Category: Leaseholders and shared owners

Scotland needs proper rent controls

2 days ago

So does England Wales and Ireland ...

you.38degrees.org.uk

Renters in Scotland are suffering. Across the country, sky-high rents are forcing people into poverty and far too many tenants are living in slum-like conditions. We used to have rent controls to protect people from exactly this situation - until Thatcher scrapped them in the 80s - and now it’s ti...

Notting Hill Genesis Brent Housing Surgery

6 days ago

In case you have not received an email about this, please see below a copy of the email:

Dear Resident,

Notting Hill Genesis are organising an all-day housing surgery in Brent borough on Tuesday 25th February.

This will be an opportunity to meet with local housing staff to discuss issues within your home and to ask questions about any recent changes to the services you receive.

The housing surgery details are as follows:

Date: Tuesday 25th February 2020
Time: 9am to 6pm
Venue: Carlton Vale Community Centre, 1 Pentland Road, Kilburn, London, NW6 5RT

To attend this surgery, please sign up for a 30 minute appointment by visiting this link below:

www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/notting-hill-genesis-brent-housing-surgery-tickets-93484088425

We look forward to seeing you there

Yours Sincerely

Richard Bellis
Regional Head – North London ...

eventbrite.co.uk

Housing Surgery is an opportunity to meet with local housing staff to discuss issues within your home and to ask questions.

No City Hates Its Landlords Like Berlin Does

1 week ago

"Germany’s capital is taking extreme measures to stay (relatively) affordable and not go the way of San Francisco or London. Beginning in early 2020, Berlin’s left-leaning government will freeze rents for five years. Landlords will be required to show new tenants the most recent rental contracts to prove they aren’t jacking up prices. They’ll also have to follow new rent-cap rules, which for many landlords could mean lowering rents by as much as 40%. Those who don’t comply will be hit with fines as high as €500,000 ($553,000) for each violation." ...

bloomberg.com

Activists say a five-year rent freeze is merely a good start. Who’s up for expropriating some private property?

More than one in five people in UK live in poverty, says charity

1 week ago

"Approximately 14 million people are in poverty in the UK – more than one in five of the population, including 4 million children and 2 million pensioners, up by 400,000 and 300,000 respectively over the past five years.

A family is classified as being in poverty if it has an income of less than 60% of the median income for their family type, after housing costs. A family’s income includes earnings from employment, self-employment, state benefits and inheritances." ...

theguardian.com

About 14m struggling to make ends meet – a record high, says Joseph Rowntree Foundation

2 weeks ago

For any residents affected by the #cladding scandal, please ask your MP to attend this meeting on 12th February twitter.com/hilarybennmp/status/1224739886722318338?s=21 ...

Hilary Benn on Twitter

twitter.com

“I have been granted a Westminster Hall debate next week on leaseholders and cladding (2.30-4pm on Wed 12th Feb). A great opportunity to press once again for fair treatment of leaseholders caught up in the cladding nightmare. @LeedsCladding @cladding @McrCladiators @abismith28”

Number of social homes in England falls by over 17,000, figures show

2 weeks ago

'It is absolutely outrageous that we are haemorrhaging thousands of secure social homes every year' ...

independent.co.uk

'It is absolutely outrageous that we are haemorrhaging thousands of secure social homes every year'

Brexit day prisoner: Polish father desperate to sell Notting Hill Genesis cladding flat to join ailing family back home - Leasehold Knowledge Partnership

2 weeks ago

“It will take Notting Hill Genesis six months to two years to be able to produce this assessment,” he says.

“But I am desperate to sell up and leave and return to Gdansk.”

His wife Paulina, 28, who has been ill with post-natal depression, is having to looking after her parents, both of whom have been diagnosed with cancer.

“It is a terrible situation, but Notting Hill Genesis wasted two years before sorting the safety issues over the cladding. Like everybody else, my life is on hold until they start dealing with this. ...

leaseholdknowledge.com

Adam Woznicki, the Polish owner of a leasehold flat in a Notting Hill Genesis block, is unable to sell up and join his sick wife and two-year-old child in Poland owing to the cladding scandal. It took him six months to find a buyer for his flat at Zenith House in Colindale, north west London, …

24housing » News » Some 1.15 million households ‘stuck’ on social housing waiting lists

3 weeks ago

'Some 1.15 million households are stuck on social housing waiting lists ....Against this, there are over 17,000 fewer social homes than last year, as 23,740 were sold or demolished and just 6,287 delivered.' ...

24housing.co.uk

Some 1.15 million households ‘stuck’ on social housing waiting lists