Status Updates From Abolish Rent: How Tenants C...

Very excited to read this one. As someone who is currently working in homeless services and is very aware that we are about to enter an even more severe housing crisis, with housing first programs being cut, a tenant’s union intrigues me. My concern is that this is too LA focused to be relative to the rest of the US, and may suffer from leftists being out of touch in other parts of the country

Privately owned, publicly subsidized housing doesn’t work. Tenants get displacement once their section 8 covenant expires. Encampment allow unhoused people to make their own democratic alternative to poor housing that’s overcrowded & restrictive.

Police are retroactive & usually agitators. Community keeps each other safe

Organized units of power help social & economic sanctions