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How tenant unions are finding power in numbers to fight L.A.’s housing crisis
Today in the L.A. Times by LATU and
@UniondVecinos
organizers Annie Powers & Leonardo Vilchis-Zarate
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LA City Council is about to vote to make it illegal to be homeless in 20% of the city. They’ve cleared the chambers of the mass of dissenters and this is how they plan to pass the law:
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CANCEL. RENT. SO. WE. CAN. PROTECT. OURSELVES. AND. OUR. NEIGHBORS.
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congratulations to all landlords just now discovering that their income depends on somebody, somewhere, having to work
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LA only has 15 city council members.
3 have been indicted for accepting bribes from developers.
3 others have now shown us their racist views while redistricting the city to be explicitly anti-tenant.
There's a war against working class tenants and its being championed by them
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We are heartbroken and outraged by the news of a tenant in Hollywood who tragically took their own life in the face of losing their home when 2 sheriff officers, a building manager, and a locksmith showed up at their door to forcibly evict them.
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Good morning! Landlords don’t provide housing, they extract rent from housing.
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Out of every six arrests, LAPD arrests one unhoused person. Out of every three reported use of force incidents, LAPD brutalizes one unhoused person. Re-tasking the LAPD budget *is* the solution to the homelessness crisis.
This weekend’s record breaking heat reminds us of the need, and our resolve, to find shelter for this City’s unhoused.
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Imagine thinking capitalists will just build so much housing that homes become affordable for everyone. Couldn’t be us.
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watch this brief and stunning film about the South LA families evicted to make way for USC students
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California accounts for 30% of the nation’s homeless and 50% of its unsheltered people.
It's in this context that LA City Council has decided to end the COVID eviction moratorium.
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If a landlord wants to kick you out, the cops arrive in minutes to enforce it—legal or not. If your roof caves in or your pipes burst, breaking habitability law, you wait for days for housing inspectors to issue a complaint. Cops have never been law enforcement.
#DefundLAPD
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More than 5,000 Latinos were pushed out of Echo Park from 2000 to 2014. A few days ago, Costa Alegre's Sunset Blvd sign was painted white. Gentrification is the erasure of food, culture, and of people from places they once called home.
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CITY COUNCIL VOTED YES TO AUTHORIZE THE PURCHASE OF HILLSIDE VILLA.
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This is not rental assistance. It’s landlord assistance. Tenants have to enter a lottery for funds they immediately turn over so that landlords won’t miss out on passive profit. Want to help renters? Cancel rent.
The COVID-19 pandemic has left many Angelenos struggling to pay their rent. We must do everything we can to help, and that's why the City is putting $100 million into rental assistance for those who need it most.
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Last night, an enemy of our housing justice movement set fire to the ACCE office in San Diego & burned ACCE tee-shirts on the lawn. This is political terror meant to intimidate us, but it shows us just how fearful & repressive our enemies are. Share this.
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Ladies, if he:
- owns an apartment
- rents a 1 bedroom unit for 3k / mo
- "rehabs" multi-family units
- talks in circles about "fair-market value"
He's not your man, he's a landlord who probably just evicted low-income tenants in order to speculate on a housing crisis.
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Nothing like a Mariachi picket line holding down the eviction blockade:
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CANCEL
THE FUCKING
RENT
This is what our people need and we will settle for nothing less. We will not negotiate our own evictions with politicians based on some idea of what is "practical."
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HAPPENING NOW — the tenants movement in LA has shut down the major Stanley Mosk Courthouse downtown. All entrances blocked.
LA and California need to
#CancelRent
and ensure there are
#NoEvictions
, period.
We will not stop fighting, with
@CalOrganize
@SAJE_ShiftPower
and more.
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This is great. Landlords think they are owed a perfect, risk-free investment. Nope.
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The tenant who died today was not a suspect. Living in their home was not a crime. The crisis forced them into a position where they felt they needed to choose to take their own life as opposed to living a life without shelter.
