Berkeley Tenants Union - Unionize Your Building
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We defend and advance tenants’ rights through grassroots organizing, outreach, and policy advocacy. Housing must be for people, not profit. #RentControl #SHIMBY
Berkeley, California
Joined June 2017
Come hang out with us, learn how to unionize your building, and fight for affordable housing! We meet the third Sunday of every month!
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RT @UnionDrip: I’m no mathematician, but with over 16 million vacant homes in the U.S. and corporate landlords like Blackstone scooping up….
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RT @davidsirota: Third Way is now yelling at people for using the language that Third Way promotes and uses. You can’t even make this shi….
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California tenants living outside Alameda and Contra Costa counties should call @TenantsTogether at 888-495-8020 for counseling (both for responding to evictions and for general assistance).
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If a landlord threatens eviction for ANY reason, *immediately* email info@berkeleytenants.org w/ subject line "I AM BEING EVICTED" for help. B/c of very unfair legal deadlines for (even illegal) evictions, it's crucial to react ASAP. Do NOT wait to use our clinic for evictions.
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Are you unable to pay rent or having trouble with your landlord? Our next FREE counseling clinic with tenant attorneys for East Bay tenants is THURSDAY, August 28 at 3-5pm! The sign-up deadline is this Sunday, August 24 (i.e. FOUR days beforehand).
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**If your landlord threatens to evict you for ANY reason, immediately email [email protected] with the subject line "I AM BEING EVICTED" so we can provide you help ASAP. (California tenants...
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RT @TenantsTogether: Tenants at LA’s Virgil Square & Mozaic apartments are on strike against Equity Residential’s predatory billing scheme.….
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The controversial billing system their landlord uses was banned in West Hollywood three years ago.
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RT @OAKTenantsUnion: Join OTU next Sunday for a potluck party at Pine Knoll Park by Lake Merritt! Bring your friends, bring your neighbors,….
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Get involved in the tenant movement! Join OTU for a summer potluck.
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RT @TenantsTogether: The DOJ just forced @GreystarApts, the largest landlord in the US, to stop using @RealPage’s rent-fixing software. Pri….
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RT @BerkeleyTenants: BTU Chair @Avery_Arbaugh speaking at the @DemSocialists Convention/@DSA_Housing tenant movement panel, alongside repre….
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RT @spiroferrer: Striking gets the goods! Equity Residential tenants on utility strike in LA have won hundreds of dollars in concessions al….
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RT @seisinenfeoffin: san francisco Dems crawled so trump could run. (pictured:.@LondonBreed .@RafaelMandelman .@mattdorsey .@JoelEngardio….
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RT @DSA_SF: To clear up some confusion we've been hearing: Saikat Chakrabarti is not a DSASF member, doesn't identify as a socialist, and i….
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BTU Chair @Avery_Arbaugh speaking at the @DemSocialists Convention/@DSA_Housing tenant movement panel, alongside representatives of @LATenantsUnion, @TriangleTenants, Greater Austin Tenant Organizing (GATO), @SoundTenants, and @nycDSA’s Tenant Organizing Working Group.
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RT @katewillett: The first ever yimby group was started by a tech billionaire’s donation. Long before the book came out, yimby orgs like Op….
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RT @ddayen: "The reform did not trigger a construction boom or an immediate increase in the housing supply. Instead, the observed price red….
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RT @TenantsTogether: Landlords are threatening to call ICE to silence and evict tenants. CA protects renters from this kind of harassment,….
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RT @TenantsTogether: A Latino family sued their landlord for illegal eviction. Then the landlord’s lawyer suggested ICE might “pick them up….
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RT @boltsmag: The Tenants United movement in Bozeman, Montana has pushed policy to restrict second-home vacation rentals, do less policing….
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Advocates in Bozeman, Montana, are using a once-in-a-decade chance to reshape their local government structure to create more equitable representation and, eventually, more affordable housing policy.
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RT @BluebirdRave: Saikat Chakrabarti declares he's running as a moderate candidate, to the surprise of absolutely no one here in San Franci….
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