Category: Renting
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Bristol Big Housing Conversations
Responding to the demands of Bristol renters organised by ACORN and the overall housing crisis facing the city, we were invited by Mayor Marvin Rees to partner with the Council in the delivery of these historic renters forums and help shape local housing policy. Across several events and for the first time ever, hundreds of
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Bristol Council House Sell Off
Heading into the Bristol Mayoral election in 2016, ACORN members organised demonstrations against the proposed sell off of council housing when 16,000 people were on the waiting list. While we were too late to stop the auction we successfully negotiated with then-Mayor George Ferguson that all money from the sale would go to new social
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Bristol Needs A Mayor for Homes
Heading into the 2016 Mayoral election, a response to the housing crisis was top of the agenda. This was in large part to the campaigning efforts of ACORN members for the previous two years in which we used direct action to stop revenge evictions, win repairs and deposit repayments, halted the auctioning off of council