It's hard to express what it meant to watch Maurice, Natalia, Celeste, and Rhea tell their stories—in their own voices—this morning. The segment revealed a brutal reality: homelessness at this scale isn't about personal failure. It's the result of policy choices and systems built to exploit people.

Housing organizers warn against putting people out “as long as I.C.E. is in our city.” https://bit.ly/4oGuo1C

Today LA City Council voted to strengthen the LA rent stabilization law, so that increases will range from 1-4% instead of the current rule, 3-8%. This will affect hundreds of thousands of households. Congrats & thank you to everyone who fought so hard to win this! laist.com/news/housing...

Just published! Rent Strikes: A history of collective tenant actions across the world, the book I edited with @hannesrolf.bsky.social, is out now from @uclpress.bsky.social It's OPEN ACCESS, part of the "Work Around the World" series by @iisg-amsterdam.bsky.social uclpress.co.uk/book/rent-st...

On Wednesday, LA City Council will vote on strengthening the Rent Stabilization Ordinance, the law that protects hundreds of thousands of tenants from giant rent increases. Please make calls & send emails in support of the changes today, & join us on Wednesday at 8am at City Hall! bit.ly/captherent

After DHS agents descended upon a Home Depot in Los Angeles, @latenantsunion.bsky.social spent the summer experimenting. @city.bsky.social reports on how organizers built a long-term protective presence for Issue No. 8 hammerandhope.org/article/los-...

It's been 5 months since the federal siege of LA began. In recent weeks, raids have not been as widely reported as they were over the summer. Community defense teams witnessed a dramatic uptick in kidnappings in Ktown, Pico-Union, MacArthur Park, Mid City, & Downtown LA @lataco.bsky.social

He said there was no room to sleep. People sat up, slept on the floor, standing up. He saw many pregnant women there too. The conditions were unbearable. His wife is horrified by his account.

Her husband was at Broadview one month and she was never able to talk to him. Not until he was already in Mexico. He had been in Chicago for 20 years. Her husband shared that the numbers of people there were astounding. It just makes me think how many people that are not counted/just disappeared.

Her husband told her that detainees at Broadview had to get up at 5am to get in line for one bathroom. He often peed himself. One time he had to wait until 2pm to use the bathroom. You could only use the bathroom once a day. He said the agents would beat you if you used the bathroom on yourself.

He said that the agents would throw food at them to eat. The agents threatened to withhold food for a week and to beat him up if he didn't sign deportation papers. He said he saw others refuse and get beaten/receive no food. He signed because he was afraid.

DAILY MEMO: Border Patrol Snatches Multiple People in Salvadoran Corridor Raid, Including a U.S. Citizen 🧵 2 parts

Ten Years in the Tenant Power Movement A conversation among several tenant organizers who helped start the LA Tenants Union: radioultrared.substack.com/p/ten-years-...

Organizing for and with solidarity works.

Thanks to its tenant unions, Los Angeles County could be on the verge of enacting an eviction moratorium to hit back against Donald Trump’s "mass deportation" raids.

The Virgil Square Tenants Association in Koreatown is 5 months into a RUBS utilities strike against their landlord Equity Residential. @debtcollective.bsky.social shelterforce.org/2025/10/10/l...

On Saturday October 11th at 2pm, tenant leaders from Hillside Villa, who won their FIVE YEAR LONG RENT STRIKE, will be speaking at Midnight Books. Join us!

New on Knock: with immigrant communities still reeling from the fascist raids, the Los Angeles Tenants Union is calling on the Board of Supervisors to pass an eviction moratorium to protect their homes. The proposal will be further discussed at the October 7 BoS meeting knock-la.com/latu-urges-b...

We just built a NEW tech tool that *any current or former tenant* in the entire country can use for free — it will generate a legal letter for you that reports to collections agencies, credit bureaus and regulatory agencies. Go to reportmylandlord.org to fight back.

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...