Things that really matter to me: #BuildingSafetyCrisis #EndOurCladdingScandal #FBPE ...books, nature and family when I'm not worrying about all of the above.
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Joined September 2019
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I'm a shared owner, not a cash cow ❌️ retweeted
"We can’t extend our lease. But we can’t sell our share because no one would get a mortgage due to the short lease remaining."
'My SO Home' - What it’s like being a shared owner (written by shared owners, not marketing teams)
#SharedOwnership #Retirement
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I'm a shared owner, not a cash cow ❌️ retweeted
"While we have offered to undertake the works on behalf of homeowners and fund the up-front costs, this will ultimately be passed to homeowners at an estimated cost of up to £23,000 per property."
🤔 What's the plan for buildings <11m @AngelaRayner?
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I'm a shared owner, not a cash cow ❌️ retweeted
Maths (even basic arithmetic) not a strong point for the client journalist & stenographer.
When Labour left government national debt about £800bn, national debt when Tories left government >£3Tn even a basic understanding of numeracy says that's worse even allowing for inflation.
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Dear @mtpennycock @AngelaRayner congratulations, emergency help needed. 5 years in limbo - unsellable, unremediated, leasehold hell with HPL cladding with a distant corporate FH & MA, no plans. No audited, transparent SC accounts, annual S20Bs since 2020. No £ left. The end.
Congratulations on the new job @AngelaRayner.
I've been trapped in the building safety crisis for 7 years. I can't sell or remortgage. I've just received this bill from my "social" landlord. No spare cash left I'm afraid.
What do you suggest?
I'm a shared owner, not a cash cow ❌️ retweeted
My first ask of the new Labour Government is to commit to delivering Grenfell Law 💚
Many will go to sleep tonight, their building still wrapped in cladding 7 years on, wondering if they could be next.
I'm a shared owner, not a cash cow ❌️ retweeted
And just like that…
The Daily Mail became a supporter and enabler of economic migrants.
This. Many of us are hanging by a thread. It's been five years.
@mtpennycook
@Keir_Starmer
@AngelaRayner
You need to resolve this. @Barrattplc is about to leave unidentified flammable materials on our buildings...keeping insurance costs and service charges sky high.
We desperately need a functioning govt to #EndOurCladdingScandal.
3 times so far today residents from other buildings have tried to tell me that I should do X thing on their behalf. This burden cannot continue on small no. of volunteers already dealing with their own situations.
I'm a shared owner, not a cash cow ❌️ retweeted
"Vistry, Persimmon, Taylor Wimpey, Barratt and Berkeley all finished the day between 2-3% higher on the back of Labour’s plans to build new homes."
❌ Barratt is supposed to remediate our building. They have yet to carry out an *initial* assessment.
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I'm a shared owner, not a cash cow ❌️ retweeted
Bored of this bollocks!! I could have set up life savings for m grandkids, bought a new car, taken my grandkids on holiday, travelled myself but NO I’ve had to pick up the pieces of the #claddingscandal @RishiSunak @michaelgove
I'm a shared owner, not a cash cow ❌️ retweeted
Today marks 15 years since the fatal Lakanal House fire. 6 people died including a newborn baby. If the coroners recommendations had been implemented following the inquest - Grenfell would likely never have happened. Lessons have still not been learned. towerblocksuk.com/lakanal
I'm a shared owner, not a cash cow ❌️ retweeted
Life of leaseholders ..
No rights on past works, residents paid £15k a flat in 2014-2027 for the roof issues, since 2019 paid again continuously for roof patching and repairs .. no paperwork available as they don’t have it from the old Management.. now wanting us to pay again
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A crisis cannot be mishandled this badly by accident imho.
Our ground floor residents will be living like this for the next 6 months as the hoardings have now gone up @MetTVH we want a better solution for residents who shouldn't be expected to live in the dark @luhc
I'm a shared owner, not a cash cow ❌️ retweeted
Today on @BBCLondonNews we remember the Lakanal
House fire 15 years ago. Then a high rise block in Southwark with flammable cladding , no sprinklers & residents told to stay put . Three women & three children died. #Lakanal #Grenfell #firesafety #southwark
I'm a shared owner, not a cash cow ❌️ retweeted
🚨 "600,000 people in Britain still live in homes at heightened risk of a fatal fire and three million own homes they can’t sell for fire safety reasons; since Grenfell, more than 15,000 people have been forced to move out of their homes indefinitely."
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I'm a shared owner, not a cash cow ❌️ retweeted
Our ground floor residents will be living like this for the next 6 months as the hoardings have now gone up @MetTVH we want a better solution for residents who shouldn't be expected to live in the dark @luhc
I'm a shared owner, not a cash cow ❌️ retweeted
This is Frank and he has had a coffee stand at the top of the steps at Bethnal Green tube for as long as I can remember.
When the new restaurant/coffee shop next door opened along with another high street outlet opening across the street, Frank suddenly found that his license from the council had been revoked and he was chucked off his stand.
I believe it was to make way for these new shops to take his regular custom. They didn’t need him in the way of gaining maximum profit... so Frank was gone.
Well the locals were having none of it and a petition started demanding his return.
How dare they do this to him.
How dare these people smash his business and leave him with nothing.
After a lot of pressure the council backed down and Frank had his licence and pitch returned to him but sadly by that time Frank had sold his equipment to feed his family and try to survive.
So the good people of Bethnal Green started crowdfunding and here’s the result... Frank back in business on his old pitch with brand new equipment and even a little hut now to shelter him from the rain... Brilliant!!
He is truly the happiest man in East London and it’s wonderful to see.
It really does show that if we all stick together, stand up to them and just say no... the little guy can win.
If you’re in Bethnal Green come and have a coffee with this lovely man. 🧡
I'm a shared owner, not a cash cow ❌️ retweeted
Just 2.6% of shared owners staircase to 100% (probably including simultaneous sale and staircasing transactions), yet SO has generated £6.5bn from first tranche sales and staircasing for housing associations. Who are the winners and who are the losers here?