Rent Strikes, Targeting Tax Breaks, and Data: Tenant Organizing Beyond Legislative Campaigns
In a time of both federal and state legislature intransigence, tenant organizing strategies that emphasize building-level organizing and other creative approaches are gaining ground.
Good Cause Eviction Policies Don’t Hamper Construction, New Research Shows. Legislators Are Still Concerned.
Multiple states have ongoing pushes for good cause eviction protections. A frequent obstacle: a now disproven claim by developers.
Could This Rolling Rent Strike Make the Feds Protect Tenants?
Organizers aim to catalyze a crisis to pressure a major federal housing regulator to lock in tenant protections.
They Had No Heat for Four Months. A New Law Let Them Sue.
In New York state, tenants can now take landlords to court to force repairs and get damages, without withholding rent first. Here’s how one of the first tests of the new law worked.
Affordable Housing Sector Split on Rent Control
In the Twin Cities, where voters have recently supported rent control, most nonprofit housing developers have stayed silent, and some have openly lined up with the developers and landlords who oppose it.
Will ‘Critical Race Theory’ Attacks Undermine Urban Planning Education?
Laws meant to restrict professors from discussing how race has shaped public policy could target the factual discussion of housing policy and its history—but professors say they don’t intend to go along.