Zeni Perez’s Reviews > Abolish Rent: How Tenants Can End the Housing Crisis > Status Update

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

“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

A home owners net worth is usually 40x a tenant’s 🙃