The Shared Owners' Network
@sharedownersnet.bsky.social
Uniting shared owners.
We campaign to make our homes affordable & our landlords accountable.
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January 23, 2026 at 6:24 PM
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January 23, 2026 at 6:24 PM
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Great question!
🔴 BUYBACKS
An excellent question from @ruthcadbury.bsky.social
❌ Minister @samanthadixonmp.bsky.social responds… but not to the question asked.
Instead, we get a copy-paste statement that will infuriate many shared owners.
🖇️ Link in next post
An excellent question from @ruthcadbury.bsky.social
❌ Minister @samanthadixonmp.bsky.social responds… but not to the question asked.
Instead, we get a copy-paste statement that will infuriate many shared owners.
🖇️ Link in next post
January 23, 2026 at 4:26 PM
Great question!
🔴 BUYBACKS
An excellent question from @ruthcadbury.bsky.social
❌ Minister @samanthadixonmp.bsky.social responds… but not to the question asked.
Instead, we get a copy-paste statement that will infuriate many shared owners.
🖇️ Link in next post
An excellent question from @ruthcadbury.bsky.social
❌ Minister @samanthadixonmp.bsky.social responds… but not to the question asked.
Instead, we get a copy-paste statement that will infuriate many shared owners.
🖇️ Link in next post
January 23, 2026 at 4:23 PM
🔴 BUYBACKS
An excellent question from @ruthcadbury.bsky.social
❌ Minister @samanthadixonmp.bsky.social responds… but not to the question asked.
Instead, we get a copy-paste statement that will infuriate many shared owners.
🖇️ Link in next post
An excellent question from @ruthcadbury.bsky.social
❌ Minister @samanthadixonmp.bsky.social responds… but not to the question asked.
Instead, we get a copy-paste statement that will infuriate many shared owners.
🖇️ Link in next post
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#SharedOwnership
#UKhousing
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January 17, 2026 at 5:17 PM
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I expected so much more of a @teamlabouruk.bsky.social government. We’re still stuck in our unsellable, unmortgageable flat in Hackney with no end in sight. #claddingscandal
January 21, 2026 at 8:18 PM
I expected so much more of a @teamlabouruk.bsky.social government. We’re still stuck in our unsellable, unmortgageable flat in Hackney with no end in sight. #claddingscandal
These are vital questions.
Every day, we receive new emails from shared owners whose lives have been torn apart by the building safety crisis.
🚫 The response from Minister @samanthadixonmp.bsky.social is particularly shocking.
🖇️ Link in next post.
Every day, we receive new emails from shared owners whose lives have been torn apart by the building safety crisis.
🚫 The response from Minister @samanthadixonmp.bsky.social is particularly shocking.
🖇️ Link in next post.
January 21, 2026 at 6:52 PM
These are vital questions.
Every day, we receive new emails from shared owners whose lives have been torn apart by the building safety crisis.
🚫 The response from Minister @samanthadixonmp.bsky.social is particularly shocking.
🖇️ Link in next post.
Every day, we receive new emails from shared owners whose lives have been torn apart by the building safety crisis.
🚫 The response from Minister @samanthadixonmp.bsky.social is particularly shocking.
🖇️ Link in next post.
Are you a shared owner?
Join us to get our email updates. See link in bio.
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#SharedOwnership
#UKhousing
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January 17, 2026 at 5:17 PM
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Will there be meaningful change on the key issues of non-cladding defects, non-qualifying leaseholders, extortionate buildings insurance or shared ownership buybacks in 2026?
We aren’t holding our breath.
#BuildingSafetyCrisis
We aren’t holding our breath.
#BuildingSafetyCrisis
January 8, 2026 at 9:01 AM
Will there be meaningful change on the key issues of non-cladding defects, non-qualifying leaseholders, extortionate buildings insurance or shared ownership buybacks in 2026?
We aren’t holding our breath.
#BuildingSafetyCrisis
We aren’t holding our breath.
#BuildingSafetyCrisis
📤 Our next email update will focus on subletting and buybacks.
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December 23, 2025 at 8:49 PM
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Today we met with Building Safety Minister @samanthadixonmp.bsky.social
We requested:
👉 better information on gov.uk for shared owners impacted by the building safety crisis
👉 a rethink of the RICS valuation system for resales
👉 a buyback scheme for unsellable flats.
