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Yesterday we held an Escuelita on the Ellis Eviction Act, hosted by our Northeast Local members Ana, Maria, and Anselmo, who have been fighting harassment intended to displace them for years by Seth Hamilton & Streetlamp Properties LLC, and who have now received Ellis papers.

Comrades in Milwaukee are facing a defamation lawsuit by one of the city's most notorious slumlords. Read more about it below, tell others in your union about the case, and donate if you can! We want to help @MKEMATU turn this on its head. chuffed.org/project/solida…

End the LTO now!

Our comrade Keisha was supported today by organized-tenants from across Brooklyn who will not sit-by and allow their Unions members to go alone through a corrupt and violent court system.

Philadelphia courts are suspending eviction lockouts involving the landlord-tenant officer in the wake of the third eviction-related shooting since March. trib.al/NRdD5YR

Dozens of Philly judges double as landlords but several didn’t follow the same laws their courts are charged with upholding, an Inquirer analysis found. via Juliana Feliciano Reyes + Ryan W Briggs inquirer.com/news/philadelp…

The Venezuelan government has made the construction of social housing a top priority - funding the machinery, materials and labor. They bring in the national guard, the local community, and future residents to support in the construction allowing for homes to be built rapidly

A delegation of our members just got back from witnessing it firsthand. It's an entirely different system with radically different values that allows for a transformative project like this to happen

THREE (!) different conversations with LATU members featured in Radical Housing Journal

1: "From the politics of what’s possible to the politics of what we want" featuring organizers from La Union de Vecinos, Local Este de SILA — radicalhousingjournal.org/2023/from-the-…

2: "Here to Stay: Building a Tenant Association Against Displacement" featuring members of the Flower Drive Tenants Association (South Central LA Tenants) — radicalhousingjournal.org/2023/here-to-s…

3: "Food distribution as solidarity and as a tool for building tenant power in Los Angeles" featuring Acción Comunitaria — radicalhousingjournal.org/2023/food-dist…

Our next meeting will be this Sunday, the 18th at noon on Zoom! DM for the link, and let us know if you have anything to add to the agenda, such as if you're actively organizing tenants and want to report on progress for support/troubleshooting/storytelling.

The program for our virtual convention on March 2 & 3 is up at atun-rsia.org/2024convention! Featuring presentations from Stomp Out Slumlords, L.A. Tenants Union, CHTU #AbolishRent, Eugene Housing and Neighborhood Defense, @BrooklynDefense, Cargill Tenants Union, and Tucson Tenants Union Register at bit.ly/atun2024

"As a union member, I know how the union shit goes — it’s slow — and I didn’t really think a tenant union was going to get things moving like it did. But as soon as I started talking to my neighbors, I realized the problem was way bigger than I thought."

$700,000 of rent debt forgiven, affordability extended for 10 years, zero evictions - Hillside Villa has finally ended its nearly FIVE YEAR LONG rent strike!!