📣 JOIN US for our FREE monthly Tenant Rights Clinic 📅Thursday NOV 6 @ 5:30-7:30pm! 📣 Renters can walk in & receive free legal advice. Spread the word! #legalaid #tenantrights #rentersrights 📍Inner City Law Center Offices @ 1309 E 7th St, Los Angeles, CA 90021

📖Congratulations to @challengeineq.bsky.social Associate Faculty Director @kiangoh.bsky.social whose book, "Form and Flow," has been awarded the 2025 Paul Davidoff Book Award by the Association of Collegiate Schools of Planning (ACSP). luskin.ucla.edu/book-by-kian...

"Migrant movements" is a term used in the book, Beyond Sanctuary, that describes movement across borders, but also describes powerful organizing via migrant squats & cross-border solidarity action networks. Listen to the interview with Institute Director Ananya Roy @kpfa.org kpfa.org/episode/agai...

📌REMINDER>> Application deadline>> Wednesday, October 29th for the ninth cohort of the #UCLA Activist-in-Residence program. LA-based community organizers, movement leaders & artists are welcome to apply>> challengeinequality.luskin.ucla.edu/activist-in-...

TODAY, October 17 at 12noon PT via #Stanford Global Studies Division>> Hear from #UCLA Luskin Institute on Inequality and Democracy Associate Faculty Director Hannah Appel. More info + RSVP for this online event>> events.stanford.edu/event/sgs-gl...

Looking forward to this in-person event at #UCLA via @archhousinglab.bsky.social featuring UCLA Luskin Institute on Inequality and Democracy Founding Director, Ananya Roy. Learn more & RSVP>> aud.ucla.edu/news-events/...

We invite you to join us in-person on Friday, November 14th for a convening to discuss our newest publication, BEYOND SANCTUARY, and its relevance to the moment at hand. RSVP>> beyondsanctuary.eventbrite.com

Tenants around the country are being taken advantage of by giant corporate landlords — but we have the power to fight back. Join @debtcollective.bsky.social on Oct. 1st @ 5pm PT/8pm ET to learn more & shift tenant power for the better: debtcollective.org/event/debt-s...

Tenants around the nation are being deceived, taken advantage of and abused by their giant, profit-driven corporate landlords. We've had enough. Join us on October 1st as we announce a new legal-tech tool that could shift tenant power for the better. debtcollective.org/event/debt-s...

📣Announcing the 2026 #UCLA Activist-in-Residence CALL FOR APPLICATIONS in partnership w/the UCLA Asian American Studies Center. Spread the word to LA-based community organizers, movement leaders & artists. Deadline is Oct. 29>> Learn more & apply 👇 challengeinequality.luskin.ucla.edu/activist-in-...

"The rental debt strike borrows from the successful student debt playbook: small groups generating national media attention, moral framing that shifts blame from individuals to institutions, and strategic targeting of powerful actors’ alleged misconduct." www.vox.com/policy/46235...

New: We're sparking a coordinated form of economic resistance that has never been done in the housing space. We're organizing a debt-strike. Rental debtors around the country will refuse to pay their back-rent debt to a giant corporate landlord. And we're going to win.

I had the pleasure of reading the manuscript of Beyond Sanctuary for @dukepress.bsky.social months ago, and I am now thrilled to see it in print. Edited by Ananya Roy and Veronika Zablotsky. Read it, share it, it is really worth it. Free access: read.dukeupress.edu/books/book/3...

As we gear up for the academic year, we're looking back at the 2025 capstone research projects supported by @challengeineq.bsky.social. We're endlessly impressed by the research questions our grad students take on & develop. Read the full reports👇 challengeinequality.luskin.ucla.edu/student-rese...

📖Just out from @dukepress.bsky.social>> Thinking across the U.S. and Europe BEYOND SANCTUARY critically examines liberal democratic policies of sanctuary and asylum and foregrounds migrant movements, those that demand a world beyond borders>> challengeinequality.luskin.ucla.edu/2025/08/20/b...

