https://chieforganizer.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/12/CN12042019.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: Apple PodcastsNew Orleans The Wall Street Journal and its reporters must get a special thrill when they can score an exclusive on the New York Times on New York’s own turf. I bet they didn’t even care when they went out to celebrate last week at their …
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Tenant Breakthrough in New York State on Rent Control
New Orleans For tenant activists and organizers around the country and the world, rent control, real rent control, often seems like gold at the end of the rainbow, almost a mirage, certainly unattainable, and perhaps not worth the struggle. New York City has long been a beacon for tenants trying to win such protections, …
Tenants Are Front and Center in Presidential Race
Milwaukee A funny thing happened on the way to the 2020 presidential primaries in the long shadow of the Great Recession of 2007: Democrats are finally discovering the tenants living right under their noses, and the fact that the American dream is no longer home ownership, it’s affordable housing. One candidate after another, elbowing to …