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54% of LA’s unhoused population is black. 1 in 6 LAPD arrests is of a houseless person. 3 unhoused people die on our streets everyday. Black unhoused lives matter.
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All LA City Council knows is accept bribes, approve gentrifying development, fund police, and lie
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Last *week* our all volunteer, dues-funded union prevented two illegal lock-outs, held bi-lingual meetings for our fourteen chapters made of thousands of members who can’t pay rent, brought a slumlord to negotiations with a rent strike, distributed 100K in survival funds...
There is no good reason people who support adding housing supply and the LA Tenants Union should be opposed on most housing issues, but the LA Tenants Union seems to spend a lot of time online making sure it's the case anyway.
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LA eviction courts are set to reopen August 14th, unless the courts step up and stop it. Will you be there with us to SHUT IT DOWN?
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BREAKING: Tenants from Hillside Villa have disrupted a Karen Bass event on homelessness at the LA Public Library.
Tenants are demanding the city buy their homes with eminent domain to keep them permanently affordable.
Stop the evictions at Hillside Villa!
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Landlords explaining why you need to work so they can live off your wages
Some landlords in Oakland have gone without rental income for more than three years after the city approved an eviction moratorium in March 2020. Now, some small-property landlords say they are going into debt while tenants with jobs skipped out on rent.
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The UC is the largest landlord in California, controlling nearly 150,000 beds in university housing. UC also manages $5 billion dollars in real estate investments, including properties owned directly and rented out for profit in UC communities.
When UC Labor Relations Director told
@KQED
that the cost of housing is outside UC's control, she was either mistaken or being deliberately misleading.
As the state's largest landlord, UC can do better. Read this analysis from a
@UCBerkeley
economist.
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Langston Hughes, “Ballad of the Landlord,” 1940
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What is gentrification if not colonialism persevering?
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The blame for this loss of life lies with the state who has made it illegal to live on the street; who refuses to provide protections for tenants in danger of losing their housing; and who contract out their armed forces to landlords criminalizing tenants who can’t pay rents
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Today marks the 11th time that rent is due in a deadly pandemic. For so many tenants, it’s the 11th month that they can’t or won’t pay. At our LATU Annual Assembly, our members shared what a year on rent strike has meant. You’re going to want to read this.
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On Tuesday, a landlord attempted to lock long-term LATU member JJ out of his home. The cops tried to enforce this *illegal* eviction. But JJ was not alone. With rapid response solidarity, our members helped him save his housing. Tenant power is real.
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Sheriffs spent 6 hours preparing for a standoff, making no attempt to contact the tenant. Sheriffs referred to the tenant as a “suspect”, mobilized a multi-million dollar militarized presence into the neighborhood, evacuated neighbors & created a stage to criminalize the victim.
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California tenants today have a "warrant of habitability" because a disabled Black mom went on rent strike in 1970. A 🧵 for Black History Month. (1/6)
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Every hour an LAPD helicopter spends in the air could be a month’s rent for an unhoused Angeleno.
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Starting tomorrow, 365,000 LA renters will have five days to apply to enter a lottery for money to hand over to their landlords. The fund will give a max of $2K though tenant debt has been accumulating for four months. And there’s only enough money for 40,000 households.
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For the tenants of Los Angeles we have the following message: The right to housing is universal. Nobody should be pushed out of their home and into the street. Thousands of families are in danger of eviction, every day across the city.
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The Mitch O’Farrell
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If you cancel rent people would actually be able to stay home
Due to the rise in
#COVID19
cases, CA is issuing a limited Stay at Home Order.
Non-essential work and gatherings must stop from 10pm-5am in counties in the purple tier.
This will take effect at 10pm on Saturday and remain for 1 month.
Together--we can flatten the curve again.
