🎧New episode of the Rent Strike Series with Mathilde Lind Gustavussen and Brad Hirn from Housing Rights Committee of San Francisco, Inc. discussing recent developments in the VTA rent strike including the largest-ever sale of rent-stabilized units in San Francisco. Listen in here: urbanpolitical.online/episode-72-ren…

#Students living in #Berlin 📢 Georg-Simmel-Center for Urban Studies is looking for a student assistant 40h/month to support Urban Political with preparation of interviews, maintenance of the website, public distribution of the content etc. Deadline: End of February. Details: gsz.hu-berlin.de/de/ksbf_11_202…

We need your help! The city is trying to kill our demands for eminent domain and push some deal with the landlord that will NOT solve our problem. Please call Eunisses Hernandez right now and demand that they publicly release the deal they are finalizing with Botz: (213) 473-7001

🎧new episode of our Urban Lives of Property Serie, hosted by Hanna Hilbrandt and Markus Kip! Listen to Part III, where Jean-David Gerber Universität Bern helps us think property and new urban commons from Switzerland, Ghana and Senegal. urbanpolitical.podigee.io/74-urban_lives…

San Francisco’s groundbreaking Union at Home legislation encourages tenants to organize in their buildings the way employees organize at work. Housing activists in Berkeley are hoping their city will follow suit — but landlords are pushing back. jacobin.com/2024/04/berkel…

New piece out for Jacobin about SF’s unprecedented tenant right-to-organize legislation, the major concessions tenants have secured from landlords, and the campaign to pass similar legislation in Berkeley with Housing Rights Committee of San Francisco, Inc., UAW 4811 and 🐝 ACCE 🐝 jacobin.com/2024/04/berkel…

Great coverage of UAW 4811 members fighting alongside housing groups like Tenants Together to pass the groundbreaking Berkeley Tenant Protection and Right to Organize Act, which would provide ironclad collective bargaining rights for tenants! jacobin.com/2024/04/berkel…

BOTZ GOT BAILED OUT! WE GOT SOLD OUT! The City is offering Botz a deal worth over $15M in cash and $5M loan extensions at 0% and 1% interest. The deal also includes a provision that would ALLOW HIM TO EVICT TENANTS for RENT DEBT with 3% interest.

🎧¡una sorpresa para nuestros oyentes hispanohablantes!🎧 Hanna Hilbrandt and Markus Kip continue their "Urban Lives of Property" series with an episode in #Spanish on #ejidos with Clara Salazar. An English transcript is also available on: urbanpolitical.online/episodio-76-en…

wonderful Jacobin piece by Mathilde Lind Gustavussen on San Francisco's recently passed “tenant right to counsel” policy in eviction cases. This is a brutal statistic: jacobin.com/2024/05/san-fr…

I have a new piece out for Jacobin about San Francisco's tenant right to counsel program and it's effectiveness as a homelessness prevention tool Eviction Defense Collaborative of San Francisco jacobin.com/2024/05/san-fr…

Tenant “right to counsel” policies guarantee legal representation to tenants facing eviction. San Francisco’s policy, established by voters in 2018 and the first of its kind, is proving to be a humane and cost-effective way to address homelessness. jacobin.com/2024/05/san-fr…

eternal reminder that the evil SF NIMBY leftist blah blahs instituted one of the most cost-effective homelessness prevention programs in the US 💅🏽 it’s the “cops fix homelessness” pols & Grow/Together SF weirdos who are the rigid ideologues trying to set your tax $$ on fire 🤷🏽‍♀️

Housing should be a fundamental right, not a commodity subject to the whims of profit-driven landlords. This moral truth is also a winning electoral issue. jacobin.com/2024/08/rent-c…

We need bold measures like public housing and effective rent control programs. But Kamala Harris’s proposal reinforces the existing paradigm: more public subsidies, more tax incentives, and more empty hopes that developers will solve the housing crisis. jacobin.com/2024/08/harris…

I'm very excited to have an article in the new issue of RadicalHousingJournal @radicalhousing.bsky.social about Hillside Villa Tenants Association's historic struggle for eminent domain