Tag: Housing
Book Review
Is Rent the Crisis? On the Tenant Union Movement, Old and New
Holden Taylor reviews Abolish Rent: How Tenants Can End the Housing Crisis.
Holden Taylor
September 24, 2024
abolition
Abolition and Tenant Power in Chinatown
Tenant organizers in LA write about the power of abolitionist politics in the fight against displacement in Chinatown.
Janis Yue and Promise Li
September 18, 2023
Capitalism
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.
Samantha Iyer
January 24, 2021
Anti-capitalism
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.
Justin Gilmore
May 26, 2020
COVID-19
Julian Francis Park and Hyunjee Nicole Kim
May 18, 2020