SHAC: The Social Housing Action Campaign

SHAC in the Morning Star: Prevention key to get homeless off streets by Christmas, PM told So much posturing - every homeless person deserves a home, but will be betrayed unless govt is willing to grip underlying, complex causes of the housing emergency. morningstaronline.co.uk/article/prev...

SHAC Article: “A Second Mortgage”: High Point Village Leaseholders Call for Action Over Soaring Charges shaction.org/2026/10/26/a... People squeezed financially & Ballymore doubles UK profits to £3.7m. Join the dots. SHAC's uniting against exploitation & profiteering. #EndServiceChargeAbuse

SHAC Article: Lessons from Spain: Organising to Fight the Housing Emergency Spanish communities, tenants' & trade unions have united to strike for housing justice. It offers a blueprint for what ordinary people in the UK can achieve via collective action. shaction.org/2026/10/20/l...

SHAC Article: Does Housing Need Its Own Horizon-Style Inquiry? SHAC proposes that an independent inquiry consider ten questions. They are starting points for investigation into the whole, interconnected housing system in the UK. shaction.org/2026/10/10/d...

'oversaw the running of the Grenfell landlord’s tenant management organisation (TMO). The Grenfell inquiry was highly critical of its operation saying that it was responsible for “chronic and systemic failings” in fire safety management, as well as a “toxic” relationship with the tower’s residents'

SHAC Article - Standing With Survivors: SHAC Joins Grenfell United Demand That Barnet homes Sacks Laura Johnson. Barnet Council shares responsibility for the actions of this wholly owned council company too. shaction.org/2026/09/24/s...

SHAC and Members in the Guardian - Awaab’s law not working www.theguardian.com/society/2026... Really simple: No point creating new laws unless you make it possible for people to enforce them. The deliberate enforcement gap keeps the landlord lobby happy. Hence we need a #NationalHousingUnion.

Unite calling for council house building, rent control and no above inflation social rent increases & much more at the TUC Report here: www.housingworkers.org.uk/readnews.htm... @shacaction.bsky.social

SHAC on Housing Panel at Peace and Justice Project Annual Conference - join us if you can! 3pm, Sunday 20th September, Arts two Lecture Theatre 335 Mile End Rd, Bethnal Green, London E1 4NT thecorbynproject.com/events/annua...

Plans for a new housing union to be launched at TUC Congress today Suzanne Muna from @shacaction.bsky.social said "We expect a big fightback but if it doesn’t happen here we are not going to stop […] this is going to happen and it’s just a matter of when" www.morningstaronline.co.uk/article/hous...

“it’s becoming clear to people that none of these parties are speaking for us on housing now so we need to create tenant and resident power. “I think the lack of working-class representation is a massive factor and that is something that’s been a gradual process of erosion"

SHAC in the Morning Star - Plans for first-ever housing union to be launched at TUC Congress Thx to Morning Star for covering the National Housing Union project. The response at the TUC has been fantastic. We're ready for the next phase. www.morningstaronline.co.uk/article/hous...

What a Day! Our Blueprint for a National Housing Union is flying high at the TUC annual conference. We're halfway through our stack of the boxes & we still have the fringe mtng tomorrow. Read the blueprint - back the campaign - get your union involved: shaction.org/a-national-h... #SHACBlueprint

We're here ... it's day one of the Trade Union Congress and we're broadcasting SHAC's National Housing Union Blueprint Housing is a trade union issue. It’s time to fight together! ✊🏠 #SHACBlueprint #HousingCrisis #TradeUnions #SocialHousing #TUC2026 #TenantsRights #HousingUnion

SHAC Article: I Thought I Was Just Checking My Service Charges shaction.org/2026/09/05/i... Olivia started out checking figures on a service charge letters & ended up building resident power: a journey she never expected to take, but her experience will be familiar to many. #EndServiceChargeAbuse

SHAC Article - Peabody Was Convicted. It Took a Resident to Make it Happen The real story here is the lack of state protection. shaction.org/2026/08/27/p... A devastating disconnect - the illusion of state oversight, but tenants & residents are on their own. Join us to hold landlords to account.

SHAC in the Morning Star: "Burnham ‘capitulates to landlords and the housing market,’ campaigners say" It shows that the interests of the landlord class are still the most powerful bloc in Westminster, and that we need to create our own power. morningstaronline.co.uk/article/burn...

SHAC on BBC Radio London - Investing in Council Housing We welcomed govt's improved investment in council housing & said funds should also be used to refurbish empty council homes, Right to Buy needs to end, & 100% should be social rents instead of the 60% target. youtube.com/watch?v=F9W5...

SHAC Article: Antisocial Behaviour and the Evidence Loop Trap After lived experience at the sharp end of ASB, Dean used his knowledge to write a plan for improving ASB case handling & enforcement: “Protecting the Right to Peaceful Enjoyment”. Now used to lobby MPs. shaction.org/2026/08/24/a...

2/2 Add them to Schedule 19 of the Equality Act And they can no longer try and wriggle out of their responsibilities towards a large number of their tenants Then make evasion a criminal offence

One thing would help pull Housing Associations into the realm of accountability From the 1882 Cross report to the present day Parliamentary scrutiny has opined that Housing Associations be viewed as 'public bodies'. Housing Associations try to claim they are not covered by the Act 1/2

SHAC Article: We Can End the Conspiracy of Silence: Join MPs’ Call for Action shaction.org/2026/08/20/w...

