housing
New Brooklyn tenant’s coalition stands up to abusive landlords
June 22, 2022After a tenant passed out from carbon monoxide poisoning in her basement apartment, a neighborhood coalition formed to take on dangerous living conditions and unscrupulous landlords.
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Trouble in Paradise: Key West’s runaway real estate market pushing out workers
June 16, 2022Once a city known for its progressive identity, Key West has been left vulnerable to a more reactionary tourist population by big property investors.
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‘Co-living’ ban deals blow to affordable housing in Kansas
June 1, 2022The Shawnee City Council says it is blocking big real estate investors from gobbling up homes and converting them into apartments, but tenants are the ones suffering so far.
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Kansas City renters establish citywide tenants’ union
May 26, 2022Resisting gentrification has made them comrades.
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Detroit tenants organize to take on big landlords and property management companies
May 12, 2022Organizing efforts have brought them face-to-face with big landlords and property management companies who have attacked them every step of the way.
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