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STRIKE UPDATE: Quality Hill Towers Tenant Union announced a pause in their 64-day rent strike, a commitment to reaching an agreement with their landlord, Sentinel Corporation. Independence Towers Tenant Union will strike in December, marking the union’s third month on strike.

22% of tenants spend 100% of their income on rent. The rent is too damn high and something's gotta give.

In Atlanta Journal-Constitution, Brian Callaci and I explain how rent control protects tenants from landlord power and helps keep inflation down ajc.com/opinion/opinio…

"Deny, deny, deny. That's how you hit your numbers." Read ProPublica's seminal series on how insurance giants like United and Cigna systematically, cruelly—and very, very profitably—deny health coverage every day, at the expense of patients' lives. propublica.org/series/uncover…

New on Tenant Union Federation by Thomas Birmingham for The Nation. Tap in to read about our first big swings and the tenants leading the way. thenation.com/?post_type=art…

Today, Shai Karp explains how landlords wield significant unaccountable power over tenants, and argues that withholding rent in response to mistreatment is one way to resist such domination. lpeproject.org/blog/landlords…

New from Ruthy and me in The American Prospect as Tenant Union Federation preps for 2025: ‼️What to expect on housing with Trump 2.0 ‼️How tenants are experimenting with unions and strikes ‼️What we could win if we approach this issue with the seriousness it deserves prospect.org/infrastructure…

Tremendous piece on the real problem (financialization) and the real solution (organized tenants fighting for both revolutionary decommodification and more immediate regulatory protections, most urgently rent caps). Read the whole thing.

Price gouging for housing in the middle of a catastrophe is abhorrent, but let's be clear: it’s just a more extreme version of what we see every day in cities across the country, where landlords exploit desperate renters for maximum profit.

Trump and goons are making an example of Mahmoud Khalil, testing their limits, warning of what's to come for any dissenters, regardless of immigration status. Democrats should stop at nothing to ensure his immediate release. No use for lengthy statements, just get him free.

Ann Coulter has a statement on Mahmoud Khalil’s unconstitutional detention before Schumer, Pelosi… Not tweeting to be an asshole, just really hope this changes soon and that we see a full throated and relentless defense of free speech and demand for his freedom

Many online appear to hold the mistaken view that the First Amendment only protects the free speech of American citizens. In fact, it does not say anything about citizenship. It places limits on the government’s ability to regulate speech, period. currentaffairs.org/news/the-most-…

We have to make this guy mayor of New York

Trump’s Economic Agenda Could Push the Housing Crisis Over the Edge “Trump does not have a housing plan, period." "Deportation is not a housing plan." "He is operating purely based on vibes, and the vibes, by the way, are bad." -- Tara Raghuveer truthout.org/articles/trump…

NEW: I’ve obtained new footage of the abduction of Tufts student Runeysa Ozturk which includes audio of her kidnappers.

Viscerally sickening. It’s not about “who they come for next” or whatever future paranoia motivates the masses, it’s about the fact that they did take Mahmoud— this case isn’t a harbinger of doom for the rest, but a world of tragedy and destruction in itself.

Amidst debates about the “abundance agenda” and affordable housing policy, the Vanderbilt Policy Accelerator is releasing two new papers charting an agenda for a post-neoliberal housing policy. 1/5

BREAKING: Mohsen Mahdawi has been released from federal custody. Judge reportedly compared the recent period of migrants and immigrants being detained to the era of McCarthyism and the infamous "Red Scare". Drop Site