I wrote about UBuffalo and other colleges and universities in NYS funding lobbying groups working to block climate action in 2019. Note these lobbying groups are now backing the astroturf "New Yorkers for Affordable Energy" ➡️news.littlesis.org/2022/04/19/fos… news.littlesis.org/2019/06/12/uni…

“That’s all anybody can do right now. Live. Hold out. Survive. I don’t know whether good times are coming back again. But I know that won’t matter if we don’t survive these times.” - Octavia E. Butler

TODAY 65 #HomesGuarantee tenant leaders held a meeting with White House officials including Erika Poethig Gene Sperling EB @VrainBK to demand executive and agency-level action to protect tenants, including conditioning federal funds on rent control, good cause, etc.

A kid on a dirt bike was murdered and another person hospitalized after a person in an SUV opened fire on them, but thankfully the News adds that the dirt bikes weren’t street legal to let us know that they deserved it

Interest rate is going up in two weeks ,rent is over the top high ,and there’s no inventory on homes …WTF-_-

LTU leader LaMonica Dickerson at the White House today w #HomesGuarantee!! Letting @Potus know - the rent is too damn high!!!

This morning 100 tenants rallied in front of the White House, seeking a meeting between tenants and President Donald J. Trump and his signature on an executive order—supported by 247 orgs—to regulate rents: ppls.ac/eol

Regardless what you been thru Regardless what you into I feel like I got to tell you You got something to contribute...

💥100 tenants just wrapped a trip to D.C. to push President Donald J. Trump to regulate the rents! People's Action's #homesguarantee campaign drafted an executive order for Biden to sign, supported by 247 tenant organizations. Watch this clip & join us: damnhighrent.com

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Tenant organizers from around the country traveled to D.C. last week with a clear message: the rent is too damn high. Organizers demanded federal tenant protections & rent regulations with People’s Action #HomesGuarantee campaign.

First MINUTE of Biden's debate remarks: "We're going to reduce the price of housing. We're going to build new units. We're going to make sure we CAP RENTS so corporate greed can't take over." POTUS calls for rent caps. Tenants did that. Now let's see it happen.

Using Supply and Demand to talk about housing like using height and weight to talk about a fight I am bigger than Mike Tyson But I'm not fighting him What good does supply do if the people who need it most cant get it and the people who got it own mortgage back securities

RENT STRIKE DAY 31. This month tenants in Kansas City launched strikes in federally-backed properties, targeting landlords AND federal regulator U.S. Federal Housing (FHFA). Rent is due again tomorrow, November 1. Tenants organizing in Michigan, North and South Carolina, Kentucky, Montana, Illinois...

STRIKE NEWS: In response to ongoing strikes in federally-financed properties, on October 29 the Federal Housing Finance Agency (FHFA) offered the Tenant Union Federation a formal engagement with Director Sandra Thompson in Washington DC.

If FHFA and Fannie Mae cannot meet these terms by COB today, the bargaining teams may vote to cancel the engagement.  Since this engagement will not include the FHFA Director, this does NOT constitute bargaining. As such, the Kansas City strikes will continue.

TUF’s statement on the current state of the strikes and FHFA’s negligence.

The federal regulator is cordially invited to sleepover at Quality Hill Towers or Independence Towers.

Tenants across four states are joining forces to take on private equity landlord Capital Realty Group. From New Haven to Detroit, Louisville, and Kansas City, hundreds of renters are organizing through Tenant Union Federation to demand collective bargaining. inthesetimes.com/article/privat…

In Bisnow: “Mr. Eichler and Capital Realty Group have the opportunity to do the right thing, which is in the interest of all involved parties: return to the bargaining table and sign an agreement with the unions. As of now, they are failing to do so." archive.ph/AYHiE#selectio…