Alabama is farming out incarcerated people to work at hundreds of companies, including McDonald’s & Wendy’s. They're denied parole to provide cheap labor, the state takes 40%, and they often get just $2/hr after all the deductions. This is modern day slavery.

Today with Olneyville Neighborhood Association (ONA) we delivered a letter to Santos Javier demanding he pay the deposit he owes to our community member Ms. Y

🌟People’s Housing under Public Ownership and Tenant Control 🌟 Met Council on Housing

We're seeing corporate landlords be more open to rent control than a Labour government. Rising rents as a political issue is not going away. It's time for Labour to throw out the Thatcherite playbook for good and bring in rent control that keeps people in our homes.

According to the former Chief Economist of RealPage(!), today's fed rate cut isn't enough for housing development to resume in earnest. That won't happen "until rent growth returns." The rent needs to go up, folks!

These people need to be fought and driven out

How a group of regular people at 1440-1442 Lawrence Ave W went on rent strike with their neighbours & won!😎 We can confirm that serious repairs are finally getting done inside our members’ homes. If they can do it at Lawrence & Keele then so can you!✊ cp24.com/news/how-a-gro…

RI landlords need to register apartments by Tuesday. Here's what happens if they don't. providencejournal.com/story/news/pol… via Providence Journal

“Affordability” is an abused concept in development, much more to do with what is affordable (profitable) for developers to build than with what is affordable for a working family to live.

Starting October 1st all landlords with few exceptions must have their lead certificate and be registered with the RI Rental Registry or they can not file non-payment evictions. Search here to see if your landlord has their lead certificate: health.ri.gov/find/environme…

We can neither confirm nor deny our involvement in this fiasco 😇 dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/ar…

Banning students from a *library* is diabolical.

Excited to see my book Renters Unite up on the Pluto Press website plutobooks.com/9780745350011/… Written out of the experience of being in London Renters Union and meeting others building similarly inspiring tenant unions.

That’s what happens when you wait 22 years till the last minute!

Unbelievably excited to bring you an interview with tracy rosenthal today. We're in a housing crisis, and politicians are presenting flawed or even fascist solutions. Tracy and co-author Leonardo Vilchis have a real solution: Abolish Rent. jphilll.com/p/abolish-rent

Workers at seven CVS pharmacies in Southern California have gone on strike for better pay and health care and to protest what they say is bad-faith contract bargaining by the company. trib.al/Yu1ykZL

Providence Urbanist Network With multiple labor law violations, no protections for workers despite public financing & substandard wages for workers who built it across the board! There’s got to be a better way to build housing!

BREAKING: New data from LendingTree shows there are FAR MORE vacant units than unhoused people in every major city across CA. Homelessness is not a supply issue. The major cause of homelessness is the *high cost of rent*, not a lack of available units. lendingtree.com/home/mortgage/…

"Trump proposes concentration camps for the poor" is a more accurate headline