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.
The Uprising in China
A Chinese activist analyzes the causes of the unprecedented wave of protest and unrest across China.
Speculating on Race
Samantha Iyer warns against the romanticization of the age of the welfare state, arguing that the policies of those decades were a historical basis—rather than an alternative—to 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.
