uk/comment/labour…

Here's why I think the proposed sale of the Observer to Tortoise would severely damage the reputation of the Scott Trust and threaten the future of the world's oldest Sunday newspaper, which I edited until last weekend 🧵

Housing associations increased their service charge income by 15.8% in 2024 to £1.9 billion. We are certain that similar increases will apply to council and private landlords and managing agents. This is way above inflation. shaction.org/2025/01/11/tri… Meanwhile, the courts ordered