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Today is a great day to remember that L.A. promised 15,000 hotel rooms to our unhoused neighbors, received a windfall of federal cash to pay for even more rooms, and has delivered a total of 2,000 rooms instead. 60,000 people sleep outside every night.
Project Roomkey status as of March 22
LOS ANGELES COUNTY
48,038----Unsheltered people
15,000----Rooms promised
2,261-----Rooms under contract
2,261-----Rooms operational
1,724-----Rooms occupied
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Disgusting tweet from the governor of the richest state in the country who has opposed expanding rent control (twice), oversaw the largest increase in evictions in the state in years and has done nothing to expand public housing. Homelessness is a problem you have accelerated.
On homelessness,
@ElonMusk
has touched on a key issue.
California has made record investments — $15.3 bil.
But federal courts block local efforts to clear street encampments — even when housing and services are offered.
Courts must also be held accountable. Enough is enough.
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Now is the time more than ever to get involved in local organizing. At the end of the day, we protect each other.
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There are over 4,000 evictions per month in LA County right now. With unaffordable rents where do you think evicted tenants will go?
This is a housing crisis. Housing is a necessity that should be guaranteed to all.
Link:
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A hilarious political arc of a city councilmember that tried to run for what he thought would be an easy seat only to discover that he's incredibly unlikeable and got rocked by
@kennethmejiaLA
"Lastly, to the disruptors and protesters...in their own words, I yield the rest of my time and fuck you."
-Paul Koretz
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Can you pay rent on April 1st? What about May? How will you pay for food, medications, necessities? What about your neighbors, your family, your friends? How long will this crisis last? LA, choose food. Choose medications. Choose your future. Keep your rent.
#FoodNotRent
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How are we supposed to follow the mandated stay at home order you implemented
@GavinNewsom
when you still force us to fight for our homes in eviction courts with hundreds of people every day?
Here for you, safe for you,
@LASuperiorCourt
? This is what it looked like at 9 am on an average day at the Pasadena courthouse. The
@LATenantsUnion
organizer there with us told me that Stanley Mosk is dramatically worse.
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PSA: You don’t need a ballot measure to organize your building. You don’t need a ballot measure to organize a rent strike. Join your local tenants union, California. We can roll-back and control rents one collective bargaining negotiation at a time.
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Repeat after us: landlords don’t provide housing, they extract rent from housing.
Opinion: 'Landlord' feudal, outdated term that help paint housing providers as villians
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We must come together and organize as tenants in our buildings and as members of our neighborhoods. We must protect each other and organize to build the power to defend our homes together.
We Will Protect Each Other, We Will Defend Our Homes Together!!
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Last night, the LA Sheriff's Dept. coordinated a sweep of homeless residents, so they could have a no-masked private party at a bar. These are the people deputized with carrying out hundreds of thousands of pandemic evictions. Cancel rent & defund this disgusting department.
BREAKING: Masks Off in Hollywood.
As CA becomes the first state to surpass half a million COVID cases,
@LASDHQ
threw a raucous, mask-optional party at Sassafras Saloon last night despite a statewide order to close bars.
Only on
@KNOCKdotLA
:
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Because of our pressure, today the Housing Committee did NOT pass the end of the COVID protections onto the full council.
This is a small but crucial win. Now we have to take it further and force these politicians to keep the protections as long as necessary.
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Frederick Engels, 1872
Imagine thinking capitalists will just build so much housing that homes become affordable for everyone. Couldn’t be us.
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Everyone here was here to say: Black Unhoused Lives Matter.
Proud to join
@TheoHen95302259
@StreetWatchLA
@DSA_LosAngeles
@LACANetwork
to hold space with and defend our neighbors who call the park and LA’s public spaces home.
A large group of protesters has gathered in Echo Park, as the third weekend of demonstrations continue following the death of George Floyd.
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CALIFORNIA STILL HAS COVID EVICTION PROTECTIONS UNTIL AT LEAST SEPTEMBER 30.
