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• News / bristol city council

  Scrapping council tax reduction scheme ‘slap in the face’ 

  Members of ACORN have called an emergency meeting to fight the proposals

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• News / Hillfields

  Residents disrupt cabinet meeting to demand local councillor surgery

  The group said they were “left with no choice” but to try and meet their councillors at the meeting

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• News / acorn

  Crowd turns out to thwart eviction of disabled man

  Ben Watson says the thought of losing his home has made him "almost suicidal"

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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 / Housing

  Union resistance prevents ‘beloved’ community worker’s eviction

  Homeowner George Francis is a volunteer at Glen’s Kitchen and co-founder of Bridging Histories

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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 / easton

  Squatters occupy house in protest of family’s eviction

  Ruth Nestor and her children were evicted in October due to a dispute relating to a 2012 court order

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• News / Twinnell House

  Campaigners celebrate new fire safety measures following Twinnell House fire

  "This is people power at the end of the day"

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