#tenantorganizing — Public Fediverse posts

This Sunday, February 15, the tenants' union is calling on people across the island to join their closest neighbourhood branch for a day of flyering, postering, stickering, and door-knocking.

We are starting to receive yet another wave of rent increases that for many of us spells further poverty, burnout, or eviction. We will not pay for the riches of landlords. Don't let them take the city while we sleep! We need every hand on deck to organize our neighbourhoods into mass fighting organizations for our self-defence and liberation.

Where and when to join us:
in #Hochelaga: tenant circle at 12 pm; postering and flyering meet-up at 2 pm at 1800 Letourneux
in #MileEnd / #Outremont: 1 pm at 5550 Parc (YMCA du Parc)
in the #PlateauMTL / downtown: 12 pm at 3516 Parc
in #CentreSudMTL: 3 pm at métro Frontenac
in #VerdunMTL: 2 pm at métro de l'Église
on the #LigneBleue: 12 pm at métro Parc

#Montreal #MTL
#TenantPower #TenantUnion #TenantOrganizing

At the end of the month, Firestorm Books and Asheville Democratic Socialists of America are teaming up to host "Abolish Rent" co-author Tracy Rosenthal for a virtual conversation! This free event caps off a tenant organizing book club facilitated by DSA and is open everyone.

"Abolish Rent: How Tenants Can End the Housing Crisis" is a deeply reported account of the resurgent tenant movement centering poor and working-class people who are fighting back, staying put, and remaking the city in the process. The authors take us to trilingual strategy meetings, raucous marches against gentrification, and daring eviction defenses where immigrants put their lives on the line.

Locals can join this author conversation in-person while remote participants should register for access at https://firestorm.coop/events/3431-abolish-rent-author-event.html. We hope you can make it!

#TenantOrganizing #TenantUnion #AbolishRent #FeministBookstore #AshevilleDSA #FirestormCoop (- L)

Gonna send this email to landlord, please copy, adjust and send to yours as well:

Hello,

I am writing to make some ground rules known, to be followed from here on out.

I will not be taking phone or voicecalls, as you have made it clear that I need everything in writing. You have not kept your word in the past. I expect that to change.

I will not be answering the same questions over and over again. If I have gone to the trouble of informing you of issues or even provided pictures and videos, I expect you to refer back to my email or text before asking me to provide the same information again. You can ask for clarifications if needed.

Unless specified otherwise, I give permission for you to share the information I have given you whith the relevant people needed to adress the issue, for example repair people, contractors, plumbers, chimney sweep. In fact you need to let them know what their tasks will be and make sure they come prepared, equipped and with enough human power and time to safely complete the necessary tasks.

I am not your slave driver. If a contractor arrives again unprepared and underequipped for the work at hand, I will not ask them to endanger their health by doing the task anyway.

You need to give me a reasonable amount of time to answer your questions before restating them. If a matter is not urgent, I may take a full work day to respond. If the matter is trivial, I may take two weeks. If I cannot give an answer yet, I will wait until I can actually answer your question (for example: "Was the problem fixed?" can only be answered after the contractor has had time to fix it).

I am willing to keep you up to date on the issues with the property, but you also need to fulfil your duties as owner and landlord. I am not going to go out of my way to do your work for you.

I also need you to give me the relevant information I need in order to fulfill my own duties as tenant. It would have been useful to get the contact information or at least company names of the usual services (trash collection, septic tank emptying, chimney sweep). I did ask about these upon moving in.

- [same name as on lease]

#alab #renting #tenant #TenantOrganizing #TenantOrganiser #TenantsUnion #landlord #landlord_is_not_a_job #template #resources

Our union is organizing a neighbourhood discussion in #Hochelaga on this year's #RentIncrease. The discussion will be in French, but we have a similar workshop in English coming up soon, organized by our Centre-Sud / Village tenant council (stay tuned).

The workshop in Hochelaga will be this Saturday, 12pm, at 1800 Letourneux. Childcare and food will be provided. All are welcome!