It’s extremely fucked up that Congress is letting the national protections expire. But if you’re in California, this doesn’t actually affect you so much.
Spread the word. Fight back. Join us.
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Cancel rent means CANCEL RENT. Why we fight for cancellation not “assistance” or “relief:”
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Here’s Wayne Abb, a landlord lawyer, crying to the Sheriff because he can’t get into court and evict tenants today.
#CancelRent
#EvictionFreeLA
#ShutItDown
HAPPENING NOW — the tenants movement in LA has shut down the major Stanley Mosk Courthouse downtown. All entrances blocked.
LA and California need to
#CancelRent
and ensure there are
#NoEvictions
, period.
We will not stop fighting, with
@CalOrganize
@SAJE_ShiftPower
and more.
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Has anyone seen our tiny violin?
Tragic news for landlords. California Judicial Council stops the filing of almost all eviction cases. This will open the floodgates for tenants not to pay rent. Watch my webinar at 10 AM today at:
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COPS ARE PUTTING ON RIOT GEAR AND POSSIBLY HAVE TEAR-GAS.
THIS IS AN ILLEGAL LOCKOUT, WE NEED BACKUP
10421 LANGDON AVE
EVICTION BLOCKADE HAPPENING NOW
🚨SUPPORT NEEDED🚨
10421 LANGDON AVE
MISSION HILLS
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LA could end homelessness within a year if a fraction of LAPD’s $3 billion budget was used instead to rent vacant units for people who needed housing.
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Homelessness has increased 9%. 278,000 households are behind on rent. 40,000 evictions have been filed since February.
Why is Los Angeles planning to raise the rent?
Join us on Monday morning at 8am at 1057 S. Western to march to demand NO RENT INCREASES!
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Not only should we demand all of their resignations and a full-scale investigation.
We should demand a redistricting that accurately reflects our city which is majority POC and Indigenous. And majority renters who are in constant threat of being dispossessed of their homes.
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If this landlord can come down $600 a month, so can yours. Step one is to ask. No luck? Step two is to escalate. Join your local chapter, we’ll help you form a tenants association and start today.
my landlords just decreased our rent by $600 for the next 6 months because we asked 😳
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The Hillside Villa tenants will soon be fighting potentially 30+ evictions in court -- while continuing to demand the city expropriate their building to keep it permanently affordable.
Please donate to their eviction defense fund if you can:
these tenants just set their eviction notices on fire ‼️❤️🔥
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Housing for one week,
@MitchOFarrell
?
"She ended up in a hotel room in Century City, expecting to stay for months. But now ... the hotel is reopening, and homeless people, there under the government-funded program Project Roomkey, must leave."
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Getting in a politician's face is not terrorism.
What City Council does every day to unhoused people is terrorism.
Angelenos have every right to peacefully protest, but when protest devolves into wielding physical intimidation, threats and acts of violence, it’s no longer protest—it’s terrorism.
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These tenants are members of LATU in our North Hollywood chapter. Please leave comments for
@hgtv
on twitter & ig asking them to force
@tarekelmoussa
to drop the project!
I can think of nothing more American than getting evicted to juice ratings for your landlord’s TV show airing on the network that convinced the country property speculation is good, and beige is the only permissible color in a home.
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Us again:
You
really
really
really
really
really
really
really
really
really
really
really
really
really
really
really
need to cancel rent, pay us to quarantine, and give up the cute tweets.
Me again:
You
really
really
really
really
really
really
really
really
really
really
really
really
really
really
really
need to wear a mask.
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BREAKING: Hillside Villa tenants announced today that the city is moving forward on their demand to use *eminent domain* to take the building from Tom Botz and keep it permanently affordable.
A motion will be introduced today by Gil Cedillo starting the eminent domain process.
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Just another day on which mutual humanity surpasses the entire city government in LA
LA: there is a heat wave this week which will disproportionately affect your unhoused neighbors. Consider freezing some water bottles and dropping them off at your closest encampment. It cost me approx $7 and took less than 15 minutes.
