Housing

Have Private Equity Landlords Met Their Match?

A new campaign from the Tenant Union Federation is uniting hundreds of tenants in four states to take on the mega-corporation that owns their homes.

Thomas Birmingham

ViewpointCover Story

The Real Estate Pity Party

Tenant power helped carry Zohran Mamdani to victory—and the landlord lobby is none too pleased.

Thomas Birmingham and Rebecca Burns

HousingPolitics

Will NYC's Long-Suffering Tenants Carry Zohran Mamdani to Victory?

A close look inside the campaign that has helped turn New York City renters into a force to be reckoned with.

Thomas Birmingham

LaborInterview

“Our Biggest Fear”: A Garment Worker Organizer on the ICE Raid That Set Off Mass Protest

“They're picking up folks who were literally just going about making their daily bread and terrorizing them in their place of work," says Marissa Nuncio, director of the Garment Worker Center in Los Angeles.

Thomas Birmingham

Investigation

Hearing: New Haven Testifies On Its Mold Crisis

Less than two months after an In These Times investigation on the nation’s unrecognized mold health care crisis, one city at its center shows signs of taking action.

Thomas Birmingham

FeatureInvestigation

As Corporate Landlords Spread, a Mold Epidemic Takes Root

Chronic mold has become an epidemic as severe as lead paint, but neither cities nor landlords are taking responsibility.

Thomas Birmingham

Labor

Bird Union Workers Tell Audubon Union Busting Won't Fly

More than two years into the fight for a new contract, union members say the National Audubon Society appears to be punishing them by withholding better benefits.

Avalon Edwards and Thomas Birmingham

Dispatch

How a Trailblazing Tenants Union Forced a Mega-Landlord to the Bargaining Table

In less than two weeks, the Blake Street 16 went from facing eviction court to pioneering the first landlord-tenant negotiations in Connecticut's history.

Thomas Birmingham