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Tenants union. A tenants union, also known as a tenants association, is a group of tenants that collectively organize to improve the conditions of their housing and mutually educate about their rights as renters. [1] [2] Groups may also lobby local officials to change housing policies or address homelessness.
History. KC Tenants was founded with an annual budget of $30,000, which has grown to almost $600,000 in June 2023. [1] The union has worked together with Mayor Quinton Lucas on housing policy, [3] notably passing a tenant's bill of rights in 2019 that included banning "discrimination against prospective tenants solely because of a prior arrest ...
Many arrests and evictions. The 1918-1920 New York City rent strikes were some of the most significant tenant mobilizations against landlords in New York City history. [2] Prior to the strikes, a housing shortage caused by World War I exacerbated tenant conditions, with the construction industry being redirected to war time efforts.
The International Union of Tenants ( IUT) is a non-governmental organisation representing 74 tenants' organisations in 51 countries advocating for tenants' rights and defending tenants' interests. [1] IUT's stated aims include safeguarding the interests of tenants and the promotion of affordable healthy housing throughout the world.
UCAPAWA. AFL. UFW. The Southern Tenant Farmers Union ( STFU) (1934–1960) was founded as a civil farmer's union to organize tenant farmers in the Southern United States. [1] [2] [3] Many such tenant farmer sharecroppers were Black descendants of former slaves. Originally set up in July 1934 during the Great Depression, the STFU was founded to ...
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The Crown Heights Tenant Union (CHTU) is a tenants union created in October 2013 to unify old and new tenants against the gentrification of the neighborhood of Crown Heights, Brooklyn, New York City. [1] [2] The CHTU has pushed for local collective bargaining agreements between tenants and landlords to be written into the deeds of buildings ...
Living Rent is a national tenants' union in Scotland.Originally established in 2014 as a campaign group urging the Scottish Government to implement rent controls, it subsequently became a mass membership organisation of tenants aiming to "tackle the power imbalance between landlords and tenants" through collective action.