Cladding Victim 

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Cladding Victim 

@LostInSW19

In a block with combustible cladding. Still waiting for a remediation plan. Unable to move on. Helping @EOCS_Official & others. Here to #EndOurCladdingScandal

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Cladding Victim @LostInSW19·2 Mar

Another thing no one ever mentions: shared owners in blocks like mine pay higher service charges than private leaseholders. Why? Because the housing association slaps a “management fee” on top of the managing agent’s costs, despite not actually managing anything.

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Cladding Victim @LostInSW19·12h

@DavidMcGregorBN Good stuff. Now please tell me what has Labour done on building safety? People in my block put their kids to bed at night knowing there is flammable cladding on the building. Labour were vocal in opposition, but are now bankrolling developers to meet newbuild targets instead.

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David@DavidMcGregorBN·20h

People ask what Labour has actually done. Try telling a renter facing a no-fault eviction that ending Section 21 doesn’t matter. Try telling a struggling family that breakfast clubs don’t matter. Some of us know these things change lives because we’ve lived it.

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Cladding Victim @LostInSW19·20h

@ACORNLDN Our building has a mix of shared owners and social tenants. The cladding is ACM class 3 - the same flammable type used on Grenfell Tower - and we had a balcony fire back in 2020. We’ve never seen a single housing association rep on site.

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Cladding Victim @LostInSW19·21h

@ACORNLDN Agree on need for more social housing, but all newbuilds face similar building safety issues, including those managed by housing associations. Failures happen across the board. My landlord is a housing association, and they show no interest in how our site is being managed.

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ACORN London@ACORNLDN·21h

One of many examples of failures of the private sector. We already have the solutions for this - we need much more investment in social housing!

ACORN the union@ACORNunion

Nearly HALF of purpose built blocks of flats are failing fire safety checks. We have repeatedly seen that this is literally a matter of life and death. Yet building managers are neglecting their duty, cutting corners, and putting people’s lives at risk.

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BBC Sussex@BBCSussex·1d

Residents in a council tower block in Brighton that has been approved for demolition due to safety concerns say they are worried about finding homes. More here: bbc.in/4uBA9Rl

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End Our Cladding Scandal@EOCS_Official·22h

📆 This Friday at 12pm We’re joining journalist @PeteApps for a live Substack chat on the building safety crisis. We’ll discuss what’s going wrong and how Labour could fix it. 🔗 Link and how to join in the reply.

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orwellvalley@orwellvalley·2d

Everyone’s arguing about who gets these new build homes. I’m living in one I’ve already paid for - and I still can’t afford to stay. #leasehold #LeaseholdReform

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Stuart Brown@InclusiveBuild·1d

Today's letter from @SamanthaDixonMP states, they are still implementing the Grenfell recommendations as a "core priority", they got the phase 2 report 1.5 years ago, phase 1 report 6.5 years ago and the fire happened almost 9 years ago. This is still moving at a snails pace.

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Cladding Victim @LostInSW19·1d

None of the report’s recommendations have been acted on. @UKLabour still hasn’t done anything to help shared owners stuck in homes they can’t sell. @mtpennycook was vocal in opposition, but as a Minister he’s looked the other way. “Change,” they said.

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Cladding Victim @LostInSW19·1d

Shared ownership: too expensive to buy, hard to sell… and the solution is to let more people into the same broken scheme a select committee called “an unbearable reality” 2 years ago? Make it make sense.

Inside Housing@insidehousing

Should shared ownership thresholds be adapted for the more expensive areas? dlvr.it/TRZY6c #ukhousing

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ottaproperty.co.uk@ottaproperty·1d

bbc.co.uk/news/articles/… "Average age of first time buyer climbs to 34" Terrible advice to look for flats.

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@dpmurphy121 @ma11eta *so

Cladding Victim @LostInSW19·1d

@dpmurphy121 @ma11eta Sorry to hear that. There are words missing in my tweet si I will delete it. My service charge is £500 *per month*.

