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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.

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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.

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The same publications that fight against workers striking for better pay are always the ones writing sob stories about wealthy people “struggling” financially🤔