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…
A Somerville orthodontist and landlord with a litigious pastis suing two Tufts University student journalists over coverage of a renters’ protest outside his office, claiming a story in the college newspaper defamed him and caused him emotional harm by suggesting he had lied. At issue in the lawsuit, filed in Read more…
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!
A group of 20 tenants, organizers and local supporters holding signs reading “Somervillain” and “LaCourt Lies” marched from the Davis Square T stop to the office of Mouhab Rizkallah, owner of LaCourt Realty and The Braces Place in Somerville, on Feb. 3. The protesters, organized by the LaCourt Tenants Union, Read more…
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 padded around her kitchen, she avoided the spots where the Read more…
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 Shahnoor for an interview (upon which this article is based) Read more…
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 closet that is still lined with contact paper that must Read more…