About us<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\nToronto ACORN (Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now), is a membership based community union made up of low-to-moderate income people. ACORN was founded in 2004, with the first organized group in Canada being formed in Weston \/ Mt Dennis.<\/p>\n
Since then, ACORN has spread to every part of the city with six organized chapters and over 60,000 members in Toronto.<\/p>\n
ACORN believes that social and economic justice can best be achieved with a city-wide membership who are invested in their organization and focused on building community power for change.<\/p>\n
In Toronto, 46.8% of tenant households spend more than 30% of their pretax income on shelter costs or to live in unaffordable housing.<\/p>\n
Our platform provides a summary of the local campaigns Toronto ACORN members need mayoral candidates to commit to champion if elected on June 26, 2023.<\/p>\n
ACORN members need to see the following changes to make Toronto an affordable and livable city!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":12124,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"template":"","front_page_slider":[50],"campaigns":[63],"featured_news":[],"class_list":["post-12004","news","type-news","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","front_page_slider-yes","campaigns-other"],"acf":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/acorncanada.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/12004","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/acorncanada.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/acorncanada.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/news"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/acorncanada.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12124"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/acorncanada.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12004"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"front_page_slider","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/acorncanada.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/front_page_slider?post=12004"},{"taxonomy":"campaigns","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/acorncanada.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/campaigns?post=12004"},{"taxonomy":"featured_news","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/acorncanada.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/featured_news?post=12004"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}