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Cancel rent. Abolish landlords.
The idea that we must pay someone each month for shelter, just for existing on this earth, is bullshit.
Feudal capitalism has to go. All capitalism has to go.
If you’re in LA, join us and let’s build something better.
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It's a good day to cancel rent.
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At least 164,000 people are dead because our government refused to stop evictions. At least 164,000 people are dead because our government refused to stop evictions. AT LEAST 164,000 PEOPLE ARE DEAD BECAUSE OUR GOVERNMENT REFUSED TO STOP EVICTIONS.
!! Study finds that uniform moratoria on evictions and utility shutoffs through November of last year could have saved *164,000* lives lost to COVID-19:
If real, that would make reducing housing precarity easily the best public health measure we've got.
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.
@MayorOfLA
didn’t bother to show up to Hillside Villa tonight to listen to tenants fighting evictions.
Karen Bass says she wants to end homelessness. She doesn’t.
We need eminent domain for Hillside Villa!
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Every eviction is an ethical failure. Every eviction is a policy failure.
California mother with 6-month-old twins homeless after being evicted
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⠀ (•ㅅ•). collective tenant
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The truth?
1. Rent control doesn’t stop new development.
2. It will take more than new market-rate housing to push rents down.
3. Landlords don’t deserve your pity.
4. Prop 10 repeals an old state law to let cities decide how to help their residents now.
Lies your landlord is telling voters about rent control.
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Meet UTACH: Unhoused Tenants Against Carceral Housing! Right now, on the steps of city hall, Project Roomkey residents are issuing their short and long-term demands: end the infantilizing curfews, jail food, and staff harassment, abolish the carceral shelter system itself.
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All land struggles are connected. All housing struggles are connected. All solidarity with the Palestinian people fighting for the right to stay put and the right to return.
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😔tired: groaning about rent day coming up
🤨wired: calling your electeds to ask for a rent freeze
😌🔥inspired: joining your local tenants union and calling for a RENT SUSPENSION
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A tenant association in every building, a chapter in every neighborhood, a union in every city. A permanent rent strike, backed up by eviction defense. The (re)distribution of housing based on need not profit. The abolition of ownership into self-organization and mutual aid.
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Found the photo op of
@GavinNewsom
where he unilaterally vetoed and opposed all progressive legislation!!
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If you are so out of touch with real tenant emergency that you mistake policy for politics, the discourse for the work, if you are bent on being blind to public housing, foreclosing expropriation in advance, we will of course never agree. Fine. In any struggle, there are sides.
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Mark your calendars for August 3rd. Without rent cancellation, 365,000 tenants in Los Angeles—majority black and poc—could be served eviction notices on that day.
California's Judicial Council is considering this week an August 3 "sunset" date for its de facto eviction/foreclosure judgement moratorium:
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TWF two LATU tenants associations realize they have the same landlord, so they hold a meeting to strategize how to stop his harassment and stay put!!
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We're outside of
@MayorOfLA
's home demanding that he do his job. Because of his inaction, an unprecedented number of Angelenos will be faced with eviction in the coming months.
We're in the middle of a pandemic, and at the start of a deep economic depression. 1/3
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Berlin has the right idea.
There will be a vote to “expropriate 240,000 properties from Germany’s biggest publicly listed residential landlords.”
Expropriation is good! Get these hundreds of thousands of homes back into public hands.
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BREAKING: dozens of tenants at the Hillside Villa apartments have received eviction notices from landlord Tom Botz this weekend.
5 families are already currently fighting eviction in court. About 40 more are still on rent strike and will be there soon.
@hillside_villa
@ccedLA
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L.A. city council voted unanimously to elect a landlord as president. CM Krekorian is responsible for blocking funding for the Tenant Anti-Harassment Ordinance and for lifting tenant protections. Three districts had no representation & a councilmember was absent
#illegitimate
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