rent crisis

• News / Housing

  New landlord licenses could improve renting in Bristol

  The plans have already proven successful in parts of the city

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• News / Housing

  Bristol in top five cities for rental dissatisfaction

  A new study has analysed thousands of tweets from across the UK

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• Your say / Housing

  ‘The Renters Reform Bill does not go far enough in tackling a mounting housing crisis’

  The housing delivery & homes cabinet member argues more should be done to protect renters

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• News / Miss Conduct

  Yacht owner used false identities to exploit tenants

  Thomas Flight was accused of spinning a "web of deceit" by a judge

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• News / acorn

  Housing union aims to make Bristol the UK’s first ‘bid-free’ city

  Acorn is already securing pledges from Bristol letting agents

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• News / acorn

  Tenants protest council’s ‘whitewashing’ rent commission

  Tenants lined up to post their stories through a letter box outside the council building 

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• News / acorn

  Housing campaigners storm meeting in protest at their exclusion from commission

  “Our exclusion is clearly an attempt to whitewash its outcomes”

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• Your say / Housing

  ‘ACORN is a community union that has landlords on the run’

  ACORN has grown from a few dozen concerned Bristol residents to a nationwide organisation

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