ACORN Hackney

🏘️ NEXT WEEK: Local election hustings - ask politicians the questions that matter to YOU! 🤔💬

Hackney council elections are this May! ACORN Hackney is hosting a hustings where you get the chance to ask all the candidates... how they are going to make Hackney better for YOU and OUR COMMUNITY 🌍

Make sure you are there!
📅 Thursday April 23rd 7pm
📍Gascoyne One Community Centre
👥 All welcome

Register here: https://app.zetkin.org/o/1075/surveys/2938

Join us for the ACORN Christmas Party on Thursday 18th December at the Langham Club! 🎄🎅 Let’s celebrate in union style!🍾🎶

Free entry for members, £5 for non-members

"The meeting was punctuated by jeers and heckles by members of renters union, ACORN, who had arrived on the Town Hall steps brandishing their letter to the borough’s private renting lead, Cllr Sem Moema.

By the end of the meeting, the campaigners were clad in party hats and throwing confetti from the chamber gallery as the cabinet voted to move ahead with statutory consultation."😎

Council to consult on regulating majority of Hackney landlords Renters union welcomes ‘first step’ towards widespread licensing scheme this summer

🚨ACORN Hackney demands licensing and proper enforcement against rogue landlords at last night's Cabinet vote💪

We delivered a letter to Cllr Moema demanding a meeting, before making our thoughts on the scheme heard from the gallery.

We were swiftly thrown out, but licensing was voted IN!!

Another win for the good guys🎉