We requested:
👉 better information on gov.uk for shared owners impacted by the building safety crisis
👉 a rethink of the RICS valuation system for resales
👉 a buyback scheme for unsellable flats.
December 1, 2025 at 4:27 PM
Today we met with Building Safety Minister @samanthadixonmp.bsky.social
We requested:
👉 better information on gov.uk for shared owners impacted by the building safety crisis
👉 a rethink of the RICS valuation system for resales
👉 a buyback scheme for unsellable flats.
We requested:
👉 better information on gov.uk for shared owners impacted by the building safety crisis
👉 a rethink of the RICS valuation system for resales
👉 a buyback scheme for unsellable flats.
🚨 Shared owners 🚨
What changes do you want to see❔
Buybacks❔
Affordable service charges❔
Something else❔
Today is your LAST CHANCE to tell Committee MPs in a short survey.
Results will feed into their report to the Govt.
🗓️ Deadline: 29/11
🔗 forms.office.com/e/kA1tD0R1Me
What changes do you want to see❔
Buybacks❔
Affordable service charges❔
Something else❔
Today is your LAST CHANCE to tell Committee MPs in a short survey.
Results will feed into their report to the Govt.
🗓️ Deadline: 29/11
🔗 forms.office.com/e/kA1tD0R1Me
Microsoft Forms
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November 29, 2025 at 4:02 PM
🚨 Shared owners 🚨
What changes do you want to see❔
Buybacks❔
Affordable service charges❔
Something else❔
Today is your LAST CHANCE to tell Committee MPs in a short survey.
Results will feed into their report to the Govt.
🗓️ Deadline: 29/11
🔗 forms.office.com/e/kA1tD0R1Me
What changes do you want to see❔
Buybacks❔
Affordable service charges❔
Something else❔
Today is your LAST CHANCE to tell Committee MPs in a short survey.
Results will feed into their report to the Govt.
🗓️ Deadline: 29/11
🔗 forms.office.com/e/kA1tD0R1Me
🚫 Too many shared owners are trapped in homes they can no longer afford, with no viable exit route.
Grateful to Select Committee Chair Florence Eshalomi for asking Housing Secretary Steve Reed MP about the long-term affordability of shared ownership.
#UKhousing
#SharedOwnership
Grateful to Select Committee Chair Florence Eshalomi for asking Housing Secretary Steve Reed MP about the long-term affordability of shared ownership.
#UKhousing
#SharedOwnership
November 11, 2025 at 6:35 PM
🚫 Too many shared owners are trapped in homes they can no longer afford, with no viable exit route.
Grateful to Select Committee Chair Florence Eshalomi for asking Housing Secretary Steve Reed MP about the long-term affordability of shared ownership.
#UKhousing
#SharedOwnership
Grateful to Select Committee Chair Florence Eshalomi for asking Housing Secretary Steve Reed MP about the long-term affordability of shared ownership.
#UKhousing
#SharedOwnership
🗨️ Baroness Thornhill:
"I was obviously aware of the issues around shared ownership, but what shocked me was the actual costs incurred and the amounts of money lost"
Why is shared ownership marketed as affordable housing? Where is the evidence?
"I was obviously aware of the issues around shared ownership, but what shocked me was the actual costs incurred and the amounts of money lost"
Why is shared ownership marketed as affordable housing? Where is the evidence?
November 10, 2025 at 9:25 AM
🗨️ Baroness Thornhill:
"I was obviously aware of the issues around shared ownership, but what shocked me was the actual costs incurred and the amounts of money lost"
Why is shared ownership marketed as affordable housing? Where is the evidence?
"I was obviously aware of the issues around shared ownership, but what shocked me was the actual costs incurred and the amounts of money lost"
Why is shared ownership marketed as affordable housing? Where is the evidence?
🗨️ "They really are the raw end of the market. They get a raw deal in many different ways"
Baroness Thornhill is right.
❌ Far too many shared owners are trapped in properties they can't sell and can no longer afford.
👉 It is time for the Government to fund buybacks.
Baroness Thornhill is right.
❌ Far too many shared owners are trapped in properties they can't sell and can no longer afford.
👉 It is time for the Government to fund buybacks.
