@joekiggins
Joined February 2022
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Direct action WINS again! After being told L&Q "couldn't give us a date" for repairs, we kept up the pressure until they agreed to send the surveying team out within DAYS to get our doors and windows repaired at Primrose E9 😎💪 The tenants united, will never be defeated! 🚩🚩
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Local business owner says she's lost £40,000 due to "factory farming crackdown"
Edinburgh Live
@EdinburghLive_19 Aug 2024
Edinburgh landlord says he's lost £40,000 due to 'short term lets crackdown' edinburghlive.co.uk/news/edi… edinburghlive.co.uk/news/edi…

Edinburgh landlord says he's lost £40,000 due to 'short term lets crackdown'

Craig Douglas owns Coast Properties and says the clampdown on short-term lets has left landlords "exhausted."

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As calls for controls on rents become stronger, the attacks on the policy are intensifying. Even as rents continue to outstrip wage growth, the Institute for Economic Affairs (IEA) has put out claims to oppose the policy. They are wrong, and here's why... 🏘️🧵[1/9]
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Huge news!
ACORN the union
@ACORNunion23 May 2024
🚨 Campaign Win! 🚨 We’re delighted to announce that following ACORN’s day of action on Saturday, TSB have agreed to drop a rule in their buy-to-let mortgage policy that causes insecurity for renters!
The word WIN with a background collage of ACORN members, in red and holding banners reading Homes for All, at the recent day of action at TSB branches

ALT The word WIN with a background collage of ACORN members, in red and holding banners reading Homes for All, at the recent day of action at TSB branches

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🚨RENTERS VS THE BANKS🚨 TSB are creating rental insecurity. Their Buy-to-Let mortgage terms mean that tenants cannot be offered contracts of longer than one year. Today we're taking action at TSB branches across England and Wales demanding they change this policy!
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⛔️ Today, we occupied 30 branches of @TSB across England and Wales. Here’s why👇
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How it started vs How it went 🎉 🚨Eviction win! @AcornIslington successfully resisted our members high-court eviction this morning - and how fitting on @ACORNunion 10th anniversary 🥳
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⏰24 hours left for London Mayoral Candidates to back our pledges - then we'll be emailing thousands of members and supporters across London who backed what pledges! You can help by sending an email using the link below acornuk.good.do/london/londo…
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Packed house at our Save Ealing Caroline meeting. Several councillors for all parties here to listen to residents concerns about Ealing Councils decision to remove their Careline service
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The first person ever to run the entire length of Africa. Mission complete🫡 – at Tunisia
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On Monday 19th February the world lost Louie Herbert - a dear friend and comrade and a founding member of ACORN - following a short illness. It’s fair to say that there wouldn’t be ACORN as we know it today without Louie. He was there from the very inception in 2013, busy setting up the structures, office space and securing the funding needed to get things moving.
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You're perhaps the most dense journo, London has over 30,000 homes empty "long-term". Billionaire investment portfolios treat our city like a playground, practically printing cash keeping homes empty as the line goes up. We should tax them out of existence.
Tom Harwood
@tomhfh3 Mar 2024
London is perhaps the least dense major city in the world. And that makes its housing among the most expensive. The only way is up. Central London should be seven to ten storeys standard - like Paris.
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today the @HouseofCommons events team said they had nowhere I could go to express breastmilk because they are ‘not a modern event space’
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“[ACORN] made me feel powerful, made me feel that I can be heard” Listen to ACORN Hackney member, Sandy, speak about her member defence case and how we took action together as a community union ⬇️⬇️ fb.watch/qsES922PPW/

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“[ACORN] made me feel powerful, made me feel that I can be heard” Listen to ACORN Hackney member, Sandy, speak about her member defence case and how we took action together as a community union 💪 💪

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Guardian news
@guardiannews15 Feb 2024
British Gas profits leap from £72m to £751m in a year dlvr.it/T2n2Q0

British Gas profits leap from £72m to £751m in a year

Unite union says UK energy supplier’s bumper results ‘come off the back of exorbitant energy bills’

theguardian.com
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Interesting - a former No. 10 adviser admits she blocked the Renters (Reform) Bill while in Downing St. This is what we housing campaigners have been up against - there are parts of the Conservative Party that just do not believe in additional protections for renters.
Jennifer Powers
@Power_Jen11 Feb 2024
I blocked it for short-time I was in No.10 but alas it lives on. Landlords are leaving the market, and who can blame them.
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Something special is happening in north london... We've had enough of low-quality housing, dodgy landlords running free, and evictions on the rise, so we're standing up for ourselves, getting organised, and fighting back for what's ours. And we're winning big. Find out how👇
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Happy national Muay Thai day to everyone apart from bailiffs and landlords x
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Proof council leaders have concealed the truth about how long they've known about dangers at Barton House! After a question by ACORN member Andy Watt, they've revealed structural issues were known in August 2022. @MarvinJRees gambled with residents lives bristolpost.co.uk/news/brist…

Structural issues at Barton House were flagged in 2022

The council knew about structural issues but chose not to evacuate the tower block until well over a year later

bristolpost.co.uk
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This is what politicians & journos fail to understand about ACORN. We aren't kindhearted do-gooders helping people out, we're working class people standing up for ourselves. Viv got harrassed by bailiffs, so she led & won a campaign to get rid of them. Because she's ACORN.
ACORN the union
@ACORNunion31 Jan 2024
23,000 low income households in Manchester will no longer be chased for council tax debts by bailiffs thanks to a huge campaign by ACORN members and our friends at @debtjustice👊
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