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

Relying on policy to help renters fight the majority of landowners that “represent” them is giving up their own agency to let an expect help them as best they can. Organizing is better, individuals just get ignored like someone complaining about a sink needing to be fixed

Rent striking really had a landlord trying to weed them out one by one but united they stand 🙂‍↕️

“Crime free housing” ordinances give police power to tell a landlord to evict someone… so basically getting POC out of a neighborhood because a white person complains about their existence

Learning about the U.S. history of property is unsurprisingly capitalist, racist, & colonizing.

The life expectancy of an unhoused person is 48 years. 30 years short of average