November 9, 2025 at 8:21 AM
🗨️ "They really are the raw end of the market. They get a raw deal in many different ways"
Baroness Thornhill is right.
❌ Far too many shared owners are trapped in properties they can't sell and can no longer afford.
👉 It is time for the Government to fund buybacks.
Baroness Thornhill is right.
❌ Far too many shared owners are trapped in properties they can't sell and can no longer afford.
👉 It is time for the Government to fund buybacks.
A shared owner wrote to the Committee about the financial & emotional impact of trying to sell their flat.
🖋️ "This case is not unique. It highlights systemic failings within shared ownership."
@matthewpennycookmp.bsky.social shared owners need buybacks and a statutory right to exit the scheme.
🖋️ "This case is not unique. It highlights systemic failings within shared ownership."
@matthewpennycookmp.bsky.social shared owners need buybacks and a statutory right to exit the scheme.
October 28, 2025 at 8:26 AM
A shared owner wrote to the Committee about the financial & emotional impact of trying to sell their flat.
🖋️ "This case is not unique. It highlights systemic failings within shared ownership."
@matthewpennycookmp.bsky.social shared owners need buybacks and a statutory right to exit the scheme.
🖋️ "This case is not unique. It highlights systemic failings within shared ownership."
@matthewpennycookmp.bsky.social shared owners need buybacks and a statutory right to exit the scheme.
🚨 Association of Mortgage Intermediaries warning about shared ownership:
"While the model is designed to reduce entry costs by allowing buyers to purchase a share of a property and pay rent on the remainder, the overall affordability is often questionable."
#mortgages
#SharedOwnership
"While the model is designed to reduce entry costs by allowing buyers to purchase a share of a property and pay rent on the remainder, the overall affordability is often questionable."
#mortgages
#SharedOwnership
October 26, 2025 at 8:59 AM
🚨 Association of Mortgage Intermediaries warning about shared ownership:
"While the model is designed to reduce entry costs by allowing buyers to purchase a share of a property and pay rent on the remainder, the overall affordability is often questionable."
#mortgages
#SharedOwnership
"While the model is designed to reduce entry costs by allowing buyers to purchase a share of a property and pay rent on the remainder, the overall affordability is often questionable."
#mortgages
#SharedOwnership
🖋️ "Shared Ownership, as it currently exists, is not a genuinely affordable or secure route to home ownership. It has been marketed as a stepping stone but has in practice become a trap for many people like me."
Written evidence submitted to the Housing Committee.
Written evidence submitted to the Housing Committee.
October 25, 2025 at 7:54 AM
🖋️ "Shared Ownership, as it currently exists, is not a genuinely affordable or secure route to home ownership. It has been marketed as a stepping stone but has in practice become a trap for many people like me."
Written evidence submitted to the Housing Committee.
Written evidence submitted to the Housing Committee.
Affordability of Home Ownership inquiry
🆕 Our written evidence to the House of Commons Housing Committee inquiry has been published.
#SharedOwnership
committees.parliament.uk/writtenevide...
🆕 Our written evidence to the House of Commons Housing Committee inquiry has been published.
#SharedOwnership
committees.parliament.uk/writtenevide...
committees.parliament.uk
October 23, 2025 at 6:27 PM
Affordability of Home Ownership inquiry
🆕 Our written evidence to the House of Commons Housing Committee inquiry has been published.
#SharedOwnership
committees.parliament.uk/writtenevide...
🆕 Our written evidence to the House of Commons Housing Committee inquiry has been published.
#SharedOwnership
committees.parliament.uk/writtenevide...
Shared owners who sublet will not be penalised if their sale falls through.
But the Govt must do more to help victims of the building safety crisis. This should include changes to unfair RICS valuation rules and funding for buybacks of unsaleable flats.
www.insidehousing.co.uk/home/shared-...
But the Govt must do more to help victims of the building safety crisis. This should include changes to unfair RICS valuation rules and funding for buybacks of unsaleable flats.
www.insidehousing.co.uk/home/shared-...
Shared owners exempt from 12-month ban on re-letting homes after eviction
Shared owners will be exempt under the Renters’ Rights Bill that will ban landlords from re-letting a property for a certain period after evicting a tenant.
www.insidehousing.co.uk
October 22, 2025 at 4:51 PM
Shared owners who sublet will not be penalised if their sale falls through.
