From Policy to Power: Centering People by Supporting Tenant Unions - Non Profit News

From Policy to Power: Centering People by Supporting Tenant Unions - Non Profit News

Image Credit: A Disappearing Act on Wikimedia Commons. When you see the phrase “housing policy,” what do you imagine? Many people may imagine large, multi-unit buildings and arguments over zoning or code enforcement or the definition of affordability. But what about the people in those buildings? Tenant organizing, and tenant unions specifically, are an attempt to ensure that tenants—44 million households nationwide—are not merely consumers of h…

The right to housing is a right that is increasingly violated and we have examples of it every day of less or less intensity. The media has been talking about it for some time, but how is it done and who is given a voice? Are the multiple effects of this problem sufficiently explained? We talk about it with journalist Andreu Merino, in an interview that you can also listen to on the Mèdia.cat podcast. What has happened to Casa Orsola that for a …