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Aaron@ma11eta·2d

The average service charge for a london flat is £2.8k/year, thats £233/month.... forever. Costs go up each year. Service goes down. No surprise demand is collapsing At this point, it’s not housing. It’s pure extraction.

Peter Bill@peterproperty

Tel (£) “demand for these flats has collapsed. Nearly 40pc of flats built and bought in Wandsworth since 2010 were sold at a loss in the last five years.” All you need to do is look at the pictures and then also imagine the service charges. telegraph.co.uk/money/property…

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Cladding Victim @LostInSW19·1d

@DaBoatLDN @SustainableTall Labour is just banging on about “more transparency” on service charges, basically sticking to the plan the Conservatives designed. As if the silver lining is just knowing exactly how you’re getting ripped off.

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Man like Dave! ⚒@DaBoatLDN·2d

@SustainableTall Service charges. If they clamp down on this then people would gladly take them. Profiteering with no accountability for what that charge is spent on. Make the spending open to residents and/or put limits on how much they charge.

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Philip Oldfield@SustainableTall·3d

London has built lots of flats…but few people want to buy them Since 2014, some 20,000 flats have been completed in Wandsworth. But nearly 40% of modern flats there have sold at a loss in the last 5 years archive.is/A3rfy

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Dr Rosena@DrRosena·2d

Those responsible for Grenfell should be jailed. The Tower stands surrounded by one of the wealthiest areas in Britain, yet it was neglected, warnings ignored, and safety treated as an afterthought. While a memorial is a step in the right direction, we need justice too.

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Cladding Victim @LostInSW19·1d

@Mroperandi @MayorofLondon Housing associations do something even more perverse than that: they add a 'management fee' in top of the service charge. So shared owners pay more service charge than private leaseholders in the same block.

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mroperandi@Mroperandi·1d

@LostInSW19 @MayorofLondon Insane - they don't share in the maintenance and service charge cost.

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Cladding Victim @LostInSW19·2d

Try £6,000 a year for a 1 bed shared ownership flat. [A flat marketed as "genuinely affordable housing" by the @MayorofLondon]

Philip Oldfield@SustainableTall

Why is this? High service charges (£8,700 a year for a 3-bedder 🤯), and concerns about cladding post Grenfell. All this makes it unsurprising that London housebuilding has collapsed - down 72% in just a year!

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Zahrah Aullybocus@ZahrahAullyboc2·2d

@SophieLB1 @katesineed @NLC_2019 @SteveReedMP @mtpennycook @cattwil @UKLabour And I’m getting calls from executors who can’t sell their shared ownership flats because of the BSA. People denied their inheritance because govt continue to look the other way. Blocks of flats empty and yet you want to build more? #buildingsafetyact

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Sophie@SophieLB1·2d

@NLC_2019 @SteveReedMP @mtpennycook @cattwil Sadly too many of us are still completely trapped due to unsafe buildings. I'm having the same conversations over and over again explaining the reality that we're all still suffering. @UKLabour aren't being bold enough to solve the #BuildingSafetyCrisis alongside #LeaseholdReform

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Cladding Victim @LostInSW19·1d

@leftth0ughts And a very significant number of leaseholders are in negative equity so they can't afford to sell. Several flats are empty. A handful were sold to cash buyers at auction. A similar scenario is happening all over London.

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Cladding Victim @LostInSW19·1d

@leftth0ughts My development is just down the round from where this picture was taken. It was overwhelmingly owner-occupiers (including shared owners) and social rent tenants initially. Now because flats are almost impossible to sell due to high service charge, a growing % of flats are let.

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.@leftth0ughts·2d

Interesting one this - how does London continue to build if profit margins and buyer appetite don't allow it to? Leasehold needs fixing *quickly* but I think this is an interesting "theory meets reality" situation for YIMBY arguments (I'm a yimby btw).

Philip Oldfield@SustainableTall

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