Thx to @bellribeiroaddy.bsky.social for this! Please share the letter. If your MP is one of the signatories, please encourage to maintain pressure on Government to address the gap. If your MP is not among the signatories, please ask them to endorse it.

SHAC Article - Please like and share: Notting Hill Woes: Residents Win Legal Battle Over Historic Repair Costs shaction.org/2026/08/09/n... This raises important questions about landlords recovering major works costs from leaseholders. But it's also more bad news for erially scandal-hit NHG.

The government is wrong to rule out rent caps in the private sector, just as it was wrong to pledge social rent increases above inflation. shaction.org/2026/07/28/t...

SHAC Article - A Pensioner’s Fight Against Housing Injustice shaction.org/2026/07/13/a... "Last year I experienced a retaliatory eviction ... It is part of a pattern. Since 2021, I have been forced to move three times." Join SHAC's project to end housing injustice for all. #NationalHousingUnion.

SHAC Article: Over 100 Southwark Families Face Eviction from Former Notting Hill Genesis Homes 🚨 shaction.org/2026/07/08/a... Corporate landlord BMR Group Ltd bought the homes from social landlord NHG. Residents are fighting back, demanding action from Southwark Council. #NoEvictions

Our Blueprint for a national housing union is here. You can leave your feedback on the page too to share your views. The housing emergency and lack of access to justice for tenants and residents are well-documented. We need a mass, national, democratic union. shaction.org/a-national-h...

*SHAC Article - The Three Closed Doors: A Stress Test of Leasehold Accountability* shaction.org/2026/06/25/t... David Wood offers a sharp analysis of the systems that were supposed to keep tenants and residents safe from landlord exploitation. Verdict: They are completely failing.

Big Issue founder urges action on empty homes: 'What are we going to do about boarded-up houses?' buff.ly/jolMQcw @marisharay.bsky.social @libhousing.bsky.social @gideonamos.bsky.social @libdemlocalgov.bsky.social @laylamoran.bsky.social @shacaction.bsky.social @bigissue.com

SHAC Article: 🚩 Westminster Council serves as a warning: failing local democracy & institutional defensiveness replace public accountability. 🚩🚩 The impact on tenants & residents is devastating. 🚩🚩🚩 It's a call to create our own power! #SHACNationalHousingUnion shaction.org/2026/06/20/w...

SHAC Comment in the Press Pete Apps has been one of the most dedicated reporters on the scandal of the Grenfell fire which could have been prevented if authorities had listened to tenants and residents. peteapps.substack.com/p/has-social...

SHAC in the News - The Guardian highlighs 20% of councils built no social housing in the last two years, and that if govt continues to deliver at a snail’s pace, none of us alive today will see the end of the housing emergency. SHAC's agitating for real change! theguardian.com/society/2026...

SHAC Comment in the Press Thanks to Camden New Journal for covering the shocking cost of housing - something that seems to have become normalised in the majority of the press. We cannot & should not accept it (see P8 of e-edition). edition.pagesuite.com/html5/reader...

A massive new national survey of 829 residents by SHAC reveals rampant service charge exploitation across the UK, just as Housing Minister Matthew Pennycook rejects calls to cap skyrocketing costs. #EndServiceChargeAbuse shaction.org/2026/05/27/m...

Our new Parliamentary Petition has launched. It calls for government to make it possible for tenants and leaseholders to pay disputed service charges to a court to decide who gets the money. Please sign and share, share, share! petition.parliament.uk/petitions/76...

Disputed service charges shouldn’t be “pay first, argue later.” This is a fair and transparent proposal that residents and good landlords should both support. petition.parliament.uk/petitions/767125 #Housing #ServiceCharges #SocialHousing #BenJenkins @shacaction.bsky.social

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SHAC Article: A Brutal War of Attrition shaction.org/2026/05/07/s... As Hassan says: "The accountability gap isn’t a malfunction. It’s a design feature." We're working towards a Housing Union by and for tenants and residents to rebalance landlord-tenant power. More at shaction.org/a-national-h...

On Saturday, we marched with around 6,000 housing warriors on the National Housing Demonstration. We had a huge range of different groups, and it was a great privilege to meet so many other campaigners. Solidarity to all! shaction.org/national-hou...

SHAC Article - FirstPort & the £300,000 Black Hole FirstPort: living proof of hyper-exploitation of tenants & residents as govt willfully looks the other way. #EndServiceChargeAbuse shaction.org/2026/04/20/t...

SHAC Research: It's The Great Housing Benefit Heist! Landlords ripping off the taxpayer by siphoning off Housing Benefits for service charges to cover ghost services at extortionate rates. shaction.org/2026/04/13/t... #EndServiceChargeAbuse

£500,000 in service charges… with no invoices. In Podcast #68, I speak with Muna_Suz from @shacaction.bsky.social about #Peabody, service charge overcharging, and the legal tactics used to silence residents. This isn’t one case—it’s a pattern. www.youtube.com/watch?v=KO5r...

SHAC Article: Missing Info and the Service Charge Maze -Service charges spiralled & an email built a residents’ assoc. shaction.org/2026/04/02/m... David has exceptional evidence of service charge abuse by Peabody but his experience is common. £500k of missing invoices. #EndServiceChargeAbuse

SHAC Meeting - Challenging Service Charges 6pm Today, 30th March Join us to discuss how we challenge and resist extortionate service charges. All welcome. Join at tinyurl.com/CSCSMeet