Update: this mother was facing the prospect of street homelessness as her emergency accommodation booking was due to end today. An email from Harrow Healthy Homes, signed by Harrow renters, persuaded the council to extend the booking into the new year. Solidarity in action ✊

💰Due to delays to retrofit works, Harrow Council have made a £600 payment to cover winter fuel bills. 😡BUT they've excluded tenants who aren't part of the legal claim. ✏️We've written to the Council to make it clear we ALL deserve to be able to heat our homes this winter.

📢 85,000 children in London are currently living in insecure temporary accommodation 📢 That’s essentially one child in every classroom. Use this guide challenge estate demolition with hard facts 👉  pilc.org.uk/publications/w…

🥶 Near freezing temperatures won't stop up knocking on doors. 🔧 This morning we spoke to Harrow Council tenants about repairs contractor United Living. 🙄 We heard the usual stories of incompetence and unnecessary repeat visits. 💰 Is this service really worth £40 million?

👇 This is a great opportunity to take your housing policy skills to the next level. Knowledge is power!

Amazing news from Bancroft Gardens, where works have now started to insulate these council homes. The issues with these properties had been known about for decades, but it was only when tenants got organised that Harrow Council finally committed to retrofitting them.

SHAC (& our members) in the News Thanks Jon Ungoed-Thomas The Observer for working with SHAC on their major exposé of service charge abuse this weekend. theguardian.com/society/2025/m… It covers many aspects of the scandal, including how landlords leap into action if people stop

NEW: 68% of UK health workers say high energy bills contribute to avoidable hospital admissions. Our research in partnership with Warm This Winter shows 45% have sent patients home knowing that their housing situation would make them ill again.

🤒 Medact's new report confirms what many tenants know from experience: poor housing conditions are harming our health. 👊 The solution: build good-quality council homes, create mass retrofit programme, enforce Decent Homes Standard, implement rent controls