Alberta ACORN

10/10/2026

Forest Lawn wants to REMAIN in Canada! 🇨🇦

People told us they want the government to focus on what matters:

🔑Affordable Housing

📈Rent Control

♿️Scrap ADAP - Improve AISH

🏚️Healthy Homes and Landlord Accountability

❌Close the Fixed-Term-Lease Loophole

10/09/2026

Read the statement on ACORN's website: https://acorncanada.org/news/statement-from-acorn-pm-carneys-investment-to-retrofit-one-million-homes-misses-protecting-tenants/

STATEMENT: Public investments 💰 in energy efficiency must not only reduce emissions and energy costs, but also reduce energy poverty and protect tenants, ensuring that federal incentives are not used to raise rents and evict tenants via RENOVICTIONS.🏡🚫

The federal announcement is for $2 billion for home energy retrofits, including new heat pump rebates and financing for apartment building retrofits. There are large problems ⚠️with no requirement to protect tenants from rent increases, above-guideline increases (AGIs), renovictions or displacement ‼️

ACORN is demanding that we are immediately consulted to avoid this incentive creating mass RENOVICTIONS in many provinces. For example we saw investments by the CIB in Alberta in 2023-24 lead to evictions. We need assurances that tenants will actually benefit from lower energy costs and improved living conditions! 📣

Alejandra Ruiz Vargas,
ACORN Canada President

10/06/2026

ACORN Radio talks Alberta separation — what is behind it, where it’s going, and what ACORN is doing to make Alberta a better place for working people. Full interview here: https://bit.ly/3VPUmGg

09/25/2026

Tonight’s East End chapter meeting at village square library! Housing issues, ADAP and more! Join us! Email [email protected] to get involved!

09/22/2026

Canada is planning the next decade of housing behind closed doors.

While affordable homes disappear and more people face eviction and homelessness, continues to listen to developers, landlords and private equity companies. A National Housing Strategy shaped without tenants will keep producing the same failed results. Tenants know what the housing crisis looks like because we live it. We need a seat at the table.

Add your name and demand a National Housing Strategy built for tenants, not for big business:

https://acorncanada.org/take_action/national-housing-strategy-demand-tenants-have-a-seat-at-the-table/

09/18/2026

SCRAP ADAP! ✊

We delivered a letter to MLA Peter Singh’s office outlining our concerns about the Alberta Disability Assistance Program and the impact it will have on people with disabilities.

Peter Singh apparently wasn’t in the office, but staff accepted our letter and committed to setting up a meeting with us next week to discuss our concerns.

We’re looking forward to that conversation—but we’ll keep organizing until people with disabilities have the support they deserve.

SCRAP ADAP! ✊

09/17/2026

With Calgary Climate Hub talking extreme heat in rental housing 🔥🔥🔥

09/11/2026

City centre chapter meeting happening NOW at the central library! Room 3-10A!

09/04/2026

🏠 Calgary Renters need City Council to start treating the housing crisis with the urgency it requires.

Yesterday, Calgary ACORN went to City Hall to speak at the committee hearing on the City’s Housing Strategy Refresh — and we left deeply disappointed.

Tenants and tenant organizations were not consulted on the housing strategy refresh. And what we saw was a strategy focused only on supply, with targets that aren’t high enough to meet the scale of the crisis — and no guarantee that Council will actually fund those inadequate targets.

If we aren’t building enough non market housing, then we need to protect the affordable housing we already have.

That means landlord licensing.

Calgary needs a system that ensures rental housing is safe, maintained and livable — and that holds landlords accountable when they fail tenants. That includes Calgary Housing. Public or private, landlords should not be allowed to let affordable housing fall into disrepair or treat tenants badly without accountability.

Ultimately, this comes down to the City budget.

📢 We need to make our voices heard at City Hall this November.

We need the City of Calgary to:
🏠 Fund housing at the level of the actual need.
🏠 Protect the affordable housing we already have through landlord licensing.
🏠 Hold landlords — including Calgary Housing — accountable.

This November, ACORN is going to City Hall to make sure Council hears us.

09/02/2026

✍️ SIGN THE PETITION AND JOIN OUR LETTER DROP TMW @11:30AM! 🔗Link to petition is in the first comment!

Tomorrow ACORN & allies are delivering our open letter to MP offices across the country - join us in Calgary at MP Corey Hogan's office! Meet at 207-1717 10th St NW.

The Federal government is currently developing a NEW National Housing Strategy🏠. This is a real opportunity for Canada to reverse course on many of the issues plaguing renters who are bearing the brunt of the housing crisis.

Yet consultations on the new NHS are being done in secret and behind closed doors 🚪🔒.

Every Minister in the Liberal Cabinet is a homeowner and 38% are landlords. How can we expect the federal government to represent tenants’ interests if we’re not consulted? 🤔

TAKE ACTION - SIGN NOW! ✉️