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The Politics and Practice of Tenant Organizing

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The Value of Organizing Tenants

I think when people question the quote unquote strategic viability of organizing tenants, it's as though it weren't something that is quite literally happening already. It does though speak to structural difficulties or differences right between organizing labor and organizing tenants in their respective sites of struggle. There is no Wagner Act for organizing tenants, although there have been efforts and some legislation passed to enable tenant organizing to happen. For us organizing tenants on the ground level is what is at precisely the thing that shifts the conditions of the working class writ large in again, they're at the side of struggle for work.

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