“Private renters’ debt is on average over £4,000.” That’s a generation pushed into debt just to keep a roof over their heads. The only way we guarantee affordable rents is by dismantling the current system that exists only to enrich landlords and investors at our expense.

Rent is skyrocketing in the lead up to Christmas & deposit demands are through the roof. This is hitting Wales particularly hard. It’s time to fight back. That’s why we recently held our first ever All Wales ACORN meeting, bringing members from all across the country together.

Spot on. Cherry picked data claiming that housing is getting more affordable simply doesn’t line up with reality. And we all know it!

🚨 8 POLICE SENT TO EVICT A FATHER AND HIS CHILDREN Disgracefully, Islington Council sent 8 police officers to evict member Richard and his two young children today. Demand this decision is reversed and that this family is not homeless for Christmas below!👇 acornuk.good.do/london/stop-...

🇵🇸 The largest political hunger strike in decades is unfolding right now. Take action here👇 tinyurl.com/y7a79ym6

It’s no surprise that Labour are struggling to meet these targets when they’ve put housing in the hands of developers. But even if this target is hit, it’s not enough. We don’t just need housing for housing sake, we need truly affordable housing.

Yesterday ACORN Birmingham members took the Bailiff Free Britain campaign to the council. Join the fight back against bully bailiffs 👇 acorntheunion.org.uk/bailiffs/

🔥 Last month we launched our national Bailiff Free Britain campaign. This month we’ve taken it on the road, with actions all across England and Wales and more yet to come! If you want to join the fight, then join ACORN today!

🏡 High quality, affordable public housing isn’t a fantasy. Vienna is proof of that. It’s time we did the same.

(🧵) Our council tax system is broken. It’s time to change that. In the budget, Rachel Reeves has the chance to build a fairer system that ensures dignity, not debt. 🔗 Write to your MP and tell them to back our campaign: acornuk.good.do/englandcampa...

Council tax isn't just economically outdated, this broken system is hurting our communities. We need council tax reform to counter the growing crisis in council tax debt that is affecting 4 million+ households. Tell your MP to support our campaign: 🔗 acornuk.good.do/englandcampa...

🚨 Successful eviction resistance from ACORN Leeds! Our member, Evie, has been mistreated by her landlord and threatened with eviction multiple time. But yesterday the bailiffs came for real. Thankfully, bailiffs are no match for an organised community💪

📣 Starting tomorrow, half price comedy tickets in Clapham all week! The Good Landlord is a hilarious new dark comedy play about renting. Use code ‘RENT’ for 50% off tickets here👇 linktr.ee/poundroadpro...

ACORN members Kathryn and Tony were told they couldn't have just FOUR more days in their home before their new place was ready. They were told a bailiff was coming to turf them out, but we were never going to let that happen. There’s power in community, become a member today!

🚨 The bulk of the Renters’ Rights Act will will come into force on the 1st of May (🧵)

We’re here in Brussels at the ACORN International yearly conference! Affiliates from Palestine to Cameroon, Canada to Sicily, have come together to learn from each other and share our skills and experience to build ACORN across the world. Our struggle is global🌍

This campaign isn’t just about bailiffs. It’s about changing the entire council tax system. With the budget coming up, now is the time to write to your MP now and demand that they put pressure on Rachel Reeves to rchange this broken system! 🔗 acornuk.good.do/englandcampa...

🎥 Great coverage from @itvnews.bsky.social on the fight for a fairer council tax system. 🔗 Watch the full report here: www.itv.com/news/granada...

Sick of housing horror stories? You know what to do🎃 🔗 acorntheunion.org.uk/join

🚨 The Renters’ Rights Bill has now received Royal Assent. From ACORN's very first meeting in Bristol over a decade ago, we identified ending unfair evictions as a key demand for our campaigning and a key wrong to right for our class.

Today Awaab’s Law comes into effect. But across the country, damp and mouldy homes are plaguing private renters. The government needs to announce the date for this law to be extended to the private sector immediately.

🔥 Last week we shut down a conference where bailiffs come together and discuss how best to line their pockets at our expense. We then moved on to Leeds City Hall & occupied the lobby there.

🚨 This is a huge victory for the organised tenant movement after YEARS of organising. We need to go further, and we’ll keep fighting for more, but the biggest change to renters rights in a generation is worth celebrating. This wasn’t handed to us from above, we won it💪

📢 On Tuesday ACORN shut down a conference of bailiffs and delivered a clear message to Leeds City Council. Support the fight for dignity, not debt. Support Bailiff Free Britain. ✍️ Sign the petition: acornuk.good.do/englandcampa...

This is just rewarding bad behaviour after years of developers gaming the system to get out of building affordable housing. We shouldn’t be watering down targets for affordable and social housing when we have so many on the waiting list. We’ve been fighting against this👇

Landlords and their lobbyists threw everything they had at killing this bill and still lost. Amazing news for renters everywhere who refused to back down!