Joel Montano (@challengeineq.bsky.social) shares best practices for following capital through land, how to connect firms to individuals, and how to map out real estate empires. 🏠📊

🕊️Rest in Power Benito Flores

Brilliant organizers & artists make for brilliant discussions. Shoutouts to #UCLA Activists-in-Residence Lupita Limón Corrales & @jaisuazo.bsky.social for bringing light💫 to struggle @uclaftvarchive.bsky.social. The "(Dis)placement" 📽️series continues thru August>> cinema.ucla.edu/events/displ...

📽️Looking forward to this on Friday, July 18 @ 7:30pm 👇

REMINDER: This Sunday @ 7pm>> "Fluctuations of Home: Short Films From LA to DC" feat. #UCLA Activists-in-Residence @jaisuazo.bsky.social & Lupita Limon Corrales. Proud to co-sponsor this @uclaftvarchive.bsky.social film series, "(Dis)Placement: Fluctuations of Home." cinema.ucla.edu/events/fluct...

If you missed this fascinating talk organized by @davidgraeberinst.bsky.social, tune in at your convenience👇 Featuring our very own Associate Faculty Director Hannah Appel, this brilliant trio explore how the legacies of imperialism & debt continue to shape the world order.

📻Interview w/@challengeineq.bsky.social researcher, Alex Ferrer>> Data from the #TenantPowerToolkit along with interviews reveal significantly disproportionate evictions of Black tenants in LA by REITs which have long-lasting effects on tenants' credit & housing access. www.kcrw.com/news/shows/p...

Thx to @reporterliz.bsky.social for this coverage. Meaningful relationships w/communities on the frontlines of struggle along w/public scholarship are key to abolishing structures of inequality. Full report co-published w/Venice Justice Committee👇 challengeinequality.luskin.ucla.edu/2025/06/25/k...

“(Dis)placement: Fluctuations of Home” Jul 13–Aug 17 The films in this series examine the fragile, shifting meaning of home — not just as shelter, but as identity, belonging and collective memory — in Los Angeles and global contexts. Free: ucla.in/43Pmv0H Co-presented by @challengeineq.bsky.social

I got (a photo) published in an academic publication. A picture I took on my Olympus XA2 film camera during a bike ride accompanies a wonderful piece about LA and Palestine. @challengeineq.bsky.social pub Insurgent Ground can be found here: escholarship.org/uc/item/6mf8...

"If some ppl prefer living in rundown RVs to the sorts of housing pgms offered, if any are offered to begin with, then govt officials ought to critically question the efficacy of their pgms rather than...destroying residents' vehicles & leaving them on the streets.” lapublicpress.org/2025/06/ucla...

REPORT RELEASE: "Keep Moving" by the Venice Justice Committee & co-published by the Institute. Developed in collaboration w/organizers, community members w/lived experience of vehicle residency & university-based researchers. Report+virtual launch👇 challengeinequality.luskin.ucla.edu/2025/06/25/k...

Earlier this month we celebrated our phenomenal 2025 cohort of #UCLA Activists-in-Residence: Kari Okubo, Romarilyn Ralston, Kaya Dantzler, @jaisuazo.bsky.social & Lupita Limón Corrales! "Turning the university inside out,” they shared invaluable community-rooted knowledge & pedagogy with our campus.

"Through her leadership, CSW not only expanded its institutional impact, but also reaffirmed its commitments to being a refuge for research in social justice and community collaboration." Congrats to our colleague, comrade, and friend, Prof. Grace Hong🔥 csw.ucla.edu/2025/06/11/a...

👇Read this thread and then go read @rahimk.bsky.social's newest publication, "Indefensible Spaces: Policing and the Struggle for Housing." We've added it to our summer reading list 📚

Can't pay, won't pay.

Excited to partner with @uclaftvarchive.bsky.social on the upcoming film series "(Dis)Placement: Fluctuations of Home." Join us for opening night on July 13th with #UCLA Activists-in-Residence @jaisuazo.bsky.social, Lupita Limon Corrales & filmmaker Diego Robles>> cinema.ucla.edu/events/displ...

"Corporate landlords are systematically attracting Black residents into white, upmarket neighborhoods, stripping their wealth, and then kicking them out again." The Institute's own graduate researcher, Alex Ferrer, reveals striking findings with unprecedented data from the #TenantPowerToolkit.

