SLAPPs - Ben Jenkins vs. GreenSquareAccord
A housing association whose failures had already been upheld did not respond with reflection or reform. Instead, the response escalated: communication restrictions, legal threats, court action, and ultimately an arrest.
This is not about one resident. It is about what happens when accountability is replaced with control, and when raising legitimate concerns is met not with answers, but with pressure.
SLAPPs are not just a legal issue. In housing, they carry real consequences. When residents are silenced, problems do not disappear. They remain, often hidden, until they become something far more serious.
This is my experience, now raised in Parliament and recognised beyond it. The question is no longer whether this happened. The question is what the sector does about it.
Who Speaks for Residents? The Governance Dispute at Sir Thomas More Estate
A governance dispute at the Sir Thomas More Estate in Kensington and Chelsea has raised questions about the independence of residents’ associations during major works. With competing claims over leadership, control of communication channels, and concerns over consultation and safety oversight, the situation highlights a broader issue facing housing estates across the country: who ultimately decides who speaks for residents?
When Your Home’s Unsafe, Are the Problems Only Just Beginning?
Eight years after Grenfell, the list of unsafe buildings keeps growing. Thousands have already been evacuated — but how many more remain unsafe, unacknowledged, and unaddressed? In this week’s Housing Sector blog, I speak with Matt Hodges-Long of the Building Safety Register about the rising number of homes being declared uninhabitable, the residents left in limbo, and a government still downplaying the scale of the crisis.
The Messiah Complex, and the Missionary Position.
Does the housing sector have a ‘messiah complex’? Shared owner, Ben Jenkins, explains why he’s fed up with the missionary position…