Tenant Rights

Movements Cannot Shy Away From Conflict

July 15, 2026 Yotam Maron, Waging Nonviolence. Strategize! Conflict avoidance, New York City (NYC), Rent Freeze, Tenant Rights

The truth is, most of the groups and organizations that make up our movements do not have a strategy for winning. They might think they have a strategy. They might tell themselves they have one. They certainly tell their funders or dues-paying members they do, and on their websites there is plenty of stuff written under the header “Our Strategies.” They have mission statements, vision statements or other grandiose paragraphs in flowing prose that say what they think they’re doing. They have lists of programs — the things they do, hope to do or once did.

New York City’s Rent Freeze: Who Benefits? What’s Next?

July 8, 2026 Olivia Wood, Left Voice. Educate! Affordable Housing, New York City (NYC), Rent Freeze, Tenant Rights

You may have seen the headlines: the rent in New York City is frozen! Mayor Zohran Mamdani has achieved one of his major campaign proposals. But the text underneath the headlines reveals the limits and complications, well known to those familiar with New York’s rent stabilization system, yet opaque to others. The rent freeze will bring welcome relief to many tenants, and was only made possible through the organizing of thousands of New Yorkers who are fighting for a more affordable city for themselves and their neighbors. Yet the rent freeze alone will not fix New York’s crisis of affordable housing.

Real Estate Merger Poised To Create Local Apartment Monopolies

June 23, 2026 Rebecca Burns, In These Times. Educate! Affordable Housing, Los Angeles, Monopolies, Tenant Rights

A$69 billion merger between two real estate behemoths is set to create the largest publicly traded apartment landlord in U.S. history, dramatically expanding the market power of two firms that have been sued repeatedly over alleged tenant abuses and illegal price-fixing. Together, real estate investment trusts (REITs) AvalonBay Communities and Equity Residential own more than 180,000 apartments nationwide, with another 20,000 under development. Were these two companies banks or broadcast networks or grocery stores, their merger would face mandatory review by federal regulators.

The Student Tenant Union Movement Is Spreading To Appalachia

June 18, 2026 Anabel Peterman, Next City. Organize! Higher Education, Student Activism, Tenant Rights, Tenant Unions

For Morehead State University students Allison ‘Al’ Belter and Madi Reffitt, residents of the university dorms aren’t just students: As people who pay a property owner to inhabit a residence, they’re tenants, too. With tenant unionization picking up steam in Kentucky and around the country, students organizing through Kentucky Tenants’ MSU chapter are calling on the university to provide better living conditions for their tenants. The student organization is bringing its demands to Morehead State’s Board of Regents this summer, after months of preparing their campaign.

In Eugene, Housing Advocates Call For Tenant Right To Purchase Act

June 16, 2026 Steve Dubb, Grassroots Economic Organizing. Strategize! City Council, Housing, Oregon, Tenant Rights

Jeff Albanese, program director at SquareOne Villages, an affordable housing co-op developer in Eugene, Oregon, notes that Oregon’s housing crisis has become so severe that it has vastly expanded the range of the possible. “There’s a lot of stuff that is on the table, including TOPA [tenant opportunity to purchase act] and social housing. We have [a] statewide rent control law now in Oregon,” he says. “Ten years ago, that just wasn’t on the table.” One sign of what Albanese is referencing: During a February work session, the Eugene City Council voted by a unanimous 7–0 margin to “ask the city manager to bring back more information on the Tenant Opportunity to Purchase Act for the council to discuss as a rental protection.”

Montana Trailer Park Tenants Go On A Rent Strike

May 4, 2026 Rebecca Burns, In These Times. Resist! Landlords, Montana, Rent Strike, Tenant Rights, Trailer Park

Facing dramatic rent hikes and a sale to an anonymous investor, residents of two Montana trailer parks are launching a rent strike this May Day, likely the first such action in the state in decades. Tenants of King Arthur and Mountain Meadows Parks in Bozeman, Mont., will kick off their strike today with a May Day rally, echoing thousands of other protests and economic disruptions planned nationwide. For resident Debi Rooks, 64, it’s a powerful new chapter of the labor union traditions she grew up with. Rooks’ father was a union leader in Minnesota, and as a child, she watched both of her parents spend their weekends supporting workers out on picket lines.

Mobile Home Residents Demand Kingsley Corporation Get Out

March 25, 2026 Rain Mendoza, Fight Back! News. Resist! California, Housing, Landlord, Tenant Rights

Santa Ana, CA – On Saturday, March 21, Coach Royal Mobile Home residents protested at the entrance of the mobile home park. The protest was in response to yearslong abuse at the hands of the park managers, eviction, and theft of mobile homes by Kingsley Corporation. There was also a recent suicide of resident Maria Pedraza due to the abuse. The Coach Royal residents are majority working-class immigrants. The protest started strong with residents and supporters from Community Service Organization Orange County (CSO OC) protesting in front of the Coach Royal entrance.