THE RISE OF END TIMES FASCISM My first major piece of the new Trump era, co-written with @astra.bsky.social. The governing ideology of the far right has become a monstrous, supremacist survivalism. Our task is to build a movement strong enough to stop them. www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-i...

What an honor it was to have @naomiaklein.bsky.social give the Institute's Third Annual Distinguished Lecture in Ideas and Organizing. "Climate justice is not a luxury policy for better days. It is how we fight fascism." View her full lecture here>> challengeinequality.luskin.ucla.edu/naomi-klein/

So excited for this!! Naomi Klein at @challengeineq.bsky.social

Hot off the press🔥"Insurgent Ground: Land, Housing, Property"📚An edited volume of collective scholarship from Freedom School 2024, which brought together a phenomenal group rooted in movements and engaged in organizing knowledge towards liberation. challengeinequality.luskin.ucla.edu/2025/05/05/i...

As authorities in Oregon displace over 100 vehicle residents and provide no alternative place to go, all in the name of environmental management, it is worth revisiting Institute fellow Sam Lutzker and Deike Peters' call for "multispecies justice" >> metropolitics.org/A-Crisis-of-...

We couldn't be more proud to support work by The Rent Brigade, a group of dedicated scholars & organizers who are exposing the LLCs, trusts, and investment vehicles that are rent gouging folks across LA County, alongside the epic failure of enforcement. Read this➡️ www.rentbrigade.org/report-april...

📣Postdoc opportunity! The selected candidate will develop the research, "Evictions and forced displacements: new urban dynamics from the mobilization of ‘risk’ as a device for territorial restructuring" under the supervision of the incomparable Professor @raquelrolnik.bsky.social 👇

🔥Badass is right! UCLA Activist-in-Residence Lupita Limón Corrales of @latenantsunion.bsky.social made a presentation to a group of tenants, and what became the Mohawk Street Tenants Association grew from there. Read more about this badass group of individuals who are changing policy citywide 👇

Grateful to have @movelbforward.bsky.social Exec Director @jaisuazo.bsky.social as our 2025 #UCLA Activist-in-Residence. Speaking to #UCLA students on the topic of community organizing: "How we organize is based on relationships - relationships are the bedrock of how we approach any social issue."

📣New article out now by Institute graduate researcher, Alex Ferrer, thanks to data generated by the #TenantPowerToolkit, a legal mutual aid collaborative of @debtcollective.bsky.social @challengeineq.bsky.social and the Anti-Eviction Mapping Project. Open access: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Looking forward to hearing from @challengeineq.bsky.social comrade and #UnequalCities researcher, Professor Gautam Bhan, on April 16th👇

🎊Kick off the weekend in Chicago & join the National Public Housing Museum for its grand opening, April 4-6. Thrilled to announce selections from the "Tents and Tenants: After Echo Park Lake" exhibition are on view inside the last remaining building of the Jane Addams Homes: nphm.org/event/grand-...

The National Public Housing Museum opens Friday. While many Chicagoans are familiar with the disinvestment, decaying buildings and gang violence associated with the projects, the museum aims to paint a fuller picture of the history of public housing. www.wbez.org/arts-culture...

C'mon out this Saturday, March 29 to celebrate the closing of the "TENTS AND TENANTS: After Echo Park Lake" exhibition at Skid Row History Museum & Archive. Echo Park Mutual Aid & The Sidewalk Project will host a 🍲potluck + harm reduction teach-in that includes Narcan demo, wound care, and safe use⚕️

Looking forward to the Author Meets Readers for Silicon Valley Imperialism today at the #AAG2025 at 12:50 at 330A Level 3 Huntington Place w @muybarra.bsky.social @desireefields.bsky.social @liviu-chelcea.bsky.social, Ananya Roy, and Magie Ramirez @dukepress.bsky.social @challengeineq.bsky.social

So excited for this book to be out in the world and also to have gotten to be a part of it.

Join us TONIGHT, Friday March 21, 7pm @ Skid Row History Museum & Archive for the final program in our series "The Liberatory Living Room," performed by members of the After Echo Park Lake Archive Collective. Can't make it? View the exhibition pgm: challengeinequality.luskin.ucla.edu/2025/01/22/t...