🎉🎉 VICTORY - 3 MONTHS OF C-19 RENT ARREARS WAIVED! 🎉🎉
On Monday, we asked you to take part in an email jam supporting Aleesha's fight for a rent waiver! Less than 24 hours after its launch, the letting agent had offered to pay off her rent arrears of £1407.81 in full. ✊
They also offered to return her deposit within 7 days, and are allowing her to 'pay back what she can, when she can, at her discretion'!! Her deposit was returned in full by Thursday, so this win is safely in the bag! ✊
Our member wasn't furloughed, and as a student, isn't eligible for Universal Credit. She tried to negotiate a rent waiver alone, sending numerous letters to be met with either no response or the demand to pay her rent in full. This wasn't just unfair, but impossible.
But with our support and strength in numbers, she got their attention, and the result she needed. 🙌 It isn't any tenants job to risk their health just to fill the pockets of greedy landlords. We will continue to fight hard for our members, just like we fought for Aleesha.
So if you or anyone you know is struggling to pay their rent, then tell them to join the union and get in touch. Together, we can put power back into the hands of renters once and for all! 🔥
#HousingIsHealth
acorntheunion.org.uk/join
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