Connecticut Tenants Union Launches Boycott Of Real Estate Giant

February 3, 2026 Louis Henry, People's World. Resist! boycott, Connecticut, Housing, Landlord, Tenant Rights, Tenants Union

East Lyme, Conn.—The Connecticut Tenants Union and its working-class allies have launched a boycott of Alpha Capital. In a petition to support the boycott, the Tenants Union is calling on all people to refuse to engage in business with Alpha Capital. Refuse to rent apartments, refuse to buy condos, refuse to sell or buy properties with this horrible landlord, they say. Over the last year, tenant unions in Southeast Connecticut have gone public, demanding that their landlord, Alpha Capital Funds, come to the table to negotiate fair leases and address tenant needs. In response, Alpha is trying to bust organized, multi-racial, and multi-generational communities.

After A Six-Year Struggle, Boston Tenants Won Permanent Affordability

August 4, 2025 Sandra Larson, Next City. Organize! Affordable Housing, Boston, Landlords, Tenant Rights

After a yearslong standoff with a large corporate landlord who had imposed sharp rent increases after purchasing their complex, a group of tenants in Boston’s Mattapan neighborhood have scored an unusual victory: long-term affordable housing. For six years, tenants who live at the Fairlawn Estates complex organized, sought to negotiate lower rent increases, and staged protests and rallies with strong support from City Life/Vida Urbana, a housing justice nonprofit that’s been organizing low-income tenants in the Boston area for more than 50 years. The situation took a turn in March 2025 when the building went up for sale again.

Missouri Tenants Suing To Keep Their Homes In Federal Tax Credit Program

June 18, 2025 Hope Davis, Next City. Resist! Affordable Housing, Housing, Missouri, Tax Credit, Tenant Rights, Tenant Union

Ramona Teeter planned to live at the Rosewood Estates, her home for nearly two decades, for the rest of her life. The 79-year-old is bold, direct, and does not fear asking questions. So six years ago, when the Springfield, Missouri, subdivision became eligible to leave the federal low income housing tax credit program, Teeter asked management if they had plans to opt out. Teeter says she was reassured that her affordable housing was safe. Now, she’s a leader in a Springfield tenants union suing their landlords to keep their homes past 2026, after the properties’ owner quietly left the affordable housing program.

Two Tenant Unions, One Rent Strike

May 17, 2025 Rebecca Burns, In These Times. Strategize! Chicago, Gentrification, Housing, Tenant Rights

Most of the milestones of Anay Herrera’s adult life have taken place within walking distance of the apartment complex in Chicago’s Buena Park neighborhood where she’s lived for more than two decades. All five of her children were born at a nearby hospital and attended the elementary school down the street, where her two youngest, twins, are now in kindergarten. She took computer and GED classes at the local community college and now works part-time as a cashier at a restaurant a few blocks away. She’s come to know almost all of her neighbors, some of whose children have grown up with hers, and invites them over for homemade pozole and tinga.

Tenants On The March: An Interview With Cea Weaver

March 28, 2025 Andrew Elrod, Dissent Magazine. Strategize! Housing, New York City (NYC), Tenant organizing, Tenant Rights, Tenants

In many parts of the country, rising rents have hit a political limit, as politicians, unions, and community organizations increasingly recognize the centrality of housing to the cost-of-living crisis. New York State’s 2019 Housing Stability and Tenant Protection Act, San Francisco’s 2022 collective bargaining ordinance for tenants, and Los Angeles’s 2022 “mansion tax” represent new forces in local politics—and alternative bases for the struggle over power within our society. These initiatives use the state to reshape the business models and ownership patterns pushing workers and their families further away from their jobs, into smaller, more expensive living situations.

Landlords Fined $80K For Threatening To Call ICE On Chicago Tenants

March 8, 2025 Zane McNeill, Truthout. Resist! Chicago, ICE, Illinois, Immigrant Rights, Landlords, Tenant Rights, Victory

An Illinois circuit court judge has ordered Chicago landlords to pay former tenants $80,000 after they threatened to report the tenants to U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) in June 2020. The decision is the first under the state’s 2019 Immigrant Tenant Protection Act (ITPA), which prohibits landlords from using a tenant’s immigration status to harass or intimidate them. “This decision provides a measure of justice to a family facing a landlord willing to threaten to call federal immigration authorities in the belief that it would scare tenants,” Thomas A. Saenz, MALDEF president and general counsel, said in a statement.

Abolish Rent, Yes, For Real

January 28, 2025 Fran Quigley, Waging Nonviolence. Strategize! Housing, Los Angeles, Rent, Tenant Rights, Tenant Unions

The largest tenant union in the country is responding quickly and passionately to the devastation of the Los Angeles fires. The LA Tenants Union is demanding not just enforcement of existing California protections against price gouging of rental homes, but a moratorium on evictions and a rent freeze, all while tenants are coming together with heroic levels of mutual aid. But these steps will only mitigate a perpetual struggle, as union co-founders Tracy Rosenthal and Leonardo Vilchis write in their new book “Abolish Rent: How Tenants Can End the Housing Crisis.” “Why do tenants wake up every month and have to pay rent?” they ask.

«1 2 3 4 »

assetto corsa mods

Daily movement news and resources