{"id":12004,"date":"2023-05-10T16:36:30","date_gmt":"2023-05-10T20:36:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/acorncanada.org\/?post_type=news&#038;p=12004"},"modified":"2023-05-29T14:19:56","modified_gmt":"2023-05-29T18:19:56","slug":"voteforanaffordablecity","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/acorncanada.org\/news\/voteforanaffordablecity\/","title":{"rendered":"Count On Me to Vote for an Affordable City!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-12076\" src=\"https:\/\/acorncanada.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/346098838_2421452178013816_2413920449224025890_n-1024x538.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"420\" srcset=\"https:\/\/acorncanada.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/346098838_2421452178013816_2413920449224025890_n-1024x538.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/acorncanada.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/346098838_2421452178013816_2413920449224025890_n-300x158.jpg 300w, https:\/\/acorncanada.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/346098838_2421452178013816_2413920449224025890_n-768x403.jpg 768w, https:\/\/acorncanada.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/346098838_2421452178013816_2413920449224025890_n.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>Count On Me<\/strong> to vote for the priorities that Toronto ACORN members have identified in their Affordable City platform for the upcoming mayoral election.<\/p>\n<p>Count on me to support Toronto ACORN&#8217;s Affordable City platform:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Landlord licensing<\/li>\n<li>Fund affordable housing<\/li>\n<li>No tenant displacement<\/li>\n<li>Community funding<\/li>\n<li>Affordable internet<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/acorncanada.org\/resources\/toronto-acorn-affordable-city-platform\/\">See our platform here<\/a>.\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/acorncanada.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/Toronto-Flyer.pdf\">Download the flyer here<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Sign the Count on Me pledge below!<\/p>\n<p><iframe src=\"https:\/\/docs.google.com\/forms\/d\/e\/1FAIpQLSeNbBb35Sv1XeUyqcz4p3vnMk979YIQpA3jZZj6JQy_qSDsLg\/viewform?embedded=true\" width=\"500\" height=\"440\" frameborder=\"0\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\">Loading\u2026<\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><em><strong>About us<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p>Toronto 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<p>Since then, ACORN has spread to every part of the city with six organized chapters and over 60,000 members in Toronto.<\/p>\n<p>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<p>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<p>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<p>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}]}}