‘No Fault’ Evictions to be scrapped
May 15, 2019
For years private tenants in England and Wales have been the most insecure in Europe due to Section 21 of the 1988 Housing Act that allows landlords to evict tenants for no reason and...
Read More ShareSolidarity With Survivors
December 14, 2018
In 2018 our Bristol branch was contacted by two survivors of domestic violence looking for help with the unsafe, chaotic and bullying environment in their ‘safe’ house and from which they were now being...
Read More ShareNo Universal Credit Evictions
November 27, 2018
As Universal Credit was being rolled out in 2018, many housing benefit recipients were seeing huge delays in receiving their payments leaving them in rent arrears and threatened with eviction.
Read More ShareNatwest Say Yes to DSS!
October 07, 2018
Fresh from our victory over TSB we started to look at what other banks were up to. In the Autumn of 2018 a news story broke, revealing NatWest had the same discriminatory mortgage terms...
Read More ShareTSB Say Yes to DSS!
May 31, 2018
We celebrated ACORN’s 4th birthday in style in May 2018 with protests and occupations of branches of TSB across the country. members complained that TSB’s mortgage terms were preventing buy-to-let landlords from renting to...
Read More ShareKeep the Council Tax Reduction
March 20, 2018
In 2017 Bristol City Council announced plans to scrap the Council Tax Reduction benefit and so force the 25,000 poorest households in Bristol to pay council tax. Faced with a drastically reduced budget due...
Read More ShareSex for Rent
March 12, 2018
One of the most exploitative but least visible aspects of Britain’s brutal housing crisis is the disgusting situation of landlords using their properties as a means to extract sex from desperate tenants who can’t...
Read More ShareRenters Vote 2017
August 09, 2017
Private renters are much less likely to have their voices heard in elections than homeowners and other tenants. The high levels of insecurity, with tenants often facing eviction multiple times a year means that renters...
Read More ShareSantander Rent Rise Clause
March 07, 2017
In 2017 we took our first coordinated national action alongside our Scottish sister organisation Living Rent in protest at a hidden clause in Santander’s buy-to-let mortgage terms that required landlords to raise rents to...
Read More ShareLandlord Licensing
December 14, 2016
A third of privately rented homes would fail the Decent Homes Standard and for years ACORN has used direct action to prevent revenge evictions and get repairs made to slum housing. Licensing of landlords...
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