We are a campaign demanding emergency housing reform in Wales 🏴 during the covid19 pandemic.
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To keep this going we have created an open letter to the First Minister @fmwales and Welsh Housing Minister @JulieJamesAM 🏠
Let us know if you want to sign the statement by commenting 'I demand action' below and we will add you to the signatories 👇
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Everyone who follows us should 100% follow @acornCardiff 👇
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Tonight we have launched our Cardiff ACORN branch! ✊
Chair @merlingable
Secretary @aardonyx
Coms @hazza_ps
Membership @ellendejenners
Watch this space for the @acorn_tweets day of action tomorrow 🙌
Demand Emergency Housing Legislation In Wales retweeted
We don’t need a repayment plan. We need rents to be suspended, rent debts to be cancelled and a permanent evictions ban.
Millions of renters are facing mounting arrears. Most have no savings to fall back on.
When will the Labour Party get on board? 🤔
BREAKING: Renters, Labour's got your back.
Here's how we can protect renters during the #coronavirus crisis 🏠
🚫 Ban evictions
🤝 Make getting financial help from the Government easier
🗓️ Give people more time to pay
❌ Stop renters being made bankrupt
Demand Emergency Housing Legislation In Wales retweeted
this is an interest-free, no strings attached loan for landlords. it is not support for tenants, and the scottish government haven't given tenants any support whatsoever
We want to ensure no one loses their home as a result of the #coronavirus pandemic.
A new £5m @ScotGov loan fund will support landlords whose tenants are having difficulty paying rent during the crisis.
➡️gov.scot/news/aid-for-privat…
ALT Support for landlords and tenants
For those interested in getting involved with @acorn_tweets 👇
Zoom Call on 4th May ✊
Note: ACORN is not party political. All welcome!
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And still yet, nothing from the Welsh Government 🤷♀️
If housing is devolved implement a freeze.
If you’ve handed the powers back to Westminster, go and demand a freeze.
theguardian.com/world/2020/a…
Demand Emergency Housing Legislation In Wales retweeted
Last week we spoke to tenants union @ACORN_tweets ✊
Listen for how people in Wales can build power 4 their community 🏴✊
We spoke to 👇
Anny Cullum (National Organiser)
Anna Oakes-Monger (Lancaster member, organising a rent strike on her campus)
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So it’s the case that now both @Keir_Starmer & @JohnHealey_MP have called for rent suspensions ✊
Yet @JulieJamesAM @WelshGovernment @fmwales have said nothing 🤷♀️
Housing is devolved! Make the case!
The handling of COVID19 by the Welsh Government has made it clear that we desperately need a tenants movement in Wales 🏴 ✊
Join @ACORN_tweets today and help build the movement.
We hear that the Cardiff branch is soon to be founded! Set one up near you lads? ✊
Demand Emergency Housing Legislation In Wales retweeted
Important new research from @resfoundation.
Renters hardest hit by the current shock to incomes
"A family in a 2 bed property in Torfaen could amass a debt of £400 over three months".
We need:
🏘️Longer guarantees from evictions
💷End to benefit cap
resolutionfoundation.org/pub…
Demand Emergency Housing Legislation In Wales retweeted
On a day that many will be struggling to pay their rent, campaigns calling for better protection for renters from ourselves, @LDNRentersUnion & @Living_Rent feature on the front page of @M_Star_Online.
Read online here - morningstaronline.co.uk/arti…
Demand Emergency Housing Legislation In Wales retweeted
Our latest guidance on what to do if you are facing housing difficulties due to the coronavirus can be found here. Please share widely!
livingrent.org/covid_19_faqs
UPDATE... There is no update!
STILL the Welsh government are asking tenants to appeal to their kindness of their landlord in order to keep a roof over their head.
Tenants have 0 protection currently.
@JulieJamesAM @fmwales 🤷♀️
This is complete misunderstanding of collective bargainig.
Trade unions wouldn’t go into a workplace and tell an individual to negotiate themsleves a pay rise.
We CANNOT ask individuals to negotiate their rent with landlords!
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Hello @wgmin_housing a labour member here wondering why we are asking renters to negotiate with their landlords rather than protecting them with legislation?
gov.wales/coronavirus-covid-…
Demand Emergency Housing Legislation In Wales retweeted
Welsh Labour are the party of landlords. After weeks of leftists in wales lobbying for rent freezes, and after Corbyn calling for rent freezes, *this* is their response: ‘negotiate rent holidays with your landlord as an individual’. Even for them this must be a new low.
Great to see the @BevanFoundation calling for rent holidays in their recent publication 🙌
@JulieJamesAM
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It’s clear that we need a tenants union here in Wales.
Tenants need better security!
RT if you agree ✊
Demand Emergency Housing Legislation In Wales retweeted
We’re calling on the @WelshGovernment to take action to support students who have been affected by #COVID19 through financial support and by asking private landlords to halt rent payments for students who have moved home.
It’s important students don’t financially lose out!
