We’ve put together a reading list on tenant organizing, with useful resources for both new and experienced organizers.
Autonomous Tenant Unions
- 101 Notes on the LA Tenants Union | Commune
- Who is for Tenants?
- The ATUN Tenant Voice – Issue 1
- Tenant Voice summer 2023.pdf – Issue 2
- Toward 100 chapters of the Los Angeles Tenants Union | ROAR Magazine
- Union De Vecinos: 25 Years of Impact on LA’s Tenants Movement
- An Inside Look at Greater Boston Tenants’ Union – BANG.
- Tenant Unions for the Future | Dissent Magazine
Rent Strikes
- Oakland Police Arrest Tenant Council Member As Landlord Steps Up Harassment at Building on Rent Strike | It’s Going Down
- Renew on Merrit Tenant Council Timeline
- Oakland Rent Strike Organized by Tenant Union Ends in Concessions | It’s Going Down
- A Boyle Heights Rent Strike Forged a Path for Other Tenants to Fight Back
- We Won’t Move: Tenants Organize in New York City | Interference Archive
Tenant Organizing Guides
- How to Organize Your Building
- ATUN Organizing Resources
- COVID-19 Tenant Organizing Guide – Philly Tenants Union
- The Tenants Will Win: TANC Pandemic Organizing Guide
- Organizing A Housing Complex: Steps to Getting Started
- Stomp Out Slumlords, Metro DC DSA – No Job, No Rent.pdf
Against The Housing Market
- Race for Profit | Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor | University of North Carolina Press
- The Housing Crisis Is Everywhere | MR Online
Tenant Movements
- The Passion of 964 Park Place
- https://www.solidarity-us.org/pdfs/cadreschool/mcafee.pdf
- You Can’t Evict a Movement: Strategies for Housing Justice in the United States – Viewpoint Magazine
- Could We End Evictions? – Hammer & Hope
- its own peculiar decor by Chris Wright
- Notes on the New Housing Question Home-Ownership, Credit and Reproduction In The Post-War US Economy
Housing Nonprofits, Privatization and the Fiction of ‘Affordable Housing’
- The Revolution Will Not Be Funded – excerpt.
- The Enduring Fiction of Affordable Housing
- Non-Profits in the Coming Struggle – Midwest Socialist
- Mike Davis – Planet of Slums Ch4 excerpt ‘Soft Imperialism’ p. 75
Tenant organizing in Boston
- https://www.marxists.org/history/etol/newspape/atc/v03n01.pdf
- McAfee_CLVU_History.pdf
- Africa in Boston: A critical analysis of Mandela, Massachusetts
Gentrification & Real Estate Activists: YIMBYs
- Dropping the Hammer on YIMBYism
- The Power to Remake Our Cities: An Interview with Samuel Stein – Boston Democratic Socialists of America
- The Market Will Not Fix California’s Housing Crisis – Dissent Magazine
- What Is a YIMBY? (Hint: It’s Not Good) – Housing Is A Human Right
Rentier capitalism
- The Housing Question, ground rent theory, and differentiation vs. homogenization – F. T. C. Manning, 2021
- A Defence of the Concept of the Landowning Class as the Third Class
Tenant Struggle and Internationalism
Palestine Liberation
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