BC ACORN

BC ACORN started organizing in 2005, starting with our first chapter, Surrey. Since then we have built up six more chapters across the lower mainland (New Westminster, Burnaby, Tri-Cities, Whalley, Guilford, and Newton). Some of our biggest victories include: Canada’s first living wage policy in New Westminster; the introduction of a healthy homes bylaw in Surrey; regulation of payday lending; and many local victories against slumlords!

Despite losing our office in an explosion in 2013, BC ACORN is stronger than ever and continuing the fight for healthy homes, disability rights, and closing the digital divide!

Want to be part of the fight? Join ACORN!

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The Tyee: Big Changes for Demoviction Central

Burnaby adopts surprising recommendations for growth, homelessness and protecting renters. We break down the biggest three.

Burnaby Now: Housing activists hail Burnaby's 'robust' tenant relocation plan

Proposed policy would guarantee temporary accommodation to renters displaced by renovictions and demovictions

Victory for Burnaby ACORN in the Fight for Tenant Protections!

BC ACORN members are celebrating the strongest protections offered to tenants in Canada

Burnaby's new approach to rental housing: here's what it does and doesn't do

On Monday, May 27th Burnaby council passed a series of proposals aimed at stopping tenant displacement in the Metrotown area, which saw 800 units destroyed in the last few years and replaced by luxury condos.

Burnaby city council finally taking steps in right direction on demovictions

ACORN sees the new rental housing policies that are being debated tonight by Burnaby council as a ‘good first step’, but say that more will need to be done to protect existing tenants from demovictions.

Thank you, in memory of Janet Tansley

ACORN members from across Canada would like thank Janet Tansley for her generous legacy gift to BC ACORN.

Halifax Examiner: New Westminster: A living example of a living-wage policy

People working a job shouldn’t have to struggle to get by.

ACORN's first read on Budget 2019: Almost $23 billion in new spending, but low and moderate income Canadians underwhelmed

ACORN members, hoping for bold action to tackle the affordability crisis sweeping across many Canadian cities, were feeling underwhelmed as the federal government tabled Budget 2019, their last budget before the election in October.

Burnaby unleashed a monster: Metrotown tenants still being displaced despite hold on demovictions

Press release

BC ACORN looking to see increases is PWD rates in Provincial Budget

BC ACORN leader Tabitha Naismith is in Victoria awaiting the budget speech today.

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