News
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A step forward for England’s renters
The Government has laid out long awaited plans for rental reform in England in the ‘Fairer Private Rented Sector White Paper,’ marking a significant step forward in the fight for safe and secure housing for England’s renters… Headline changes include the scrapping of Section 21 ‘no fault’ evictions, bringing the legal standards for private homes
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Brighton Bans Second Homes
Following a successful campaign from ACORN members, last month Brighton Council became the first city to adopt a policy to ban second home ownership on new build properties. Brighton has for a long time been one of the least affordable cities for renters and home ownership is way out of reach for most working class
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Better Buses for Merseyside Win!
Victory in ACORN Liverpool’s first ever branch campaign – taking back the buses into public control… After fighting member defence cases and landlords across Merseyside, the Liverpool branch was looking for its first citywide campaign. We identified an opportunity to achieve a massive change in a short amount of time. We knew that Merseytravel were
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Better Renting For Brighton
Brighton rents are amongst the highest in the country, with half of renters in the region experiencing illegal activity from their landlord. ACORN Brighton members have been fighting against one of the most powerful landlord lobbies in the country, to force Brighton Council to invest over £200,000 to support renters in the city. ACORN have
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Buses for the people!
Months of campaigning alongside Better Buses for Greater Manchester and other groups recently delivered a victory for ACORN members and everyone involved in the campaign to bring Greater Manchester’s buses into public control, as Manchester council leaders voted nine to one in favour of bus franchising. The sole opposing voice was that of Bolton’s Conservative-led
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Coronavirus Community Support
Brighton members organised one of our biggest community support operations, managing a volunteer network of over 600 volunteers, who were delivering food, prescriptions and vital support to over 400 vulnerable households across the city, as well as setting up community food kitchens, and providing food for homelessness support organisations.
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Fight Against Fuel Poverty
Once a pioneering example of social housing, Park Hill flats were built for the people of Sheffield. In 2020 when corporate redevelopers Urban Splash hiked heating charges for all residents, at the height of the COVID-19 pandemic, it risked pricing ordinary people out of their homes. ACORN united the diversity of the new estate—social tenants,
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ACORN Stands With Key Workers
Last summer – during the worst public health crisis in living memory – a house of ACORN members, most of whom were key workers in the care sector, came to the union for help with a host of problems with their house, landlord, and letting agent. The group of four moved into their house in
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Member Defence & Community Solidarity
Damp, dangerous and unhealthy living conditions, eviction if you dare complain or the landlord wants you out to raise the rent or for no reason at all, repairs not made, deposits and rent stolen; the problems faced by tenants are well known. While fighting for the structural changes we need to tackle these problems on
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ACORN fights for affordable housing
ACORN members have been at the forefront of campaigns for genuinely affordable housing, fighting developers and holding politicians to account over quotas and running community campaigns for new developments to be accessible to members of the local community in which they’re built. We’ve uncovered plans of developers to raise the costs of living in areas