🚨The rent strike in ON. 🚨 Solidarity with our members in Bradford standing strong and starting their rent strike! ✊ After repeatedly raising concerns about conditions in their building, residents are turning up the pressure. When tenants stand together, they’re impossible to ignore.

☀️ Britain is getting hotter every year and renters are being trapped in homes that are impossible to cool. By 2050, 92% of UK homes are expected to overheat, yet landlords are still allowed to do the bare minimum while tenants are left to suffer through dangerous heat indoors.

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The rich get richer and the poor get poorer.

No matter who’s in power, organised people are the force that wins change. That’s why we stand with our neighbours, fight for our communities and make sure those in power are held to account. Get organised with ACORN. 👇 acorntheunion.org.uk/join/

More and more working class people are being forced to choose between paying rent and putting food on the table, while corporations continue to profit from crisis after crisis. We can’t afford to keep living like this. The only answer is collective power. Join us! 👇 acorntheunion.org.uk/join/

🚨 The Renters’ Rights Act comes into force tomorrow. It’s a set of new laws designed to rebalance power between tenants and landlords, making things more secure, more stable, and fairer for England’s 12 million renters. Here are some of the highlights:

Only 5 directors of water companies have been prosecuted for their crimes in the last 30 years. They can poison rivers for years and walk away. But fall behind on a payment and it’s bailiffs at your door. Impunity for them. Enforcement for us.

Candidates from across Wales have backed ACORN's People's Platform🔥 This is an an opportunity for accountability - the promises candidates make now are the changes we expect to see if they win the election. If you don't see your candidate, drop them a line and ask them to support a fairer Wales! 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿

In 2023-24, private renters on the lowest incomes in this country spent on average 63% of their income on rent, leaving them with less than half to live on just to pay their landlord. This is what happens when housing is treated as a profit machine. It’s indefensible.

🚨 Renters, know your rights! You cannot be refused a home for being on benefits or having children. These upcoming protections apply across the entire renting process.

🚨Renters, know your rights! New enforcement rules in the RRA give you more support. This is a brief overview of key changes in the new legislation. To see the changes in full, and how they will apply to you you can go to www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2025/2...

Creeping privatisation is destroying our NHS while lining the pockets of the wealthy. We need to kick these vultures out of our healthcare service and bring it back in house.

🚨 Renters, know your rights! The new rules on rent increases mean increases will be limited to once per year and must be carried out through the correct legal procedure, with at least 2 months’ notice. If you believe an increase in unfair, you have the right to challenge it at a tribunal.

🚨Renters, know your rights! The upcoming end of fixed term contracts means more security and control for tenants. Your home won’t just come with an expiry date anymore.

Housing campaigner Martin Mawdsley says the UK needs rent controls @acornunion.bsky.social leftfootforward.org/2026/04/hous...

🚨 Renters, know your rights! With the end of Section 21 coming up soon, it’s important to know where you stand so your landlord can’t try to use a lack of knowledge to force you out of your home.

Rent freeze in Spain. Free public transport in Victoria and Tasmania. All while our rents are skyrocketing and public transport costs are going through the roof. It’s not good enough.

Join us for our second LFF Live event! We'll be discussing renters' rights with @acornunion.bsky.social branch secretary Martin Mawdsley, ahead of the new Renters Rights' Act coming into force. Sign up to join us on Zoom on 1 April @ 6pm: www.eventbrite.com/e/lff-live-w...

Appreciation for hospital appointment letters arriving after the date? Bills landing after the deadline? Stamp prices going up again? Privatisation has benefited no one but billionaire owners and shareholders. Put it back in public hands where it belongs.

One in 20 councils threaten prison in their very first letter after you miss just one payment. It’s indefensible. Council tax is the most regressive and unjust tax in our country, hitting the poorest hardest. It should be scrapped, not enforced with threats of prison.

📈 More and more people are falling behind on essentials: council tax, rent and energy bills in particular. ACORN is fighting back against the cost of living crisis: for dignity, not debt for our families, our communities, our country. 👉 Join us! acorntheunion.org.uk/join

🚨 Tenants of The Poppy Factory are facing rent hikes of up to £800. Blaming the Renters’ Rights Act is a disgraceful excuse. These unnecessary hikes will only force people out of their homes and onto the streets. Tell The Poppy Factory to scrap them👇 acornuk.good.do/london/pfsto...

