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Fineberg tenants union protestors hold a Greater Boston Tenants Union sign at a rally.
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Fineberg Tenants Protest ICA-Linked Landlord’s Greed In Brighton

On its website, the Freddie Mac organization states that “America relies on Freddie Mac to support the housing market and the nation’s renters” and `since being chartered by Congress in 1970, we have fulfilled our mission to…promote housing affordability.” And Read more…

By GBTU, 10 monthsMay 26, 2022 ago
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Tenants in Allston Rally Against Rent Hikes

Fineberg Tenant Union member Dan Albright gets interviewed by GBH during a rally. Follow Fineberg TU’s Twitter!

By GBTU, 10 monthsMay 23, 2022 ago
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Introducing Partisan Magazine’s Tenant Unionist Column

Militant tenants are organizing and fighting across the US. The Tenant Unionist Column, recurring here in Partisan Magazine, will chronicle these ongoing fights against landlords and other real estate capitalists. Head over to Partisan Magazine to read more!

By GBTU, 1 yearMarch 3, 2022 ago
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Could One Determined Former Tenant Bring Down Boston’s Most Infamous Landlord?

After another day of attending online graduate classes from her one-bedroom apartment in the summer of 2020, Mary Stathos rose from her desk to heat up what felt like her millionth can of soup for dinner that week. As she Read more…

By GBTU, 1 yearNovember 17, 2021 ago
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An Inside Look at Greater Boston Tenants’ Union

Greater Boston Tenants’ Union is an anti-capitalist and police abolitionist organization which seeks to build a “world without landlords”—that is to say, a society ruled by the working class. On June 14, Nick Watter of GBTU joined The Gavel’s Albar Read more…

By GBTU, 2 yearsSeptember 8, 2021 ago
Boston - Back Bay: Hancock Tower. View of the Back Bay skyline circa 2004.
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Why Doesn’t Anyone Care If I’m Alive?

It’s August 1, 2019, my first night in my overpriced apartment and I am crying while someone plays “Rock and Roll All Nite” down at the gas station below me. I am unpacking my clothes and placing them into a Read more…

By GBTU, 2 yearsJuly 22, 2021 ago
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Families Brace For Evictions As End Of Federal Moratorium Nears

At the end of June, the federal moratorium on evictions will expire, putting thousands of families in Massachusetts at risk for eviction. Andrea Park is a housing and homelessness staff attorney with the Massachusetts Law Reform Institute. She says the Read more…

By GBTU, 2 yearsApril 13, 2021 ago
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To stay in their homes, tenants are unionizing

Rumors circulated that the landlord wanted everyone out. But Giuliana Perez could not contemplate leaving her two-bedroom apartment, where light pours into the living room, in the middle of a pandemic. What would she do with her elderly mother? How Read more…

By GBTU, 2 yearsMarch 29, 2021 ago
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Why did Renters Protest at the ICA?

Nearly 80 renters and community members turned out last Saturday at the Institute for Contemporary Art/Boston for a one-time matinee. Instead of perusing the museum’s collections, these tenants staged their own gallery exhibit outside with artistic renderings of the shoddy Read more…

By GBTU, 2 yearsMarch 24, 2021 ago
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Tenants Protest ICA Boston Donor Gerald Fineberg

On Saturday, March 20, tenants of art collector and real estate investor Gerald Fineberg staged a pop-up exhibit and rally at the Institute of Contemporary Art (ICA)/Boston to protest squalid conditions and evictions in properties owned and managed by the Read more…

By GBTU, 2 yearsMarch 23, 2021 ago

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