great article profiling the organizing work of the Pinnacle Tenants Union in NY! newrepublic.com/article/2042...

(1/2) We had a great time at our holiday mixer last week! Longtime members and new folks alike shared a great potluck, reflected on the work SVTU has engaged in this year, and did some visioning for how we will continue to build a powerful tenant movement in 2026 and beyond.

Have a landlord problem or know someone who does? Our next Arden Local tenant solidarity meeting is happening tomorrow, Tuesday, at 6:30pm! Come connect, share experiences, ask questions, and support one another in addressing housing challenges. Together we can build power!

Want to get involved with SVTU? the best way is through joining us to door knock! We will be out tonight in the Arden Arcade neighborhood! Shoot us a dm if you want to join! No experience necessary and we always knock doors in pairs :)

got a landlord problem? our next Tenant Solidarity Meeting will be happening in South Sacramento tomorrow (Saturday 12/6) from 11am - 1pm at 5944 44th St Sacramento CA. Join us and help spread the word!

🚨 BREAKING: Days after Exxon asked SCOTUS to give corporations a First Amendment right to hide pollution, RealPage is now arguing that AI companies have a First Amendment right to help landlords collude to raise rents.

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...

This means that some 70,000 American tenants' rent money is being funneled, in part, into a company linked to the displacement and genocide of Palestinians 6,000 miles away, while facing rent hikes and eviction filings themselves. (10/10) Read it all here: www.thenation.com/article/soci...

For @thenation.com and @typeinvestigations.org, I looked into American Landmark, a major landlord filing evictions far more than the national average. I found they are owned by an Israeli company with ties to the IDF, including during the Gaza genocide. (1/10) www.thenation.com/article/soci...

Our next Arden Local Meeting is taking place tomorrow (Tuesday) night at 6:30pm, 3532 Whitney Ave. Got a landlord problem or know someone who does? Send them our way!

“Low-income tenants who rely on food stamps to feed their families will be immediately faced with difficult choices..." Round up of strategies and protections under federal law to prevent evictions due to loss of SNAP benefits courtesy of @nhlp.bsky.social www.nhlp.org/wp-content/u... #housing+

I don’t live in DPH anymore but when I did and I had issues with a fucked up landlord, I reached out to Sac Tenant Union (former iteration, many of the same ppl) and they were hella there for me and helped me win a standoff. I’m so glad my old neighborhood is getting organized now, it is so needed!

we'll also be tabling at this event later this afternoon - come say hi! 👋👋👋 www.eventbrite.com/e/one-hundre...

Del Paso Heights! SVTU is hosting our first tenants meeting in the neighborhood Sunday October 26th 2-4 PM at Triangle Park. This is a space for neighbors to gather talk about the issues they're experiencing. We've heard about challenges like busted mailboxes, pests, and mold!

want to stay up to date on everything we are doing? check out our linktree! linktr.ee/sacvalleyten...

details for South Sac (tomorrow, Monday evening, 6pm!): calendar.app.google/bEo2z1KMeX1s...

we've been having great convos w tenants all over the city as we knock doors to get the word out about our tenants solidarity meetings. we'll be out 3 evenings this week! tomorrow in South Sac, Tuesday in Del Paso Heights, and Thursday in Arden. DM or text 916-572-4223 for more details!

🗣️ SVTU is hitting the streets this month to talk to neighbors and get the word out about our locals in Arden, South Sac, and Del Paso Heights. Join us for our next canvass! 📍Sunday Oct 19, 2-4pm meet at Panadería La Jerezana in Del Paso Heights text 916-572-4223 for deets

Catch SVTU at the Anarchist Bookfair TOMORROW, Saturday Oct 11, from 10am - 7pm at Flower Fist Market, 1819 E St Sacramento. We'll be tabling all day w great zines and swag. We've also organized a panel at 3pm about how to organize your neighbors (1/2).

Want to get more involved with SVTU? Join us at our first general meeting in October, happening in person at 1714 Broadway St, Sacramento, CA, on Wednesday October 1 from 6:30-8:30pm!

1/5 Join the Sacramento Valley Tenants Union and the Palms Apartments Tenant Association this Thursday from 4-5:30pm as we rally in front of Supervisor Rich Desmond’s office to say END RENOVICTIONS NOW and STOP THE PALMS EVICTIONS! 📍 700 H Street, 95814

1/5 Join the Sacramento Valley Tenants Union and the Palms Apartments Tenant Association this Thursday from 4-5:30pm as we rally in front of Supervisor Rich Desmond’s office to say END RENOVICTIONS NOW and STOP THE PALMS EVICTIONS! 📍 700 H Street, 95814

Our @soundsofsolidarity.bsky.social fundraiser is happening TOMORROW, Saturday Sept 20 from 5-9pm at Sol Collective! We are so appreciative to SOS fro doing this for us - throw the union a few $$, have a good time, and get your self some art and/or a Bully Your Landlord tshirt!

