Organizing for Housing Justice

Catalog description

NYC tenants have built incredible power over the last few years and won unprecedented victories like right to counsel and rent strikes, and helped to win statewide victories around rent regulations and an eviction moratorium. But in the wake of COVID 19, these wins are being rolled back and evictions are resuming. How are tenants fighting back? What does it mean to stay and control the resources needed in local communities? What are the promises and limits of a vision of "community control"? What are the common contradictions and problems--cultural and ideological, economic and fiscal, and legal--that activists face in practice, and how do they meet these challenges?