On Oct 1, @debtcollective.bsky.social is taking on one of the country's biggest landlords by launching: ⚡ Debt Strike: Brave individuals who owe back-rent will collectively refuse to pay. ⚡ A new tool for renters to fight debt + junk fees Debtors are organizing. RSVP: bit.ly/DebtStrike2025

ICE agents abducted Chicago day laborer Willian Gimenez—who is suing off-duty cops for violence at Home Depot. Advocates say his arrest is retaliation for speaking out.

It's been another morning of terror in Chicagoland. ICE is snatching people across burbs + city. More cars abandoned on the side of the road, & more day laborers disappeared. A van rolls into the Broadview "processing facility." After gates close, agents move 3 men in shackles into the building.

EVICTION MORATORIUM NOW! The County Board of Supervisors voted 4-0 on a motion to explore eviction moratorium options today. They put it on the agenda last minute, after we packed the room at their meeting on rent relief last week to instead demand an eviction moratorium! laist.com/news/housing...

Last week the LA County Board of Supervisors was set to discuss rent relief - instead we filled the room with people demanding an eviction moratorium. They will vote on exploring options tomorrow.

Tomorrow the @lacountybos.bsky.social will vote on "exploring options for an eviction moratorium" across all of LA County in response to the economic crisis caused by the ICE raids. This motion was put on the agenda after we filled the meeting on Wednesday to tell them rent relief isn't enough.

Los Angeles teachers are patrolling the streets, linking w immigration/ tenants’ advocates, and repurposing lockdown policies designed to protect students from active shooters or wildfires — all to protect them from ICE @jessicaschulberg.bsky.social and I report www.huffpost.com/entry/los-an...

DISAPPEARED AND DISPLACED: ICE Pushes L.A. Tenants Towards Eviction New report from the Rent Brigade with a LATU foreword: static1.squarespace.com/static/67931...

How many people are going to become homeless because City Attorney Hydee Feldstein Soto has a personal grudge against the Legal Aid Foundation? laist.com/news/housing...

my landlord started this shit a few months ago and now suddenly i owe $100 more per month for absolutely no reason

After 3 months on RUBS strike - paying rent but not crazy utility bills - the Virgil Square Tenants Association in Koreatown has gotten more than $20,000 returned to tenants for what their landlord Equity Residential says were "higher-than-expected" costs over 18 months! BANRUBS.ORG

We are collecting funds to support the families of the people who were kidnapped at the Home Depot on Wilshire yesterday in flagrant violation of the TRO. Venmo @ latenants (under 'businesses') with the tag 'MP.' Thank you.

Today we rallied outside & disrupted the Board of Supervisors meeting to demand: EVICTION MORATORIUM NOW! (1/3)

"Organized by LA Tenants Union Koreatown Local, it's part reading materials, part collective action. Friendly faces help new volunteers or anyone seeking info on immigrant rights. Groups go out in shifts to do community patrols, while others hand out “Know Your Rights” cards to vendors."

Desde el terreno, una organizadora socialista —angelina indocumentada y militante de @latenantsunion.bsky.social — escribe: "Hoy su arma es una pistola ‘menos letal’; ayer fue un salario por debajo de la mesa, el aumento del alquiler y el desalojo." bayareacurrent.com/esto-no-es-n...

Demands from the L.A. Tenants Union Read our full statement on instagram @ latenants

Read the article here. I wanted to spell out its jaw-dropping findings, hear from tenants who have dealt with these landlords, and cover the way @latenantsunion.bsky.social and @debtcollective.bsky.social are using the data to fight back. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Corporate landlords appear to be systematically attracting Black residents into white, upmarket neighborhoods with favorable deals, stripping their wealth, and then kicking them out again. prospect.org/infrastructu...

A new study shows that large corporate landlords in LA are disproportionately evicting Black tenants in the post-pandemic housing market. The findings are disturbing, but they also raise possibilities for tenant organizing. I wrote about it for @prospect.org. prospect.org/infrastructu...

Under LA’s housing regulations, landlords may use the Ratio Utility Billing System (RUBS), where the building’s total cost of utilities are divided among tenants rather than included as a flat fee. But some tenants say that landlords abuse this system.