At our general meeting this Wednesday, SVTU is hosting a training by LA Tenants Union member Rene Moya on @debtcollective.bsky.social's Tenant Power Toolkit. This tool can help us block bogus evictions & buy time to get organized, fight back, and stay rooted in our communities!

In June, dozens of tenants in Los Angeles went on utility strike — they refused to pay their utility bills and demanded the landlord provide transparency as to how the bills are counted. Three months into the strike, the landlord returned more than $25,000 back to these tenants.

Huge win ‼️ This is Mac. His corporate landlord just back-credited his account with over $700 after dozens of tenants in his building went on utility strike back in June. The whole building got back over $25,000 in a concession by their corporate landlord Equity Residential.

LA Tenants are going into month four—this September—of a utility strike. Why? They’re fed up with RUBS: a scam ratio utility billing system that evenly divides a building’s utility usage among tenants without any formulaic explanation. 70% of the building is on strike.

These LA tenants saw some utility fees double. So they went on strike. The controversial billing system their landlord uses was banned in West Hollywood three years ago. lapublicpress.org/2025/08/la-t...

SVTU has been having a busy summer from canvasses to tenant association meetings to events and we've got more cooking! Come join us at our General Meeting tomorrow night, our Tenants' Solidarity Workshop next Tuesday, or the "Your Rights Explained" event we are putting on at the Library on Aug 30!

We need to draw attention to a new, exploding type of household debt that only recently emerged: it's called rent debt—or "back rent debt," and it didn't really exist before COVID at all. It's getting little attention in housing discourse and media coverage. We'll explain it.

We've been coordinating a utility-bill strike in a small town you might have heard of—Los Angeles. Dozens of folks across multiple buildings have paid rent—but have *withheld* their utility bill payments. Today marks Day 75 of the strike. We think we're on the verge of a win.

We looked into it and found quite a few PAMA properties right here in Sacramento. If you want to join the fight against slumlords like this, join us at a meeting soon! Check out our map here: www.google.com/maps/d/edit?...

Tenants in Los Angeles unfurling banners outside of their units as they announce they’re going on utility strike against their landlord Equity Residential — the 5th largest corporate landlord in the U.S. Nearly 60 units across 2 buildings are now withholding utility payments 👀

News: With the Los Angeles Tenant Union, we're organizing a historic strike against the 5th largest corporate landlord in the United States — and the largest in L.A. Today, dozens of tenants across two Los Angeles buildings are refusing to pay their utility bills to Equity Residential.

The Palms Tenants have been fighting displacement for over a year now and as Ms. Jackie says in the clip, "That's the whole thing in a nutshell: we do not want to leave this place. This is our home!" youtu.be/ycqlwlvEh1M?...

Announcing our amazing co-hosts for the Palms Tenants' Anti-Eviction Block Party THIS SUNDAY! @sacpunkshows.bsky.social will be hosting the food distro and @norcalresist.bsky.social will be tabling with fresh produce 🥰🌱✊ We hope to see you there!

RUBS is something we've heard about a LOT in Sacramento! It's impossible to plan and budget for utility charges that change from month to month and add sometimes hundreds of dollars beyond what tenants signed up to pay in their leases.

We say Abolish RUBS. We're organizing everywhere — but one of our strongest campaigns is happening right now in Los Angeles. Sign the petition or share it with folks who live in California. banrubs.org

In buildings where landlords use RUBS, tenants don't pay for the utilities (electricity, water, gas) they *actually* use in their own apartments. Instead, landlords charge tenants a portion of the alleged total utility costs of the entire building according to a formula.

Join us for the Anti-Eviction Block Party hosted by the Palms Tenants to feed their neighbors, share their story, and collect donations for their legal defense fund to stay rooted in their community and not be renovicted. This is a family friendly event for tenants of all ages!

Tenants of the Palms Apartments on Marconi have been fighting a renoviction for months. We looked into it, and it turns out their landlord has been down this road before...

Door knocking opportunity Tuesday 6:30 PM in Arden Arcade. DM or email for location! This is one of the best ways to meet the union and learn about the conditions our neighbors around Sacramento are experiencing.

NEW: We're uncovering a new racist, classist pattern of eviction carried out by corporate landlords in places like Los Angeles — and we're fighting back. prospect.org/infrastructu...

How renters in two Chicago neighborhoods found each other—and fought back—when the same investor planned to displace them.

Inside a Chicago rent strike: new from me for @inthesetimes.com.

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...

"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.

Reminder that our next tenants' rights workshop is happening tomorrow night!

Last week, we held a press conference in Los Angeles with tenants from two buildings. Why? We're taking on Equity Residential — one of the biggest corporate landlords in the country — to push for the banning of a Ratio Utility Billing Systems, known as “RUBS."

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.