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Social Housing Posts @uksocialhousing.bsky.social · 1d

My book Middle Ground is out now!

Based on over a decade of frontline experience in homes across London & the South East, it shares the human stories behind damp homes, disrepair & systemic failings - and calls for a fairer, more reliable social housing system.

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Housing Sector @housingsector.bsky.social · 2d

Here’s my response to #GreenSquareAccord’s Stage 2 complaint decision — and why I’ll now escalate to the Housing Ombudsman, Regulator of Social Housing, ICO, and Solicitors Regulation Authority.

www.greensquareaccordresidents.co.uk/reading-betw...

#HousingSector #FreeSpeech #Accountability

Reading Between The Lines — GreenSquareAccord Residents

“Reading Between the Lines” examines GreenSquareAccord’s Stage 2 complaint response in full, revealing patterns of evasion, misuse of legal process, and governance failures under CEO Ruth Cooke and He...

www.greensquareaccordresidents.co.uk

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SHAC: The Social Housing Action Campaign @shacaction.bsky.social · 2d

A great read! Thank you @housingsector.bsky.social.

More on the conference and National Tenants and Residents Union initiative here:
shaction.org/a-national-t...

Join SHAC free here
shaction.org/shac-registr...

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Housing Sector @housingsector.bsky.social · 3d

Do We Need a Union?

As @shacaction.bsky.social leads the call for a National Tenants and Residents Union, I’ve laid out my thoughts in this new blog.

Read it here - www.housingsector.co.uk/blog/do-we-n...

#Housing #Tenants #SHAC #ResidentVoice #HousingUnion #SocialHousing #UKHousing

Do we need a Union? — Housing Sector

With SHAC hosting a national event on 11th October to explore forming a Tenants and Residents Union, this blog asks the big question: do we need one? Drawing on personal experience, sector failings, a...

www.housingsector.co.uk

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Housing Sector @housingsector.bsky.social · 3d

The Housing Sector Podcast Episode #55 – "The Fleecehold Trap"

In this episode, I speak with Lee, a homeowner and "fleecehold" campaigner, about the reality of living under a private estate management company.

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#HousingSector #Fleecehold #Leasehold

Housing Sector Podcast Episode #55 – The Fleecehold Trap

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Martin D @unixmaisonette.com · 3d

Another Sunday afternoon in PPE, salvaging possessions from my flat. More than two years later, there’s still water coming in, and we still don’t know how any of this meets building regulations or how the structure has been affected by being wet for so long.

Here’s me in a filter mask in my hallway. The corridor is covered in water, reflecting the scene.

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Housing Sector @housingsector.bsky.social · 10d

Three reports. Three versions of the same story. #GreenSquareAccord’s glossy spin. My residents’ report. And the Housing Ombudsman findings.

Read A Tale of Two Reports and draw your own conclusions:

www.greensquareaccordresidents.co.uk/a-tale-of-tw...

A Tale Of Two Reports — GreenSquareAccord Residents

A Tale of Two Reports compares GreenSquareAccord’s glossy annual report with the Housing Ombudsman’s 2024/25 findings. Behind the polished PR, the Ombudsman’s data shows high rates of maladministratio...

www.greensquareaccordresidents.co.uk

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Dave Sheekey @muzungudave64.bsky.social · 11d

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Dave Sheekey @muzungudave64.bsky.social · 24d

x.com/TheCanaryUK/...

Canary on X: "Residents say that a retirement home in Chester is failing them Abbeyfield Chester is a retirement scheme that claims its residents enjoy supported housing with high standards. But this is not the case, says @UniteHousing https://t.co/UomhUtDaxN" / X

Residents say that a retirement home in Chester is failing them Abbeyfield Chester is a retirement scheme that claims its residents enjoy supported housing with high standards. But this is not the case, says @UniteHousing https://t.co/UomhUtDaxN

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SHAC: The Social Housing Action Campaign @shacaction.bsky.social · 18d

SHAC Article: Plus Dane Charging Thousands for Services We Never See

shaction.org/2025/09/21/p...

📣 Plus Dane is financially exploiting tenants and residents.

✊ SHAC is supporting their fight back.

Social Housing Action CampaignPlus Dane Charging Thousands for Services We Never See

By Ella Austen The paperwork that ties me to Plus Dane Housing was written in 1989. I was a barely sentient one year old. My name isn’t on it. Plus Dane’s name isn’t on it. Yet somehow, this paperw…

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SHAC: The Social Housing Action Campaign @shacaction.bsky.social · 11d

It's necessary. It's happening. Ben Jenkins & Housing Sector gave us the chance to explain plans for a genuinely democratic National Tenants' and Residents' Union.

Conference: 11-4 - 11th October

Indian YMCA, 41 Fitzroy Square, London W1T 6AG - and online.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZROt...

Housing Sector Podcast Episode #54 - The Case for a National Tenants and Residents Union

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Housing Sector @housingsector.bsky.social · 16d

Housing Sector Podcast #54 with Suz Muna (SHAC).
We explore why tenants need a national union—casework, legal support, and real power to rebalance against landlords.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZROt...

#HousingPodcast #TenantsUnion #ResidentsUnion #TenantRights @shacaction.bsky.social

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Housing Sector @housingsector.bsky.social · 19d

Just published a resident-led GSA Annual Report 2025.
Took me half a day on my Mac — yet GSA’s team, funded by residents, took months. What’s left out is as telling as what’s in.

www.greensquareaccordresidents.co.uk/gsa-report-2...

