a community-based union with branches growing across England and Wales, Acorn tackles injustice with a major focus on housing – preventing evictions, winning repairs in dangerous properties, and stopping banks from discriminating against tenants on housing benefit.

a longstanding campaign organisation set up in the late 1990s to defend council housing in the UK from privatisation. It began primarily as the main national vehicle against Conservative and Labour Government’s stock transfer policy to sell off council estates to housing associations but has expanded its remit over time to focus on all aspects of social housing.

began life in late 2015 as the ‘Kill The Housing Bill’ campaign to bring together campaigners, groups, trade unions and anyone else who want to fight the current Conservative Government’s Housing and Planning Act 2016 and the wider threats to secure homes for a

aims to unite London’s 3 million renters in a city-wide union that can tackle the housing crisis and win better housing for everyone. LRU was launched in 2018 by a coalition of housing groups and social justice groups including the Radical Housing Network, Take Back The City, Generation Rent, Digs (Hackney Renters) , and People’s Empowerment Alliance for Custom House (PEACH) 

set up in 2017 by leaseholders affected by the escalating ground rents scandal, NLC campaigns for the abolition of residential leasehold in England and Wales, the adoption of commonhold for new flats and apartments, as well as full and proper redress for the millions of people currently trapped in leasehold properties.

a platform of different groups based in London fighting for housing justice across tenure and rooted in people’s everyday housing needs. Supports a diversity of tactics, including direct action, and organises as a horizontal association of groups that connect and cooperate with each other within and beyond our local neighbourhoods.

a grassroots networking platform for residents and campaigners setup since the Grenfell fire to enable residents to take action on landlord indifference to safety, health and wellbeing of tenants and leaseholders.

a campaign to defend social housing, with a focus on housing associations and cooperatives that coordinates with the Unite Housing Workers Branch to highlight and oppose the increasing commercialisation of social housing, and to improve the lives of workers and residents.

founded in 2016, TUUK is a national democratic campaigning union with a network of powerful local branches aiming to defend the interests and quality of life of tenants and renters by building powerful relationships between renters and tenants and by providing education, advocacy, leadership development, advice and support services, and research to members.

a hub for sharing information, resources, training and data with groups and individuals who live in, or are concerned about tower block housing safety issues in the UK, and supporting residents to be heard.

set up in 1993, CCH is a UK-wide membership organisation open to all housing co-operatives, tenant-controlled housing organisations and regional federations of housing co-ops, that promotes and supports their work.

a relatively new campaigning organisation set up in 2014 by private renters fighting for professionally managed, secure, decent and affordable privately rented homes. Generation Rent calls for changes in legislation, strategies, policies and practices to make private housing a better place to live and seeks to strengthen the voice of private tenants by developing a national network of private renters and local private renters’ groups

Scotland’s tenants’ union, democratically run by and for tenants, organising to redress the power imbalance between landlords and tenants and ensure that everyone has decent and affordable housing.

a national voluntary membership organisation founded in 1992 to facilitate networking and support for 130 TMOs in England and to promote community control as an option within regeneration initiatives and in areas of greatest need.

a campaign group set up in 2014 to educate people about the impact of the Private Finance Initiative on our public services, teach practical skills to challenge PFI locally, and campaign nationwide to end PFI now.

a network of radical co-ops working whose members are committed to working for positive social change via the principle of mutual aid. The network is made up mainly of housing co-ops of various sizes (none with more than 17 members), a few workers co-ops and a couple of social centres. Radical Routes is able to make loans to member co-ops due to its ethical investment arm, Rootstock.

founded in 1966 to campaign on slum housing, regulation of private landlords and funding for housing associations, today Shelter is a leading national housing organisation that campaigns for changes to the housing system and provides advice, legal representation, and research. Following the Grenfell Tower fire, Shelter launched a Commission on the Future of Social Housing which has since made important recommendations.

an independent registered charity formed in 2013 out of the former national tenant representative organisation, Tenants and Resident Organisations of England (TAROE), that assists people living in or looking to access affordable housing within the regulated housing sector by providing free advice and assistance on housing issues to persons who would otherwise be unable to obtain it.

one of the biggest tenant communities in the UK providing free content and resources to help tenants learn their rights and responsibilities, manage their tenancies and rental properties and maintain good relationships with their landlords and letting agen