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The Politics and Practice of Tenant Organizing

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Tenant Unions and Tenant Organizations in the United States

Renee: Most of you are organizing in big American cities, or maybe all of you on this call, California and New York. It does seem like tenant organizing and tenant unions are most common in places that are denser where there's a larger cross-section of the working class renting rather than home owning. How does it differ very from place to place in terms of the nature of who the tenants are, what protections are an offer? And then just what does, what do all of those factors and the geographic variation at play, what does that all mean for the viability and role of tenant organizing as a sort of national project for the American left?

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