While Britain’s water companies contaminate our rivers with sewage, make people ill and jack up our bills, foreign private equity is stepping in to profit. Privatisation has failed. Water, wind and rail carved up and sold off. All so offshore investors can gain at our expense.

A fee to access rent tribunals would be nothing short of a direct attack on renters. It will make it harder to challenge unfair rent hikes and create the perfect loophole for landlords to push tenants out with huge increases. Renters shouldn’t have to pay to defend their homes.

🔥 ACORN is building a movement that is fighting and winning for our communities and our class. If you want to fight back, join ACORN today. 🔗 acorntheunion.org.uk/join

South West Water has admitted supplying water unfit for human consumption after an outbreak of cryptosporidiosis, with 143 people confirmed to have caught the waterborne disease. All this after SWW told people the water was safe to drink. Parasites spreading parasites.

Criminal. Youth homelessness rising again. This year we also saw more pensioners facing homelessness than ever. If you can’t afford a home at the start of your life, at the end of it, or anywhere in between, that is the design of a housing system we must refuse to accept.

It has been a busy few weeks for ACORN groups and branches across the country, including a massive win from ACORN Preston! (🧵)

Thames Water has polluted for 80,000 hours in just the first six weeks of 2026. 75% more than this time last year. It’s time to kick out these profiteers that are lining their pockets at our expense, and bring water back into public hands💧

The Government’s draconian proscription of Palestine Action has lead to the arrest of nearly 3000 people. This ruling is a victory for all those wrongfully arrested, and all those who have stood up to make their voice heard in opposition to Israel’s genocide in Palestine.

As wealth like Jim Ratcliffe’s concentrates at the top and the rest of us feel the squeeze, they expect us to blame ordinary people instead of billionaires like them.

Rents rise. Bills rise. Food prices rise. Profits rise. But it’s wages that remain frozen. We’re told to tighten our belts whilst those at the top tighten their grip. This is the result of wealth being funnelled upwards and working people are paying for it.

Britain’s housing crisis didn’t happen by accident. One policy shaped it, and we’re still living with the consequences today. Watch to understand why Right to Buy has to go. 👇

📈 For years rents have been rising, with the average British renter now spending more than 40% of their income on a roof over their head, and much more in places such as London. It’s no wonder that the majority of people support measures to stop runaway rents!

Dystopian. There is no reason for landlords to be remotely controlling the heating in their tenants homes. This is a consequence of treating housing as a financial asset to line pockets, rather than as somewhere for people to actually LIVE.

No heating, no hot water, dangerous conditions. All while Harris was lining his pockets at his tenants expense. Reform claim to be a break from the establishment but they're the same corrupt, self serving politicians who have been selling our country down the river for years.

The people who tell you we don’t need rent controls are the same people lining their pockets from charging over £1000 a month to live in a kitchen.

This delay lets landlords get away with forcing kids to grow up with mould, forcing families to ration heat in cold, inefficient homes and forcing renters to live in fear of retaliation for complaining. A decent home is the absolute bare minimum. Delaying it is indefensible.

ACORN Lambeth making our demands for a Bailiff Free Britain clear 💪

No, but building social housing at scale, rent controls and prioritising tenants’ right to a home over landlords’ pockets might.

1 in 5 adults in the UK are living in poverty. Meanwhile, we entered the year with a record number of billionaires. None of this is inevitable. It’s a political choice we must refuse to accept.

A record number of children are living in temporary accommodation. Teachers are being forced to pick up the slack for a housing crisis created in Westminster.

But the landlord lobby said the Renters’ Rights Act would destroy housing stock… it’s almost like they were just trying to protect their own pockets!

This cannot continue. We need a complete overhaul of the current housing system that runs down, sells off and rations social housing, leaving those on the lowest incomes to pay the price.

Private water companies are lining their pockets while providing abysmal service, dumping raw sewage into our rivers and seas, and letting infrastructure rot. Nationalise the lot.

The rich get richer. That wealth buys them political influence. The poor get poorer. It’s us vs them. It’s class war. Simple as.

300,000 complaints from tenants living in unfit homes in 3 years. Just 64 prosecutions. 50% of local authorities responsible for housing did not fine a single landlord, and over 1/3 did not issue any formal action against people letting out homes unlawfully. Disgraceful.

Do landlords ever stop crying? The entire housing system in this country is designed to line the pockets of these people, they’ve had it all their way for decades. Yet they never seem to stop moaning.