Tag: Housing
From Policy as Technocratic Exercise to “Way Station of Tenant Power”
Reflecting on Abolish Rent, Ben Teresa argues that policymaking must become a “way stations of tenant power,” rather than a technocratic adjustment to market realities.
We Keep Each Other Safe and Housed
Maga Miranda interviews the Rent Brigade’s Chelsea Kirk about tenant fightback against rent gouging in the wake of the Los Angeles wildfires.
Is Rent the Crisis? On the Tenant Union Movement, Old and New
Holden Taylor reviews Abolish Rent: How Tenants Can End the Housing Crisis.
Abolition and Tenant Power in Chinatown
Tenant organizers in LA write about the power of abolitionist politics in the fight against displacement in Chinatown.
Speculating on Race
Before we romanticize the age of the welfare state, it’s worth remembering how the policies of those decades are less an alternative to than a historical basis for today’s landscape of racial exclusion.
Class Organization and Rupture on the Terrain of Housing
An organizer with the Oakland-based Tenant and Neighborhood Councils (TANC) argues for a focus on base-building instead of what he characterizes as the two prevailing modes of housing politics: service and advocacy.
