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Posted July 30, 2018

The Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now, or ACORN, started door knocking in 2004 in Toronto, Ottawa and Hamilton.

Since then we have facilitated 20- to 40-minute house visits with over 150,000 of the lowest-income tenants across these three cities.

During each visit we ask, “What is the biggest issue you would like to see changed?”

Undoubtedly, the most common issue we hear about is the substandard state of both public and private housing.

In the previous government’s Climate Change Action Plan, tenants were promised $385 million to $500 million for social housing retrofits, plus $300 to $400 million in incentives for retrofits in other private apartment buildings, funded through cap and trade revenues. The diversion of this money away from retrofits represents a huge loss for hundreds of thousands of tenants across the province. 

ACORN members and allies came out for a victory rally outside of City Hall.

Posted July 23, 2018

What people can afford to pay for a home has nothing to do with the price of housing and everything to do with their income.

Burnaby politics is in for a shakeup. And the one issue that’s driving the change is a rapid loss in older rental buildings to make way for new condo towers in the suburb’s Metrotown area.

Members in the Whalley/Guildford area got together to identify key concerns in the community.

ACORN wants the city to redefine affordable housing

Residents say the landlord, Timbercreek, is forcing them out by neglect.

A group of Heron Gate residents and affordable housing advocates with Ottawa Acorn took their push for better living conditions to the streets Thursday.