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Today, Greg Baltz reviews tracy rosenthal and Leonardo Vilchis's *Abolish Rent,* which he argues contains important lessons for legal scholars and tenant attorneys about how best to support and represent organized tenants. lpeproject.org/blog/all-power…

I've been looking forward to this book for years, and yet it couldn't be more relevant than right now in the wake of Grants Pass and local responses.

BREAKING: At this very moment, the Israeli military is massacring family after family in North Gaza in a war of extermination. So hundreds of Jews and friends are shutting down the New York Stock Exchange to demand the US stop arming Israel and profiting from genocide.

Netanyahu is committing human rights abuses over and over again—bombing hospitals, burning Palestinians alive, blocking food aid, and killing aid workers. This evil genocide must end and President Biden has to stop enabling it. That starts with cutting off military aid.

one of the long-time projects of the political right in silicon valley has been to harness the mythos of the individual genius entrepreneur as a way to attack higher education. these attacks started in the 1990s, when conservatives felt colleges were too feminist & multicultural

The research makes clear that the consequences of a disaster are enduring & often affect renters, who are at a high risk of housing instability for years. housingmatters.urban.org/research-summa…

"we are aware that law is the reflection of a neoliberal power structure... But we also know that law is a disputed territory and a living discipline, that although it often enables oppression, it can also be used as a tool for emancipation if it has the support of civil society"

**Really valuable research here from Nicole Summers! ** Individual LLs more likely than big corporate LL to push tenants out (big LL may prefer to extract $ and exert control). Lots more findings inside on eviction courts & settlements, w/implications for right to counsel etc

Guys, I don't think letting this crew take power again is going to help Palestine

This is a Nazi rally. They’re Nazis. Good god, that should mean something.

This is a klan rally.

it would be super cool if the ADL, an institution ostensibly dedicated to fighting antisemitism, made this connection, but I understand they're currently very busy monitoring the social media posts of college students

They played the song Dixie before Rep. Byron Donalds- a Black man- took the stage to speak. Dixie is an ode the “good old days of plantation life” during slavery days. It originated at a black face minstrel show in the 1850s. It de facto became the anthem of the Confederacy😮

Birth certificate. Eyeglasses. Cell phone. Teddy bear. Sewing machine. Hep C medication. Breast pump. Bible. Urns of ashes. ProPublica spoke with people across the US about what they lost during encampment sweeps. Please spend time with this. projects.propublica.org/homeless-encam…

RENT STRIKE DAY 31. This month tenants in Kansas City launched strikes in federally-backed properties, targeting landlords AND federal regulator U.S. Federal Housing (FHFA). Rent is due again tomorrow, November 1. Tenants organizing in Michigan, North and South Carolina, Kentucky, Montana, Illinois...

A new law requires New York City marshals to post notices of eviction online, in addition to serving them in person. But early compliance has been inconsistent, which some lawyers say is a violation of tenants’ due process rights. via patrick spauster: bit.ly/3YQ1Acj

The government’s leading program for creating affordable rentals is enriching corporate landlords while making life hell for struggling tenants. I went long on the low-income housing tax credit for The New Republic. newrepublic.com/article/184005…

🧵Across the country, housing was on the ballot in this election: National Low Income Housing Coalition's @ourhomesvotes campaign tracked 100+ housing & homelessness ballot measures! Let's celebrate these victories for housing justice, and congratulate the organizers who made them possible.

Results of the housing-related ballot measures voted on across the country this past election: By: Multifamily Dive buff.ly/48EOz8N

"Trump proposes concentration camps for the poor" is a more accurate headline