Tracy Rosenthal, Leonardo Vilchis

Abolish Rent (eBook, ePUB)

How Tenants Can End the Housing Crisis

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Abolish Rent takes aim at one of the foremost engines of inequality and injustice.

Rent drives millions to debt, despair, and onto the streets. The social cost of rent is too damn high. Written for anyone fed up with the permanent housing crisis, complicit politicians, and real estate greed, Abolish Rent dissects our housing system from the perspective of those it immiserates. Through brisk, un-equivocating analysis and striking stories of resistance, it shows us how tenants can, through organizing and collective action, finally re-balance the scales.

From two co-founders of the largest tenants union in the country, this deeply reported account of the resurgent tenant movement centers poor and working-class people who are fighting back, staying put, and remaking the city in the process. Authors Tracy Rosenthal and Leonardo Vilchis take us to trilingual strategy meetings, raucous marches against gentrification, and daring eviction defenses where immigrants put their lives on the line. These are the seeds of the revolutionary movement we need to make our housing, our cities, and the world our home.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Haymarket Books
• Seitenzahl: 224
• Erscheinungstermin: 24. September 2024
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9798888902752
• Artikelnr.: 70528947

Autorenporträt

Tracy Rosenthal is a co-founder of the L.A. Tenants Union whose writing has beenpublished in The New Republic, The Nation, LA Times, and other outlets. Rosenthalis now on rent strike in New York City.
Leonardo Vilchis has been organizing tenants in Boyle Heights for more than thirtyyears. Trained in liberation theology, he co-founded Union de Vecinos in 1996 andthe L.A. Tenants Union in 2015. He lives in Los Angeles.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction
Chapter 1: Rent is the Crisis
Chapter 2: The Return of the Rent Strike
Chapter 3: La Lucha Educa 
Chapter 4: From Housing Struggle to Land Struggle