Happy May Day! ¡Ganaremos esta lucha, cueste lo que cueste!

ALL OUT FOR MAY DAY! The L.A. Tenants Union will be meeting up at Grand Hope Park on May 1 before joining the May Day Coalition march. Join us!

Online today @thenation.com (and I think, on the cover of the physical magazine soon) - a story I began writing in 2023. O Movimento dos Trabalhadores Rurais Sem Terra (MST): www.thenation.com/article/worl...

Interested in starting a new tenant organization in your neighborhood or city? Organizers from @vancouvertenants.bsky.social, Puget Sound Tenants Union, and @latenantsunion.bsky.social will present & lead a discussion. Sunday April 13, 4:30 / 7:30 Register at bit.ly/ATUN-april13

The tenants and the defenders of the earth (often peasants), fighting to sustain their lives against landed, state, and capitalist exploitation, violence, "making our community by defending it," and in so doing they convivir, they commune spectrejournal.com/convivir-a-s...

In "Convivir, a Synonym for Commune?" my latest on @journalspectre.bsky.social I wrote about @city.bsky.social & Leonardo Vilchis's Abolish Rent & Kristin Ross's The Commune Form, starting from a revived communist theme via @tenantpower.bsky.social—the abolition of the separation of town and country

If you couldn't pay rent in February because you lost income because of the fires, or can't pay rent in March, the new protections we pushed for may prevent you from being evicted. Read more here - click 'Resolution FAQs' and 'Self-Certification Form' dcba.lacounty.gov/rentstabiliz...

Eviction Defense Network lawyers work incredibly hard to make sure as many tenants as possible get help fighting their evictions. Many of our members are in their homes partly because of EDN's help. It is an amazing operation. Please spread the word that they are hiring!

LA Tenants Union is pretty amazing (@latenantsunion.bsky.social). Nothing like participating in confrontational eviction defense with a bunch of abuelas who learned during the United Farm Workers action. Talk about people who don't get rattled by cops!

We disrupted their meeting in January, we pushed for a month, today we waited six hours to give public comment, and then finally WE WON eviction protections for all tenants in LA County who were economically affected by the fires!

More than a month into the fires, LA County is finally voting on some eviction protections. Join us on Tuesday at 500 W Temple at noon and/or submit public comment and send emails today! mailchi.mp/latenantsuni...

The LA Tenants Union (LATU)'s response to the wildfires shows us the huge value of tenant organizing in the face of climate disasters. Networks of organized tenants are helping their neighbors, doing mutual aid, enforcing tenant protections, and demanding the policies tenants need to stay safe 🧵

How Tenants in Kingston NY Won a Rent REDUCTION Event hosted by the Autonomous Tenants Union Network on Monday February 17 at 5pm PT / 8pm ET Register at bit.ly/ATUN-feb17

Many of our members lost work because of the fires. Come join us next weekend for a fundraiser in Lincoln Heights hosted by our Lincoln Heights & Pico Union locals, or donate here: www.gofundme.com/f/support-la...

LANDLORDS ARE ORGANIZED, ARE YOU? The landlords are once again rallying to turn out for tomorrow - email from one below. All to preserve their precious right to make other people homeless. If you're off work tomorrow, show up!

ICYMI: We were lucky enough to talk with the Rent Brigade's Chelsea Kirk about rent gouging, disaster capitalism, and tenant organizing.

Tomorrow LA City Council is voting on emergency protections including a pause on rent increases through 2026. This is a county-wide disaster and we need county-wide protections, but this freeze would help hundreds of thousands of people. Send an email here: tinyurl.com/msth9rvs

If you're outraged about price-gouging in Los Angeles in the wake of the fires, do something to support the most vulnerable tenants in the city: Contact Lindsey Horvath and demand an eviction moratorium and a rent freeze (213) 974-3333 [email protected]

Behold the wonderful innovations of the free market where you now can rent a roach-infested room with an app https://www.fastcompany.com/90891909/the-dark-reality-of-the-modern-day-rooming-house

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