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Abolish Rent - How Tenants Can End the Housing Crisis

Englisch · Taschenbuch

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Beschreibung

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Abolish Rent takes aim at one of the foremost engines of inequality and injustice.



Rent drives millions into debt, despair, and onto the streets. The social cost of rent is too damn high. Written for anyone fed up with the permanent housing crisis, complicit politicians, and real estate greed, Abolish Rent dissects our housing system from the perspective of those it immiserates. Through unsparing analysis and striking stories of resistance, it shows us how tenants can, through organizing and collective action, harness our power and win the housing we deserve.

From two co-founders of the largest tenants union in the country, this deeply reported account of the resurgent tenant movement centers poor and working-class people who are fighting back, staying put, and remaking the city in the process. Authors Tracy Rosenthal and Leonardo Vilchis take us to trilingual strategy meetings, raucous marches against gentrification, and daring eviction defenses where immigrants put their lives on the line. These are the seeds of the revolutionary movement we need to make our housing, our cities, and the world our home.


Inhaltsverzeichnis










Introduction

Chapter 1: Rent is the Crisis

Chapter 2: The Return of the Rent Strike

Chapter 3: La Lucha Educa 

Chapter 4: From Housing Struggle to Land Struggle


Über den Autor / die Autorin










Tracy Rosenthal is a co-founder of the L.A. Tenants Union whose writing has beenpublished in The New Republic, The Nation, LA Times, and other outlets. Rosenthalis now on rent strike in New York City.

Leonardo Vilchis has been organizing tenants in Boyle Heights for more than thirtyyears. Trained in liberation theology, he co-founded Union de Vecinos in 1996 andthe L.A. Tenants Union in 2015. He lives in Los Angeles.


Zusammenfassung

Abolish Rent takes aim at one of the foremost engines of inequality and injustice.

Rent drives millions into debt, despair, and onto the streets. The social cost of rent is too damn high. Written for anyone fed up with the permanent housing crisis, complicit politicians, and real estate greed,
Abolish Rent dissects our housing system from the perspective of those it immiserates. Through unsparing analysis and striking stories of resistance, it shows us how tenants can, through organizing and collective action, harness our power and win the housing we deserve.

From two co-founders of the largest tenants union in the country, this deeply reported account of the resurgent tenant movement centers poor and working-class people who are fighting back, staying put, and remaking the city in the process. Authors Tracy Rosenthal and Leonardo Vilchis take us to trilingual strategy meetings, raucous marches against gentrification, and daring eviction defenses where immigrants put their lives on the line. These are the seeds of the revolutionary movement we need to make our housing, our cities, and the world our home.

Vorwort

Print and e-ARC distribution to trade and consumer media, both traditional and online, via Edelweiss, and other distribution platforms.

Targeted outreach to housing and activist organizations and book clubs.

Interviews in lefty magazines like The Nation, Jacobin, Dissent, The New Republic, Teen Vogue

Virtual and in-person events with contributors and local activists

Radio and podcast interviews

Academic, library, and digital marketing campaigns

Outreach to indie booksellers

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