tenants
California legislature passes compromise pandemic anti-eviction bill
September 4, 2020The new measure, Assembly Bill 3088, was introduced by a team of legislators including Assemblymember David Chiu, D-San Francisco, who had authored a much farther-reaching measure, AB 1436, in February.
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Brookland Manor, D.C.’s largest affordable housing community, is under attack
August 18, 2020MidCity Financial, the corporate real-estate firm that is the developer and owner of the property where Brookland Manor is located, has been pushing a redevelopment plan—and pushing residents out—since 2014.
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D.C. activists hoping to jump-start organizing among the unemployed
July 23, 2020The Claudia Jones School for Political Education recently hosted an Unemployment and Tenant Organizing Town Hall for residents in the D.C.-Maryland-Virginia (DMV) area.
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New York’s public and private housing tenants join forces
October 24, 2019Cold rain and classic Manhattan sewer water puddles couldn't stop more than 300 tenants from attending a statewide coalition meeting last Wednesday.
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Tenants give 30-day notice to landlord-tied lawmakers in Albany
May 17, 2019“I’ve lived my whole life — 25 years — without a single day of housing security. I grew up in one of the worst slumlord buildings in New York City. Eviction still hovers over us every...
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