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The Shared Owners' Network retweeted
This government’s plans are too little, too late.
We call on MPs scrutinising the Social Housing Bill to insist on a statutory review of shared ownership and demand funding for buybacks.
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The Shared Owners' Network retweeted
🆕 Minister @mtpennycook has set out his plans for shared ownership.
The problem? It’s a plan to sell more shared ownership homes, not to help existing shared owners.
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The Shared Owners' Network retweeted
I’m in this position too no one is helping Moat going to get their share and we are going to walk away with nothing how is this fair @moathomes @andyburnham
The Shared Owners' Network retweeted
Your regular reminder that, if you’re a shared owner, you have no option to challenge the rent increases you’re required to pay. Your rent will continue to rise above RPI every year.
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The Shared Owners' Network retweeted
If you’re a shared owner and need guidance on contacting the Public Bill Committee, get in touch:
📧 [email protected]
⏰ The deadline is fast approaching.
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The Shared Owners' Network retweeted
A review could inform future policy, but it wouldn’t resolve the urgent problems shared owners face today.
The Bill is an opportunity to act now: we need buyback funding for SO homes that are unmortgageable or unaffordable.
It’s not too late to write to the Bill committee ⬇️
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The Shared Owners' Network retweeted
🆕 The Lords voted to add a statutory review of shared ownership to the Social Housing Bill.
As expected, @mtpennycook has now tabled a Government amendment to remove it.
Another missed opportunity to listen to shared owners. ❌
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The Shared Owners' Network retweeted
👀 @UKLabour ministers don’t want scrutiny. They just want to keep funding shared ownership newbuilds.
Exhibit A.
🆕 The Lords voted to add a statutory review of shared ownership to the Social Housing Bill.
As expected, @mtpennycook has now tabled a Government amendment to remove it.
Another missed opportunity to listen to shared owners. ❌
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The Shared Owners' Network retweeted
Why @mtpennycook asked to remove it? So many s/o owners are suffering from being mis-sold and now notbeing able to sell due to fire safety issues.
The Shared Owners' Network retweeted
And it's covered in ACM.
Completed in 2012 for Origin Housing. Scaffolding up 8 years later.
Places for People took over Origin in 2024. They've been allocated £300m in taxpayer funding for new homes.
Build, baby, build @AngelaRayner
@mtpennycook ❓️
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ALT Image showing Archway Heights, a modern, approximately nine-storey residential building clad in silver and grey panels, with glass-fronted balconies and narrow windows. The building stands beside a curved road, with trees and lower-rise residential buildings nearby, beneath a blue sky.
ALT Screenshot from Places for People's Annual Report 2025. It says: DELIVERING AFFORDABLE HOMES We delivered affordable homes in multiple tenures, benefiting Communities across the UK. By year end, we had delivered 1,764 affordable homes, representing a 32% increase from 2023/24 (1,341 homes). Our 2021-26 strategic partnership with Homes England strengthened, providing homes for affordable rent, social rent and shared ownership. Exceeding our targets, we completed 663 homes under the strategic partnership during the year and began to construct 1,732. We also secured an additional £18.6m in grant funding to deliver a further 256 homes. This brings total grant funding to £300m for the delivery of 4,659 homes by March 2029. As part of our 2018/19 strategic partnership with Homes England, we completed 422 homes bringing the total to 2,303. There are now just 300 homes left to build to meet our overall target of 2,603 homes, utilising £87.5m of grant.
The Shared Owners' Network retweeted
🗨️ "I have lived in a shared ownership property, and I know that - as for other forms of ownership, such as leasehold -reforms are desperately needed to fix the many problems residents are facing."
👉 86% of our members would not recommend shared ownership to family & friends
The Shared Owners' Network retweeted
And yet, to exit this government-backed scheme, you have to find someone willing to buy your share, knowing you’d be passing the same financial trap on to them.
How unethical is that, @mtpennycook?
The Shared Owners' Network retweeted
The Remediation Bill, as it stands, will not deliver the change that shared owners need.
Over half of our members are trapped in the building safety crisis. Some are going bankrupt. We cannot support the Bill in its current form.
@AngelaRayner @mtpennycook @FloEshalomi
The Shared Owners' Network retweeted
The Remediation Bill is here.
We cannot support it in its current form.
Nearly a decade after Grenfell, innocent people are still paying for others’ failures.
Labour must turn words into action: make homes fully safe and hold those responsible to account.
Our statement ⬇️
The Shared Owners' Network retweeted
Every @mhclg minister: “Shared ownership has a role to play.”
👀 ‘Role’, explained:
The Shared Owners' Network retweeted
"Shared owners also reported “ignored emails, unanswered calls, and delayed or absent replies” to requests for repairs or documentation necessary to complete property sales."
This is me-trying to sell but struggling to get the documents I need.
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The Shared Owners' Network retweeted
86% of our members would not recommend shared ownership to friends or family.
This is a damning indictment of a scheme that is supposed to provide a route into homeownership, but has instead become an inescapable trap for too many.
@mtpennycook @AngelaRayner
"Shared owners also reported “ignored emails, unanswered calls, and delayed or absent replies” to requests for repairs or documentation necessary to complete property sales."
This is me-trying to sell but struggling to get the documents I need.
insidehousing.co.uk/news/new…
The Shared Owners' Network retweeted
🚨New findings from @LEASEonline Shared Ownership Insight Report reveal widespread concerns over rising service charges, repair disputes, building safety costs, lease extensions and difficulties selling homes.
Shared owners find themselves carrying many of the responsibilities of homeownership while having limited control over the decisions that affect their homes and finances.
#SharedOwnership #Trapped @SharedOwnersNet
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The Shared Owners' Network retweeted
"A spokesperson for the Shared Owners’ Network, a campaign group, said the report was “further evidence that the shared ownership scheme is failing many of the people it is supposed to help”.
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The Shared Owners' Network retweeted
#journorequest I'm looking to speak to people who are coming off their mortgage rate and going on to a higher one and struggling to cope with/dreading the higher bills for @theipaper
Please e-mail me at: [email protected] if this is you. Thanks