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…
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…