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The govt has promised to be a “cost of living government” but that means nothing if our rents & bills keep rising while landlords & private companies relentlessly profit. It’s time to take them on.
Bills are rising, so are we✊
Head to the link in our bio & join the fightback!
Thames Water is due to run out of money (again) over the next few weeks. A year and a half ago it was given a £3 billion bailout now it's asking for another £2.4 billion.
We really are being taken for mugs.
theguardian.com/business/202…
“A samurai sword, a meat cleaver and babies' passports are among the items seized in raids by illegal money lending investigators.”
This is the reality of debt in this country. Illegal loan sharks and “legitimate” bailiffs are 2 ends of the same problem. bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cgrl…
✍️ Write to your MP and tell them to attend the @RentersReformCo event on delivering renters rights in every home!👇
The Renters' Rights Act is at risk of being left in the past.
Make sure your MP doesn't let that happen.
It only takes a few minutes to write to your MP and ask them to attend our event on delivering renters' rights in every home 👇
actionnetwork.org/letters/te…
‼️ Politicians are meant to represent US. They seem to forget that. We took a trip to Parliament to remind them of that fact and put our demands to end to Cost of Living Crisis to them.
Check out our demands at the link in our bio.
🚨 We’re here at Parliament today taking our fight against the cost of living crisis directly to MPs.
Hundreds of members have travelled from all across the country to put our demands to their local MP.
This is our house. Time to make them remember that.
Rent controls save renters money. They save the government money.
The only people being protected by refusing to introduce them are landlords.
🆕 Research shows that rent caps could save the government £1.1bn by 2031.
Relinking Local Housing Allowance to real rents is expensive when rents spiral. But rent controls could slow inflation and reduce the cost of future LHA uplifts.
jrf.org.uk/housing/how-rent-… @jrf_uk
🔥 We took on four major water companies and won.
Last month, ACORN members occupied offices, blockaded roads and confronted water bosses over rising bills, debt and the use of bailiffs. In the weeks since, all four water companies targeted have come to the negotiating table.
It’s about time.
Grenfell wasn’t an accident, it was corporate manslaughter.
BREAKING: Prosecutors asked to consider manslaughter charges against firms and people over Grenfell fire news.sky.com/story/cps-asked…
“That was a brand new machine 6 years ago” so… not brand new then?
Tenant reported this morning that the washing machine is causing flood.
Is it just me or does that sound like a tenant problem, not a landlord problem? Honestly, people need to take responsibility. That was a brand new machine 6 years ago. Clearly putting too much heavy load or something…where do we draw the line?
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Section 21 may now be banned, but thousands of renters are still living with a last minute notice hanging over their heads
You can help keep people like Cai safe by joining us today
acorntheunion.org.uk/join
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That is, until ACORN sounded the alarm, scrambling members from across North Liverpool and Bootle, and forced the landlord to return possession. Our members then helped load the van, making sure everything and everyone was moved out safely 💪
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When Cai, the last housemate to leave, told the landlord his removal van would arrive an hour later than planned, the landlord changed the locks while Cai was out and refused to let him back in...
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Our member Cai and his housemates in Orrell Park were hit with a last minute Section 21 before they were banned in May, but we secured them £1000 each in compensation in exchange for moving out by today...
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Have you heard the one about the landlord who tried to illegally evict an ACORN member and reposses all their belongings, on the day they were due to move out anyway, for the sake of one single hour? 🧵
They can’t even do the bare minimum of keeping the water on while they’re lining their pockets.
BREAKING: Thames Water has said homes across five South London boroughs and two Surrey boroughs may have no water or low pressure.
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“62% of private renters receiving housing support have gone without food or heating in the past six months because they couldn’t afford them”
We need rent controls.