#GreenSquareAccord #RuthCooke #SteveHayes #HousingSector

GSA Report 2025! — GreenSquareAccord Residents

The GSA Residents’ Annual Report 2025 offers an alternative view of GreenSquareAccord’s performance, written entirely from a resident’s perspective. Produced in half a day on a home computer — compare...

www.greensquareaccordresidents.co.uk

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SHAC: The Social Housing Action Campaign @shacaction.bsky.social · 21d

Thx @bbclondon.bsky.social for inviting SHAC to comment on a flawed @homebuildersfed.bsky.social report that urges cutting social housing targets. Actually, social housing should be funded through full council grant - it's more effective & pays for itself.

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SHAC on BBC Radio - London Housing Development

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Housing Sector @housingsector.bsky.social · 23d

What happens when someone escapes abuse but finds the housing system stretched to breaking point?

I speak with frontline practitioner Sherrelle Collman about trauma, gatekeeping & safeguarding in housing.

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#HousingSectorPodcast #DomesticAbuse

The Housing Sector Podcast #53 – Providing Safety When There Is None

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Social Housing Posts @uksocialhousing.bsky.social · 26d

“Labour’s biggest donor Lord Waheed Alli evicted a young family from his rented north London townhouse before relisting the property for over £1,000 a month more in rent, The i Paper can reveal.”

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Labour super-donor Lord Alli evicted young family - then hiked rent by £1,000 a month

The Labour peer's eviction of a family with young children from their home in north London would be outlawed from next year under his party's Renters' Rights Bill

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Housing Sector @housingsector.bsky.social · 26d

Makes a change to be asked questions!

youtu.be/2MlRcqJ4jvQ

Full podcast can be found here:

www.youtube.com/watch?v=5oCM...

CLADDING MATTERS - Ben Jenkins speaks

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Social Housing Posts @uksocialhousing.bsky.social · 28d

"Housing Committee Chair presses Government on independent national oversight mechanism to ensure Grenfell inquiry recommendations are implemented"

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Housing Committee Chair presses Government on independent national oversight mechanism to ensure Grenfell inquiry recommendations are implemented - Committees - UK Parliament

Florence Eshalomi, Chair of the Housing, Communities and Local Government (HCLG) Committee, has reiterated her Committee’s call for the Government to introduce an independent national oversight ...

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Housing Sector @housingsector.bsky.social · 28d

#SteveHayes, #GreenSquareAccord Communications Director, tried to take down resident voices on YouTube under the banner of “privacy.”

The result? More traffic, more exposure, and more questions. Hayes now looks to be defending his own image rather than the organisation’s

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Martin D @unixmaisonette.com · 29d

Alexandra’s story shows how the systems to protect us aren’t working. @chtra.org.uk members raised our plight with the Housing Ombudsman and @rshengland.bsky.social with no action. As Ben says, you get more consumer protector you buy a kettle.

Housing Sector @housingsector.bsky.social · Sep 8

The Housing Sector Podcast #52 Luxury Flats, Legal Nightmares – with Alexandra Druzhinin

She bought a “luxury” flat in Camden. Now she’s trapped in a crumbling, uninsurable home — and now heading to court just to secure basic protection.

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The Housing Sector Podcast #52 -Luxury Flats, Legal Nightmares – with Alexandra Druzhinin

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Housing Sector @housingsector.bsky.social · Sep 8

The Housing Sector Podcast #52 Luxury Flats, Legal Nightmares – with Alexandra Druzhinin

She bought a “luxury” flat in Camden. Now she’s trapped in a crumbling, uninsurable home — and now heading to court just to secure basic protection.

youtu.be/FC3DIkl4c1I

The Housing Sector Podcast #52 -Luxury Flats, Legal Nightmares – with Alexandra Druzhinin

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Social Housing Posts @uksocialhousing.bsky.social · Sep 6

“Thousands to be taken off council housing register”

www.northantstelegraph.co.uk/news/people/...

Thousands to be taken off council housing register

NNC is planning on cutting its housing register by taking more than 3,000 people off the list

www.northantstelegraph.co.uk

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Social Housing Posts @uksocialhousing.bsky.social · Sep 5

“Corrupt' housing officers suspected of allocating hundreds of east London council homes for cash
Police make arrests amid investigation into four-year east London housing 'scam'”

www.standard.co.uk/news/politic...

'Corrupt' housing officers suspected of huge east London council homes scam

Police make arrests amid investigation into four-year east London housing 'scam'

www.standard.co.uk

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Housing Sector @housingsector.bsky.social · Sep 5

#SteveHayes Strikes Again.

When a home is always personal, but a #GreenSquareAccord comms director makes their role personal too, conflict is inevitable.

www.greensquareaccordresidents.co.uk/blog/the-steve-hayes-waynbsp-aka-hayes-on-whynbsp

The Steve Hayes Way (AKA - Hayes-On-Why) — GreenSquareAccord Residents

Steve Hayes, Communications Director at GreenSquareAccord, has blurred the line between professionalism and personal vendetta. From self-nominated awards and PR spin to repeated YouTube takedown attem...

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Housing Sector @housingsector.bsky.social · Sep 5

#SteveHayes again proving he knows very little when it comes to reputation management and privacy laws! #GreenSquareAccord #RuthCooke

Housing Sector @housingsector.bsky.social · Sep 1

Housing is full of jargon. Section 20? Decanting? Viability?

I’ve built a free tool to strip it back to plain English:
www.housingsector.co.uk/housing-sect...

The Housing Sector Dictionary is live. No spin. No sector-speak. Just clarity.

#Housing #SocialHousing #Residents #HousingSector

Housing Sector Dictionary — Housing Sector

The Housing Sector Dictionary is a plain-English guide to 50+ common housing terms, acronyms, and regulations. From Section 20 and service charges to governance grades, the Housing Ombudsman, and retr...

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