“Here we are living and working in one of the most expensive areas in the United States. We have no eviction protections. There is no rent control,” he said. “This is a precarious life for tenants.” Read more at The Harvard Crimson!
Image from Danielle Parhizkaran / The Boston Globe “The most important right is the right to organize.” Head over to Boston.com or The Boston Globe to learn more!
Starting a tenants union can begin by simply as talking to your neighbors, Cameron W., an organizer with the Greater Boston Tenants Union told Boston.com. Get to know each other and learn about any common issues you share regarding the property or the landlord, he said. … Read more at Read more…
A wealthy philanthropist donated four apartment buildings in L.A.’s Baldwin Hills to Boston University. The school wanted to sell the buildings to the highest bidder – but tenants had a better idea. Head over to Next City or Popular Resistance to learn more!
Boston University, who gained ownership of four apartment complexes in Los Angeles last year, agreed to sell the buildings to the Liberty Community Land Trust on Jan. 10, allowing residents to collectively own their homes. Over 130 residents live in the four buildings, located on Corbett Street and Clemson Street Read more…
On a suspiciously warm November weekend, the Democracy Center was home to the Boston Anarchist Book Fair, which event organizer Brian Moen describes as “a bunch of anarchists and anarchist-adjacent people coming together to build solidarity.” Walking through the fair, almost all of the slogans encouraged disrupting the order in Read more…
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 in a Sept. 17, 2014 GlobeSt.com website article, John Jordan noted that Read more…
Fineberg Tenant Union member Dan Albright gets interviewed by GBH during a rally. Follow Fineberg TU’s Twitter!
In February, members of the LaCourt Tenants Union, an organization of LaCourt Realty LLC tenants and community supporters, protested LaCourt’s lawsuit against a former tenant, Alona Brosh, who the company sued for $28,875 of “unpaid rent.” Since then, the LCTU has continued organizing against evictions and rent increases, claiming LaCourt Read more…
In March, Somerville landlord Mouhab Rizkallah sued the editors of The Tufts Daily, the university’s independent student newspaper, for libel. Rizkallah alleged the paper refused to correct part of a story about him that he says implies he was lying. The parties have now come to an agreement and had Read more…