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Our amazing community came together, as PEACH, to fight back against one of the countries biggest social housing management firms, a private company called Mears which maintains 1 in 10 council properties in the UK.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">For five years, PEACH members &#8211; Mears Cats &#8211; campaigned and fought to break the Mears contract and get Newham council to take back control of properties in Custom House. In 2020, the council agreed to transfer MEARS tenants to Council tenancies, returning the properties to Council control and implementing a 60% rent reduction. 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