🔥 The days of bailiffs & debt collectors sitting around at conferences, enjoying a buffet, & discussing how to line their pockets at our expense are over. You turn up at our door, we’ll turn up at yours. 🔗 Join the fight for a Bailiff Free Britain: acorntheunion.org.uk/bailiffs/

🔥 Today, 300 ACORN members from across England and Wales travelled to Leeds and shut down a conference that hosted some of Britain’s biggest bailiff firms.

The chair of Leeds strategy and resources board, Asghar Khan, has been ignoring our emails and calls for months. After 20 minutes of occupying Leeds Civic Hall, we’ve secured a meeting with him for Tuesday to discuss our Bailiff Free Britain campaign. Direct action works🔥

After shutting down the bailiff conference, we’re now occupying Leeds City Hall. Leeds is one of the worst councils in the country for referrals to bailiffs over council tax debt. Our message is clear: Leeds is for the people! No bully bailiffs, no scum landlords🔥

The bailiffs and debt collection agencies have vanished from their national conference, so we’ve decided to host our own panel on the fight for a Bailiff Free Britain📢 Get involved today: acorntheunion.org.uk/join 💪

We’re sending a clear message to parasite bailiffs… “And if they can’t hear us, we’ll take over their conference!”🔥

We’re occupying the main hall at the CCUA national conference, announcing our demand for a Bailiff Free Britain and letting bailiffs know we won’t stand by while they profit at our expense💪 Sign our open letter and join the fight here: acornuk.good.do/englandcampa...

Today was supposed to be The Civil Court Users Association’s national conference, where bailiffs & debt collection agencies come together. Not on our watch.  We’ve shut it down as part of our fight for a Bailiff Free Britain🔥 Sign our open letter here: acornuk.good.do/englandcampa...

Landlords are openly breaking the law to turn homes into year-round Airbnbs while we can’t find anywhere affordable to live. They’re being allowed to game the system while families are pushed out of their own cities and communities. Enough. Homes are for people, not profiteers.

This isn’t an unavoidable fact of life. It’s the direct result of policy choices made my those in power. It doesn’t have to be this way.

They actually want to charge us more for the luxury of raw sewage being dumped in our rivers and on our beaches, burst pipes across the country, and record profits for shareholders. That’s the legacy of privatisation in England.

“9 out of 10 young adults living with parents in the UK would face costs of nearly half their income if they moved out” This has been signed off by every government that handed our housing system to profiteering landlords while robbing a generation of stability and independence.

This is the reality of Section 21 “No Fault” evictions. Landlords kicking people out onto the street because they don’t want to live in run down, unsafe housing. The ban on Section 21 can’t come soon enough.

🇵🇸 Mahmoud Zwahre is a Palestinian activist and academic living in the West Bank. He spoke to us about his work resisting Israel’s illegal settler colonialism with ACORN affiliate PSCC Palestine✊

For decades, no fault evictions have let landlords destroy families’ lives on a whim. The Renters’ Rights Bill will finally put an end to this cruelty once and for all, because no landlord should have the power to rip people out of their homes and communities!

ACORN members took the fight to government this week, delivering a letter to ministers in London and Cardiff backed by 40+ MPs, MSs and union leaders. Together we demanded urgent reform of the council tax system (🧵…)

"It's the fifth monthly rise in a row and the first time in 18 months such a high has been reached" Rising bills means rising debt and with winter closing in people are driven into crisis, made to choose between heat or food, while profiteers rake it in and ministers just watch.

Last week ACORN worked on an Early Day Motion with @zarahsultana.bsky.social calling for sitting MPs to be banned from being landlords. Hear what she has to say and head to the link below to join the fight for renters' rights👇 acorntheunion.org.uk/join/

📢 Yesterday we took our fight for a fairer council tax system straight to government! We delivered our open letter to the new Housing Secretary, Housing Minister and Welsh Finance Secretary letting them know our message is clear: End the use of bailiffs for council tax debt!

🚨 With rising council tax debt and bailiff use hurting our communities, 40+ MPs from across political parties, alongside union leaders and councillors have signed our open letter calling for a fairer council tax system. 🔗 Sign the petition here: acornuk.good.do/englandcampa...

More than 80 MPs are landlords, cashing in on the same housing crisis they are supposed to solve. It’s a clear conflict of interest and that’s why Zarah Sultana, together with ACORN, has taken the fight to Parliament to call for a ban on landlord MPs! (🧵…)

We have big plans for this campaign, but you can get involved right now! The government is currently consulting on how council tax debt is collected. But this consultation closes tomorrow🚨 Fill out the consultation and make your voice heard: docs.google.com/document/u/0...

It's time for this barbaric and medieval practice to end #BailiffFreeBritain

Bailiffs are scum, we don't want them in our communities and we don't want them in our country. We urge every one of our supporters to join ACORN, because this union is fighting to kick bailiff leeches out of Wales.