"Affordable housing" is not only a scam (affordable according to who? affordable for who?) but its also used as a cudgel against working class tenants to sweep them to the far perimeter of society. Housing doesn't have to be defined by the market! housing.dsausa.org/socialhousing/

Join the HJC, apply for the Emergency Tenant Organizing Committee, start a housing justice reading group in your chapter, and organize tenants into robust unions, starting with yourself! housing.dsausa.org

Our locals distributed masks in their tenants associations and neighborhoods today. The Eastside Local La Union de Vecinos, Local Este de SILA in Boyle Heights alone distributed more than 3000 masks. SOLO EL PUEBLO SALVA AL PUEBLO - only the people can save the people

In the midst of all this destruction, eviction courts are still churning. The 6th floor of the downtown courthouse is packed today. Thousands and thousands more people will lose their jobs from these fires. WE DEMAND AN EMERGENCY EVICTION MORATORIUM AND A RENT FREEZE.

Many LATU members - gardeners, housecleaners, and other domestic workers who regularly commute from central LA to Topanga, Calabasas, and the Palisades - have already lost income because of the fires. STOP THE EVICTIONS FREEZE THE RENTS SEIZE VACANT UNITS

Landlords are raising rental listing prices by more than 50% to profit from the fires. Penal Code 396 prohibits price-gouging during a state of emergency. chelsea has started a doc of the listings: bit.ly/price-gouging-… Contributions welcome!

Politicians failed to the meet the moment during Covid and communities are still reeling from its disastrous consequences. Now, thousands more are houseless and major issues are just emerging.. An eviction moratorium and rent freeze is the FLOOR

In poor and working-class neighborhoods, tenants will be hit with harassment, frivolous 3-day notices, and baseless evictions. THEN the landlords will price-gouge, and the former tenants will become homeless. EVICTION MORATORIUM NOW

The "Pasadena Housing Providers" (🤢) are trying to use the fires to get around the tenant protection laws that Pasadena Tenants Union passed in 2022!

STOP THE EVICTIONS, FREEZE THE RENT, SEIZE VACANT APARTMENTS TO HOUSE ALL ANGELENOS! Lindsey P. Horvath and Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors, there are already nearly *150 evictions each day* in LA County. Disasters like the fires can DOUBLE the number of evictions! We need ACTION!

Yes, TENANTS as in "anyone who doesn't control their housing," as in "propertyless people of the world." FUCK ICE

These demands from L.A. Tenants Union are the most politically advanced set of demands coming from LA movements emerging from the protests yet. Every community organization in LA should be discussing these demands with their base ASAP (follow more on their IG @latenants)

Now is the time for organizations and united coalitions. Solo el pueblo salva al pueblo. Resist fascist terror or get out of the way. The Democrats have abandoned us. But our neighborhoods are the sites of popular power. Read our full statement and analysis here.

Our demands: 1. ICE out of LA 2. Drop all charges against protestors. 3. Free everyone kidnapped by ICE. 4. Immediate relief for working class Angelenos. 5. A budget for the people, not the wealthy. Defund LAPD, cancel the World Cup and the Olympics.

BTU Chair Avery Arbaugh speaking at the DSA Convention/@DSA_Housing tenant movement panel, alongside representatives of L.A. Tenants Union, Triangle Tenant Union, Greater Austin Tenant Organizing (GATO), @SoundTenants, and NYC-DSA 🌹’s Tenant Organizing Working Group.