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Private police harass residents at Brookland Manor community event in D.C.
May 25, 2021Property management brings in private cops and city police to charge residents of trespassing in their own front yard.
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New York tenants battle privatization of public housing
December 3, 2020The battle comes into focus in the city’s Chelsea neighborhood.
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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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