State Sen. Paul Bettencourt emphasizes that Senate Bill 38, passed by the upper chamber on Thursday, is necessary to make it easier for courts to remove squatters. But Democrats and tenants’ advocates say it would undermine due process.

https://www.houstonpublicmedia.org/articles/housing/2025/04/10/518484/houston-lawmakers-bill-aimed-at-speeding-eviction-process-passes-texas-senate/

Via StayHousedLA: If you are unable to pay your rent in April, you must notify your landlord by April 7th. 

You can get a letter to give landlord, as well as sign up for tenants rights workshops in the link below

https://www.stayhousedla.org/workshops

I’m going to call them on Monday because I’m real upset about this I don’t understand why they removed the tenant rights pamphlet from this page.

And they also had one for landlords, I enjoyed reading that one so I could see what tips and tricks they could use against you.

But all the tenants rights information is gone from this page and there’s no reason to take it down and I’m mad about it.

https://www.nhla.org/resources/pamphlets

Campaigners fight for fair service charges! Regulation is demanded alongside reforms like management fee caps and tax relief for landlords. Join the push for change: https://england.landlordsguild.com/article/petitioners-push-for-service-charge-regulation/ #HousingCrisis #TenantsRights

[1/x] trade unions, labor movement
parent: https://mastodon.social/@persagen/111014522809159266

#TradeUnions #LaborUnions #TradeAssociations #unions #LaborMovement
# WorkersRights #solidarity #RightToStrike
#UAW #CAW
Canada #CUPE #CUPW #TenantsRights
#poverty #precarity #inflation #affordability
#capitalism #corporations #greedflation #libertarianism #UnionBusting #RightToWork
#billionaires #oligarchy #meritocracy #plutocracy #WealthTax
#fascism #Christofascism #antiLGBT #Trump2 #Project2025 #RepublicanParty #Poilievre

I wrote this article about a rent strike that started in two Kansas City apartment complexes, and organizers are working to spread this campaign to buildings across multiple US states.

The purpose is not just to fix things at the building level; this ambitious campaign is strategically targeting buildings strikes in a way that aims to force the the hand of a federal regulator, the FHFA, to lock in tenant protections.

https://shelterforce.org/2024/10/04/could-this-rolling-rent-strike-make-the-feds-protect-tenants/

Q: Should tenants take part of "Residents Associations," or should those only include owner/occupiers and landlords?

A: Yes, they should! They RESIDE in the area, don't they? Furthermore, many tenants take more interest in their neighbourhood and are more proactive than owners.

We live nearly a decade in the same place, go to public community meetings, we care about improving our area but cannot be members?

[thread] tenants' rights | rent strikes
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rent_strike

* method of protest commonly employed against large landlords

Tenants’ Unions Across U.S. Now Have National Federation
https://jacobin.com/2024/08/national-tenants-union-landlords-harris

* new national organization to fight power of multistate real-estate capital
* Tenant Union Federation
* 1st major national effort at tenant organizing in 40 years

Did you know that in New York State, tenants can now sue their landlords in summary proceedings even without an attorney, if landlords refuse to maintain properties in compliance with the warranty of habitability?

I wrote this piece for Shelterforce and interviewed some local tenants who successfully sued their landlord using this new law, although they did have pro bono legal representation from #Cornell's Tenants Rights practicum.

#Housing #TenantsRights

https://shelterforce.org/2024/08/07/they-had-no-heat-for-four-months-a-new-law-let-them-sue/

#Ithaca will likely pass the Good Cause Eviction tenant protection on July 10.

I made a video and did a little write-up here.

#Housing #HousingPolicy #TenantsRights

https://striking-distance.com/happenings/ithaca-ny-considers-good-cause-eviction-housing-policy

JOURNALIST REQUEST:
if you've been asked for more than 2 month's rent *total* before moving into a rental unit in #NewYork State, please DM me.

It is illegal to ask for first, last, and security in New York--as it has been for four years.

So if anyone has been asked for first + last + security after 2019 in #NY State, please get in touch.

I'm putting together an investigative piece for the housing publication Shelterforce on how prevalent this practice is.

#introduction greetings, I'm Chris from #Oakland, California and have just joined from the birdsite.

By day I'm a #frontend developer who cares deeply about #a11y #ux #design #dataviz #maps and #oss.

I enjoy #cycling / #mtb and #drumming / #percussion and hanging out with my partner and #dog.

Other topics I'm found of include: #socialjustice #urbanism #tenantsrights #housing #civictech #webdev #bikepacking #twitterexodus

happy to be here