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.
Service Charge -Breaking Point.
In recent years, the issue of service charges has become an increasingly contentious topic. Across the UK, housing associations are steadily raising these charges, putting a severe financial strain on residents. What was once deemed "affordable housing" is, for many, becoming anything but affordable. This shift affects a wide range of people—leaseholders, shared owners, and those relying on universal credit or housing benefits to cover rising costs.