Housing
Housing
Two Tenant Unions, One Rent Strike
How renters in two Chicago neighborhoods found each other—and fought back—when the same investor planned to displace them.
Rebecca Burns
Housing
Chicago’s Push for “Just Cause” Evictions
A new ordinance would stop landlords from evicting willy-nilly.
Rebecca Burns
LaborDispatchHousing
Home Is Where the Union Is
What tenant unions can learn from labor unions and how they can both work together to win big.
Rebecca Burns
Housing
BREAKING: Seattle Defies Landlord Lobby, Votes to Fund Social Housing
Despite a deluge of corporate cash, the measure to fund an ambitious plan for mixed-income, publicly owned housing appears to have won big.
Rebecca Burns
Housing
Hundreds of Kansas City Tenants Will Strike to Demand Repairs, Rent Caps
Tenants voted to withhold rent on October 1 in a rent strike that could catch fire nationwide.
Rebecca Burns
Housing
Inside the Right’s War on the Homeless
How one Trumpist tech mogul pushed a crackdown on the unhoused all the way to the Supreme Court.
Rebecca Burns
Housing
A National Tenants Union Has Arrived
Local tenants unions are officially teaming up, to the terror of big landlords.
Rebecca Burns
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