BREAKING: In solidarity with Columbia, hundreds of Yale students have just constructed an encampment of tents outside a Board of Trustees meeting. Organizers say they won’t leave until Yale divests from all military weapons manufacturing. FREE PALESTINE!

Starbucks workers across the country are on an Unfair Labor Practices strike, fighting for a fair contract. While workers are on strike, I won’t be buying any Starbucks, and I’m asking you to join us. Together, we can send a powerful message: No contract, no coffee.

This is urgently-needed research by Jacob and Ruthy. Please give it a read, especially if you're interested on the intersection of housing and the climate! // Financial Distress in the Multifamily Rental Market, and What It Means for Tenants

@ZohranKMamdani @thomasbirm @simplylovia @NicholsUprising @KatrinaNation .@thomasbirm's startling feature with @typeinvestigate on the Israeli company behind many buildings: https://t.co/vj9rTLDotj

One reason that the left is preoccupied with the atrocities in Palestine is that, if you dig, you find that they are connected to injustice in basically every other domain of American life you care to name. Say what you will about the "omnicause."

One of America’s largest landlords is owned by a multinational conglomerate operating in illegal Israeli settlements in the West Bank. The Israeli company, Electra, touted their American real estate subsidiary as a “big winning card.” 1/

@thomasbirm reports in partnership with @thenation: https://t.co/gSDvXGOdy4 /5

And all the while, American Landmark's Charlotte tenants' rent money is being funneled, in part, into a company linked to the displacement and genocide of Palestinians 6,000 miles away. Read the full story here: https://t.co/bzArRbpHOz

Diron Kelly, a 49-year-old truck driver, was one such tenant evicted from Conrad in 2024 after American Landmark saddled him with a $400 rent hike. He spent the following months homeless, showering at rest stops, sleeping in his truck. "It's been a nightmare," he told me. (9/10)

In the first half of 2025, the six AL complexes in Charlotte for which we could obtain eviction data had an average filing rate of 51 percent—7 times the national average. These filings targeted about 450 different people with eviction in just one city in just six months.(8/10)

@evictionlab at Princeton produces a national average eviction filing rate—in 2024, it was roughly 7%. The highest rate for any of the areas the group tracked was 24%. That year, the filing rate at Conrad at Concord Mills was 68 percent, more than nine times the average. (7/10)

This displacement, per Lubeck, is immense: Based on AL’s “modeling,” only “55 percent of existing residents [are expected to] stay,” while the other 45 percent “move out.” Court records show the eviction filing rate at Conrad has now more than quadrupled since AL took over(6/10)

Lubeck confirmed to me that rent increases are part of the company’s strategy. “When we take over a property, the first analysis we do is: How much is the rent going to go up? We typically raise the rent anywhere from $100 to $400, so some people are absolutely displaced."(5/10)

At the Conrad at Concord Mills complex, for example, tenants said that after American Landmark bought the property in 2022, they were hit with rent hikes up to $400/mo. “Before they came, rent was manageable. When they took over, it became out of reach,” one tenant said. (4/10)

Of the 34,000 units American Landmark owns across the South, the company boasts some 2,400 in Charlotte, roughly one in every 85 units in the city. I spoke with over two dozen tenants in Charlotte American Landmark had filed an eviction against. Their stories were telling.(3/10)

In a 2022 post in Forbes, American Landmark CEO Joseph Lubeck highlighted four of the South’s “hottest markets” where annual rent increases had reached anywhere from 15 to 24 percent and would be “likely to support continued rent growth.” Charlotte was first on his list. (2/10)

Yesterday, @thenation ran my unprecedented investigation revealing a major U.S. landlord's links to West Bank settlements and the IDF. To see how American Landmark's U.S. tenants are being victimized, let's look at AL's properties in Charlotte, NC.(1/10) https://t.co/bzArRbpHOz

“One of Israel’s biggest companies is taking over huge swaths of US real estate—and tenants are paying the price.” Absolutely insane story by @thomasbirm — an investigation that took over a year to report. Glad it’s finally out. https://t.co/H0bm8hEIdy

Remember how centrists were unhappy with progressives for being "one-issue voters"? Because they see no overlap between the American home ownership crisis and the Israeli military. They should read this investigative journalism by @thomasbirm https://t.co/WJUZILrilk

The way the unionized Pittsburgh Post Gazette workers held out for THREE years until they got what they deserved is exactly what organized resistance should be.

American Landmark owns roughly 34,000 housing units across the US. Rent increases and tenant displacement are key to its business model. Its parent company is one of Israel's biggest employers, and has touted its ties to the IDF even during the genocide. https://t.co/y0bxA6lfNn