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Tenant Organizing
October 19, 2022
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Tracy Rosenthal
The Los Angeles City Council Scandal Is Evidence of a Long War on Tenants
A leaked tape recording council members’ racist slurs demonstrates the deep alliance between real estate interests and the state.
October 11, 2021
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Saritha Ramakrishna
When Bad Weather and Bad Landlords Collide
Climate resilience efforts tend to focus on homeowners, but tenants are much more vulnerable.
August 11, 2021
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Esther Wang
The Eviction Moratorium Was Written for the Perfect Tenant. They’re Often Hard to Find.
The latest federal policy, like its predecessors, was written with holes big enough for many housing-insecure renters to fall through. These are the stories from the mess.
July 26, 2021
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Esther Wang
The Pandemic Cliff Is a Manufactured Crisis
As Covid relief programs are set to expire this fall, millions of people are newly facing eviction and mounting debts. Why pretend the pandemic is over?
April 2, 2021
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Tracy Rosenthal
The Enduring Fiction of Affordable Housing
These public-private partnerships skate by on their complexity and branding, but they undermine a future where housing is a right.
April 1, 2021
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Marie Solis
The Eternal Quest for the Unicorn Apartment
Why we gawk at stories about rent-controlled apartments, and how the basics—a secure, affordable roof over one’s head—became the stuff of fantasy
March 30, 2021
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Chris Moody
The Agony and the Ecstasy of Living Nowhere
As more people are giving up traditional addresses for life on the road, some find themselves wondering if they escaped the grind or just found a new one.
March 16, 2021
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Bryce Covert
Why Landlords Target Mothers for Eviction
Mothers are being evicted far more frequently than other Americans. This is the hidden story of America's looming housing crisis.
November 7, 2020
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Melissa Gira Grant
,
Nick Martin
,
Katie McDonough
,
J.C. Pan
The Election Is Over. Here’s a Vision From the Left for the Next Four Years.
Organizers and thinkers on where we are in the major fights of our moment—from prison abolition to climate justice and the housing crisis—and where we go next.
July 31, 2020
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Francisco Pérez
,
Luis Feliz Leon
The End of Housing as We Know It
In the face of compounding crises, tenants and housing organizers see an opportunity to pry open the real estate industry’s grip on our cities.
March 30, 2020
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Daniel Boguslaw
Rent Strike Nation
Interest in tenant activism has surged in the face of the coronavirus. Organizers are trying to seize the moment and build a movement.
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