But the Govt must do more to help victims of the building safety crisis. This should include changes to unfair RICS valuation rules and funding for buybacks of unsaleable flats.
www.insidehousing.co.uk/home/shared-...
But the Govt must do more to help victims of the building safety crisis. This should include changes to unfair RICS valuation rules and funding for buybacks of unsaleable flats.
www.insidehousing.co.uk/home/shared-...
📤 Our next email update will focus on subletting and buybacks.
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October 22, 2025 at 9:39 AM
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📢 SHARED OWNERS
Issues with resales, staircasing, lease extensions, subletting, valuations, or anything else?
👉 Write to the Government.
Use their online form ⤵️
www.gov.uk/guidance/con...
Issues with resales, staircasing, lease extensions, subletting, valuations, or anything else?
👉 Write to the Government.
Use their online form ⤵️
www.gov.uk/guidance/con...
Contact the Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government
Use this form to send a message to the Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government.
www.gov.uk
October 17, 2025 at 7:03 PM
📢 SHARED OWNERS
Issues with resales, staircasing, lease extensions, subletting, valuations, or anything else?
👉 Write to the Government.
Use their online form ⤵️
www.gov.uk/guidance/con...
Issues with resales, staircasing, lease extensions, subletting, valuations, or anything else?
👉 Write to the Government.
Use their online form ⤵️
www.gov.uk/guidance/con...
We look forward to meeting Steve Reed MP and @samanthadixonmp.bsky.social today.
Much more needs to be done to support shared owners trapped in the building safety crisis.
Much more needs to be done to support shared owners trapped in the building safety crisis.
We're meeting Steve Reed MP and @samanthadixonmp.bsky.social today.
The last 15 months have seen no real progress.
Accelerating remediation means little without resolving the issues. Their plans will do nothing to help people any time soon.
Labour must do much more to keep its promises.
The last 15 months have seen no real progress.
Accelerating remediation means little without resolving the issues. Their plans will do nothing to help people any time soon.
Labour must do much more to keep its promises.
October 16, 2025 at 8:32 AM
We look forward to meeting Steve Reed MP and @samanthadixonmp.bsky.social today.
Much more needs to be done to support shared owners trapped in the building safety crisis.
Much more needs to be done to support shared owners trapped in the building safety crisis.
🆕 BREAKING NEWS
We won❗🎉
The Government has finally accepted Lord Young's amendment to the Renters' Rights Bill.
Shared owners who are accidental landlords will be exempt from the 12-month ban on reletting if their sale falls through.
#BuildingSafetyCrisis
We won❗🎉
The Government has finally accepted Lord Young's amendment to the Renters' Rights Bill.
Shared owners who are accidental landlords will be exempt from the 12-month ban on reletting if their sale falls through.
#BuildingSafetyCrisis
October 14, 2025 at 5:59 PM
🆕 BREAKING NEWS
We won❗🎉
The Government has finally accepted Lord Young's amendment to the Renters' Rights Bill.
Shared owners who are accidental landlords will be exempt from the 12-month ban on reletting if their sale falls through.
#BuildingSafetyCrisis
We won❗🎉
The Government has finally accepted Lord Young's amendment to the Renters' Rights Bill.
Shared owners who are accidental landlords will be exempt from the 12-month ban on reletting if their sale falls through.
#BuildingSafetyCrisis
🗓️ The Renters' Rights Bill will be back in the House of Lords on 14 October.
Lord Young of Cookham has again tabled an amendment to protect shared owners who are accidental landlords because of the building safety crisis.
This is what the Minister said in Parliament last month.
Lord Young of Cookham has again tabled an amendment to protect shared owners who are accidental landlords because of the building safety crisis.
This is what the Minister said in Parliament last month.
October 12, 2025 at 8:38 AM
🗓️ The Renters' Rights Bill will be back in the House of Lords on 14 October.
Lord Young of Cookham has again tabled an amendment to protect shared owners who are accidental landlords because of the building safety crisis.
This is what the Minister said in Parliament last month.
Lord Young of Cookham has again tabled an amendment to protect shared owners who are accidental landlords because of the building safety crisis.
This is what the Minister said in Parliament last month.