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@ACORNunion
Jan 28, 2022 • 5 tweets • 2 min read • Read on X
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🏚️We recently conducted a snapshot survey of 500 ACORN members, looking at the issues affecting them as private renters.

The figures are stark, the solution is simple. Join the union! acorntheunion.org.uk/join

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Nov 7
Stopping the sale of new council houses through Right to Buy would be a huge step in the right direction 🎊

For the last 40 years, councils have been reluctant to build council housing because they have no power to stop them being sold off at a huge discount!
For every social home built, 2 are sold through the Right to Buy 📉

Right to Buy has been a disaster: 40% of council houses sold through it are now owned by landlords, and very few have ever been replaced.
Thatcher’s policy has transferred rental income from local authorities (to provide housing for the public good) to landlords (to rent out homes for private profit)💰
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Jul 3
Both Labour and Tories claim the “only real way” to make renting affordable is to build more homes.

So let’s take a look at how their house building plans would impact rent costs 🧵 Image
Both parties are promising similar numbers of new, mostly market rate, houses over the next 5y:

🔴 1.5m
🔵 1.6m

When adjusted for projected population growth and demolition, this would result in a net gain of approx 250k homes by 2030.

How would this affect rent?
Academic research suggests that, assuming it is built in the right place, a 1% increase in housing stock lowers rents by 1.5 to 2%. .blogs.lse.ac.uk/politicsandpol…
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May 10, 2022
❗️Breaking: Renters Reform Bill confirmed in Queen's Speech❗️

We’re pleased that plans for reform of private renting in England were confirmed.

While the detail of the legislation will follow in a White Paper 'to be released shortly'...
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#QueensSpeech #RentersAreWaiting
Highlights mentioned include:
❌ a long-awaited end to Section 21 ‘no fault’ evictions
🏡 a Decent Homes Standard for privately rented homes
📋 the introduction of a ‘property portal’ (ie. landlord register)
👎However, other key areas, inc. preventing discrimination in renting & guaranteeing improved security through indefinite tenancies, were lacking, and we want to see further protections for renters in the detail of how possession grounds (legal reasons for eviction) are reformed.
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Jan 26, 2022
ACORN brings people together to fight and win on the issues affecting our communities. 

@ACORN_Bristol are currently running a campaign to #UnlockOurToilets, demanding that the council reopens 9 public toilets that have recently been closed. Three people stand together, with one holding a hard written
In their words, “We rely on them for our basic dignity at work, in our leisure time or travelling around our city. 

“They are essential for those of us with disabilities, those with bowel and bladder conditions, those of us without a home, and the elderly.”
“We deserve a city that we can live and work in, without fear of the indignity of being caught short. It is not simply an inconvenience for us - public toilets are a necessity.”
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