ACORN Leeds 🦉🤝🦉

Leeds branch of @ACORNunion. We take action across our city, using strength in numbers to take back whats ours. Get in touch!

[ACORN Leeds 🦉🤝🦉 @ACORNLeeds]

Last week ACORN Leeds marched into Parklane Lettings HQ after exposing illegal discrimination against people on benefits.

They tried to intimidate members and shut us down, but we stood firm and won!

When tenants organise, we win. 🔥

[ACORN Leeds 🦉🤝🦉 @ACORNLeeds]

Bailiffs and landlords don’t stand a chance against an organised community!

Across the country, ACORN is protecting our members from dodgy landlords, housing disrepair, unaffordable rent hikes and bailiff harassment

[ACORN Leeds 🦉🤝🦉 @ACORNLeeds]

EVICTION RESISTED 💪

This morning the community came together to keep our member Evie in her home! After mistreatment by the landlord, they were trying to force her out onto the street.

Well not on our watch – Not today, not ever!

[ACORN the union @ACORNunion]

We wont stand by while our members are forced to live in sub standard conditions.

Not on our watch💪

[ACORN Leeds 🦉🤝🦉 @ACORNLeeds]

For five months, residents have lived with rats, broken water, and dead intercoms. Spencer Properties has done nothing.

Last month we took our demands straight to their office. They gave us excuses, so we shut them down for the day.

We’ll keep fighting for our members!

[ACORN Leeds 🦉🤝🦉 @ACORNLeeds]

After years of campaigning, we secured an expansion of the Landlord Licensing Scheme across more parts of Leeds. But that’s not enough, we need a citywide scheme, with clear enforcement, to protect renters.

We won’t stand by while politicians profit from the housing crisis.

[ACORN Leeds 🦉🤝🦉 @ACORNLeeds]

While tenants nationwide struggle with rogue landlords, soaring rents, disrepair, and the constant threat of eviction, politicians continue to profit from the housing crisis. Just months ago, Labour’s own HOMELESSNESS Minister was found to have evicted tenants just to put up rent

[ACORN Leeds 🦉🤝🦉 @ACORNLeeds]

NO LANDLORDS IN POLITICS

After backing the Landlord Licensing scheme, Chancellor @rachelreevesmp has been exposed for failing to secure a license for her own Leeds rental property.

[ACORN Leeds 🦉🤝🦉 @ACORNLeeds]

The new scheme will hold landlords to higher standards, ensuring homes are kept in a decent state of repair.

But we believe this should be the standard for ALL housing in Leeds.

[ACORN Leeds 🦉🤝🦉 @ACORNLeeds]

A big win for renters in Leeds! But without a city-wide scheme, many remain unprotected.

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[ACORN Leeds 🦉🤝🦉 @ACORNLeeds]

Following our Ban Slum Landlords campaign and months of organising renters earlier in 2025 to take part in the consultation, Leeds City Council has finally taken action to expand Landlord Licensing across new areas of the city!

[ACORN the union @ACORNunion]

🚨 Stark data from @novaramedia and @debtjustice on why the fight for a Bailiff Free Britain is so important, and why we shut down a bailiff conference last week!

🔗 https://t.co/KQQ8h43eJ4

[Sam Kidel ACORN @SamKidel]

As ACORN Bristol secretary Wesley said: 'we're choosing dignity' ✊️

We're declaring war on bailiffs🔥

Want us to win? Join ACORN https://t.co/ly4it99wJV

[ACORN the union @ACORNunion]

📢 On Tuesday ACORN shut down a conference of bailiffs and delivered a clear message to Leeds City Council.

Support the fight for dignity, not debt. Support Bailiff Free Britain.

✍️ Sign the petition: https://t.co/h2Iwa64KKY

[ACORN Leeds 🦉🤝🦉 @ACORNLeeds]

After months of being ignored, we took our demands straight to Leeds Civic Hall.

We secured a meeting with Cllr Asghar Khan to hold him to account on the council use of bailiffs.

Direct action works.

[ACORN Leeds 🦉🤝🦉 @ACORNLeeds]

Our first ever national action, hosted right here in LEEDS!!

300 members came together to kick off our Bailiff Free Britain campaign, shut down a conference and force Leeds council to the table!

We won’t stand for bailiff terrorising our communities. This is only the beginning

[ACORN the union @ACORNunion]

NEW CAMPAIGN 🚨

Right now, people are pushed into poverty when councils send in bailiffs for council tax debt.

But there’s another way.

Together, we can stop this. Together, we can have dignity not debt. Together, we can make Britain Bailiff Free👇
🔗 https://t.co/KQQ8h43eJ4

[ACORN Leeds 🦉🤝🦉 @ACORNLeeds]

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[ACORN Leeds 🦉🤝🦉 @ACORNLeeds]

Turns out bailiffs don't like it where they're the ones being kicked out!

Backed by 300 members from across the county, we took over a bailiff conference and made it the Baliff Free Britian Conference.

More info below:

[ACORN Leeds 🦉🤝🦉 @ACORNLeeds]

Then we marched to Leeds City Hall and occupied the lobby. After months of being ignored, Cllr Asghar Khan finally agreed to meet us. We’ll be holding Leeds City Council to account for their shameful use of bailiffs. This is just the start.