NEW HOUSING INVESTIGATION: Thomas Birmingham found widespread mold in New Haven’s low-income housing is linked to an asthma rate 2x the national average. Hospitalizations & even death appear linked. It’s a dramatically growing problem across CT & the nation. inthesetimes.com/article/mold-l…

Incredible episode with the brilliant tracy rosenthal and Leonardo

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...

STRIKE NEWS: In response to ongoing strikes in federally-financed properties, on October 29 the Federal Housing Finance Agency (FHFA) offered the Tenant Union Federation a formal engagement with Director Sandra Thompson in Washington DC.

There's "the economy" according to suits with elite degrees and then there's "the economy" according to working people who can't afford their rent and groceries. The first group calls the shots but fundamentally lacks knowledge of or curiosity about the second group.

[#Louisville Action Alert] Stand with us on 11/12 at 1:00PM at City Hall to pass the Anti-Displacement Assessment Tool! Check out this video to learn more about the tool! #TenantPower #PolicyProtected WDRB News WHAS11 News Louisville Public Media Courier Journal ShamekaParrishWright Louisville Tenants Union

Spent last weekend training Louisville Tenants Union and this weekend training KC Tenants. As the takes continue swirling, tenants are getting in formation to exercise our ultimate power: our rent. If we have a chance, the chance lives in the tenant union ❤️‍🔥

Congrats Jecorey Arthur on advancing anti-displacement tool in Louisville Metro Government Planning & Zoning Committee yesterday w/ support from Jessica Bellamy (any/all/y’all) & Louisville Tenants Union. Next Thur full Council! Thx research team Andre Comandon, Prof. Loretta Lees 🇬🇧🇺🇸🇮🇪 & my units UMN CURA & Initiative on Cities 👇🔥

Check out this applied-research I've been finishing w/ Initiative on Cities, Prof. Loretta Lees 🇬🇧🇺🇸🇮🇪 & Andre Comandon, in collaboration w/ Jecorey Arthur & Louisville Tenants Union "Louisville Advances the Country’s Strongest Planning Tool to Mitigate Displacement" cura.umn.edu/news/louisvill…

How a first-of-its-kind tool aims to prevent gentrification in Louisville. Very proud to have designed this Anti-Displacement Tool with ⁦Andre Comandon⁩ ⁦Kenton Card (@kentoncard.bsky.social)⁩. Thanks to ⁦Jecorey Arthur⁩ & ⁦Louisville Tenants Union⁩ courier-journal.com/story/news/pol…

A first-of-its-kind tool aims to prevent gentrification in Louisville. Its creation was mandated by an anti-displacement law passed last November — which you may remember Mayor Craig Greenberg refused to sign. 🧵 courier-journal.com/story/news/pol…

On November 21, 2024, the Louisville Metro Council unanimously approved a first-of-its-kind Anti-Displacement Assessment Tool developed by Prof. Loretta Lees 🇬🇧🇺🇸🇮🇪, Kenton Card (@kentoncard.bsky.social), and Andre Comandon collaborating with Jecorey Arthur and Louisville Tenants Union. Learn more🔗 bu.edu/ioc/2024/11/21…

HAPPENING TONIGHT!!!!!

ICYMI: A supermajority of workers at BlueOval SK (BOSK) in Kentucky have signed union authorization cards and today launched their public campaign to join the UAW. uaw.org/supermajority-…

United once balked on paying for one of my mom’s life saving medicines and used the opinion of an orthopedic surgeon who at the time was employed by a middling NFL team in last place in the NFC south to justify the move bc it wasn’t “medically necessary.”

"We are at the same crossroads now where the leaders in Connecticut need to decide what threshold of human dignity for tenants they will require." Great article in support of just cause from Partnership for Strong Communities ctmirror.org/2024/12/04/ten…

New from Ruthy and me in The American Prospect as Tenant Union Federation preps for 2025: ‼️What to expect on housing with Trump 2.0 ‼️How tenants are experimenting with unions and strikes ‼️What we could win if we approach this issue with the seriousness it deserves prospect.org/infrastructure…

Our pres & VP got to discuss the resurgence of tenant unions in CT, the history of tenant organizing, the importance of expanding just cause eviction protections, "landlord math," and more in this interview on Connecticut Public, along with Ginny Monk & DataHaven Connecticut Data Hub ctpublic.org/show/where-we-…

For The Nation I wrote about the invention of the Red State—a 2 decade process of mystification, pathologizing, and hand-waving thenation.com/article/politi…

Without workers, Starbucks can’t exist. Tell Starbucks’ CEO to respect workers, negotiate in good faith, resolve hundreds of outstanding unfair labor practices, and share the profits that workers — not CEOs — make. Starbucks Workers United …arbucksworkersunited.controlshift.app/petitions/tell…