Latest posts tagged with #TenantOrganizing on Bluesky
This week at Shelterforce:
• Safe and Sheltered — Tenant organizers push for eviction moratoriums as ICE fears grow
• What Is the Solidarity Economy?
• Nonprofits Own These Offices—And Put Housing on Top of Them
Read more:
conta.cc/4l5RttK
#HousingJustice #TenantOrganizing #SolidarityEconomy
Organizers working to mobilize renters who live in single-family homes must first create the opportunity—and provide the space—for tenants of the same landlord to connect with one another.
Listen here for more about that and other tips: 🎧 apple.co/4k52Ilq
#TenantOrganizing
Tenant protections don’t enforce themselves. As more Upstate NY towns adopt eviction protections, organizers are helping renters assert rights many don’t know they have.
Read the story 📖 bit.ly/4algbkE
#HousingJustice #TenantOrganizing #EvictionPrevention
🚨 The National Tenant Organizing Fund is officially OPEN, accepting applications from tenant unions and tenant-led groups across Canada.
First deadline: April 12 at 11:59pm EST.
housingjustice.now/tenant-fund/apply
#TenantPower #HousingJustice #TenantOrganizing #PeopleOverProfit
"In the single-family homes, I found that people were [also] dealing with absent landlords and repairs not being made, but the residents had the ability to just fix the thing that they’re dealing with.”
👉 bit.ly/4bHazUj
#TenantOrganizing #CommunityPower
As the single-family rental market grows, tenant organizers are adapting their tactics to a housing landscape that stretches across neighborhoods—with no shared spaces, and often, no clear landlord.
📖 bit.ly/4bHazUj
#TenantOrganizing #HousingJustice
Fantastic new #APE book by @povertyscholar.bsky.social and @profsorelle.bsky.social on #housing, #tenantorganizing, and the limitations of the American civil justice system!
www.americanpoliticaleconomy.org/post/uncivil...
Habitability policy shapes everyday life—from repairs to AC standards.
Join us for Fit to Live In, featuring organizers and advocates working to improve housing conditions on the ground.
🗓 Feb. 11 | ⏰ 3 p.m. ET / 12 P.M. PT
🎟 Register: bit.ly/45wIwmG
#HousingPolicy #TenantOrganizing
Just a reminder this is happening tomorrow! You still have time to register if you want to join in the conversation with @povertyscholar.bsky.social and I about #peoplepower #accesstojustice #housing #tenantorganizing
Come join us January 28th @ 3:30pm on Zoom for a great conversation about @povertyscholar.bsky.social's and my new book, Uncivil Democracy: How Access to Justice Shapes Political Power!
#peoplepower #accesstojustice #housing #tenantorganizing
Register using the QR code below 👇👇👇
A side by side of two photos of the same book, being held by each author with a box of more books in the background.
A book never feels real until you hold it in you hands. @profsorelle.bsky.social & I can now confirm that Uncivil Democracy is real! If you care about #peoplepower #housingjustice, #tenantorganizing & transforming our perverse political economy, this is a book for you.
Order here: bit.ly/3NLYCCw
New book review: Staking Our Claim, a memoir highlighting NJ tenant organizing in the 1970s and the early days of Shelterforce.
Read here ➡️ bit.ly/3KXsawa
#TenantOrganizing #HousingHistory #BookReview
"The Latino immigrant community thinks that they don’t have any rights. For me, the hard part is getting them to understand that they do," says Sandra Alvarez, an organizer in Tuscon.
Listen here: bit.ly/4noDfUC
#ImmigrantJustice #TenantOrganizing
@moreperfectunion.bsky.social | More Perfect Union: "National Rent Control? It's Closer Than You Think" | #HighRent #RentInflation #TenantOrganizing #KCTenants #SlumLords #Greystar #Blackstone #AvalonBay #NationalMultifamilyHousingCouncil
www.youtube.com/watch?v=BlF6...
A major victory for the Tenant Association at Ellis Lakeview: buildwide replacement of all carpets! Keep an eye out for more victories to come as the Ellis TA continues to fight for their demands.
#tenantorganizing #ellislakeview #chicago #projectbasedsection8 #pbs8
Grassroots win: Organizing tenant voices in NYC helped a candidate win a primary. Mamdani's victory is driving the conversation on a rent freeze.
Read more:
bit.ly/4kJJL6B
#RentControl #TenantOrganizing
When rent hikes came, Betty Lewis stayed.
She helped lead a 6-year fight that ended in victory: capped rents + permanent affordability.
This is what community organizing looks like.
🔗 bit.ly/40iQayp
#TenantOrganizing #BlackHousingJustice #Mattapan
Door-knocking, tenant outreach, policy wins.
NYC’s primary shows housing justice wins votes.
bit.ly/4kJJL6B
#HousingJustice #TenantOrganizing
Tenants with Section 8 vouchers are being priced out, pushed out, and ignored.
HUD isn’t enforcing the rules, and it’s only getting worse under Trump. But organizers are fighting back.
👉 buff.ly/PA4p8mH
#HousingCrisis #TenantOrganizing
Did you miss @povertyscholar.bsky.social's SWIPE presentation last week? Catch up on her talk and discussion with @motorres.bsky.social and @robmickey.bsky.social on YouTube:
youtu.be/2HQ43NfwJ-o?... #HousingJustice #TenantOrganizing #academicsky
Bob Belcher leading a group of tenants and he says “rent hike, rent strike!”
@samseder.bsky.social @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social #bobsburgers #bobbelcher #tenantorganizing #rentstrike #rentfreeze #tenantunion
Contact UWA - Northwest Indiana for tenant support at unitedworkers-nwi.frail977@passmail.net
One of the most important threads you'll read here today
#tenantorganizing #LAfires #mutualaid #peoplepower
This is 170 Roehampton in Midtown, a 7-storey co-ownership building that contained 53 residential units. It is a fate destined for so many of the purpose-built affordable rental buildings in Toronto. #demoviction #housingcrisis #tenantorganizing