In this public meeting, we will be discussing how to start organizing with your neighbours, how to refuse increases together, and how to win negotiations with your landlord by applying pressure through collective actions for reductions in our rent increases.

Landlords and the Tribunal are not on our side. We are fighting rent increases this year that are the highest they’ve been in decades. Say, “No!” to hikes TOGETHER as neighbours. If you would like help fighting against your rent increase, don't hesitate to reach out.

#Montreal #MTL
#TenantOrganizing #TenantPower #TenantUnion

This Saturday we will be doing a BBQ and public forum 12pm at Parc Lafontaine (Panet/Sherbrooke) to discuss the rent strike. We will be going over the "whys and hows" of this rent strike of 5,000 tenants. It would be very useful if people could boost :boostRequest:​:boostRequest:​:boostRequest:​ this event on the Fediverse, on other social media and in your friends-only group chats!

Check out the photos attached to the French version of this post of a few banners that have been dropped: https://social.edist.ro/@slammatu/110907410554223830

each out to us for your own banner or for helping in making one yourself! We can use as many tenants as possible hanging banners from their balcony.

In case of a strong rain forecast, we may move to 3714 Parc. We will send another email out if this is the case. Otherwise, we plan to have canopy tents and chairs at the Parc!

En solidarité!

#Montreal #MTL #MTLPol
#QCPol #QCPoli
#TenantOrganizing #TenantPower #TenantUnion
#RentStrike #Housing4All

We present here a form for Montrealers pledging to go on #RentStrike either in Fall 2023 or when we reach the requisite amount of pledges. The rent strike is against #Bill31 (#ProjetDuLoi31 or #PDL31) proposed by the #CAQ, for housing the unhoused, and against the rent increases that #Quebec landlords have been demanding of tenants.

https://cryptpad.fr/form/#/2/form/view/az8TFuwxk7WPseVABEzja5o8sTLqpSj8+9E9X07VFGE/

If 5,001 people fill out this pledge (that's five thousand plus one), a rent strike will be called. If 5,001 people do not fill out this pledge, then anyone who has filled it out does not need to go on rent strike. The rent strike committee will contact you for strike meetings and to let you know if 5,001 pledges to strike have been received.

#Montreal #MTL #MTLPol
#QCPol #QCPoli
#TenantOrganizing #TenantPower #TenantUnion
#Housing4All #AbolishLandlords

National Rent Control? It’s Closer Than You Think.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BlF6a0JLsYc&ab_channel=MorePerfectUnion

A historic wave of tenant organizing is on the verge of winning renter protections that would be attached to federal loans—affecting 1 in 4 apartments. But Greystar, Blackstone, and AvalonBay are spending millions to block it.
They're a part of a coalition of massive landlords, baks, and investors who are pooling resources to block rent control and renter protection policies.
One of the biggest landlord industry lobbying groups is called the National Multifamily Housing Council. That group has spent almost $10 million lobbying against rent control.
Despite this opposition, we're seeing one of the largest upticks in tenant organizing since the 1970s, as renters across the country face worsening housing crisis. Groups like KC Tenants are at the forefront of this movement, fighting to stop unfair rent hikes and corporate slumlords..

#pricegouging #pricefixing #abusiverent #slumlords #economicassault #tenantorganizing #renterprotection #rentcontrol #rent

#OTD in 1932, during the Great Depression, around 1,000 Bronx residents harassed and fought marshals and the police in an attempt to prevent the eviction of 3 tenants. Together with similar actions in New York City throughout the early months of 1932, roughly 77,000 tenants were spared from eviction.

Today’s art can be found here: https://www.jonathansri.com/antievictiondirectaction

...and you can learn more here: https://libcom.org/article/unemployed-workers-movement-frances-fox-piven-and-richard-cloward

#history #TenantOrganizing #NYC #UnitedStates #GreatDepression #ToWeRi #Feb2

#OTD in 1932, during the Great Depression, around 1,000 Bronx residents harassed and fought marshals and the police in an attempt to prevent the eviction of 3 tenants. Together with similar actions in New York City throughout the early months of 1932, roughly 77,000 tenants were spared from eviction.

Today’s art can be found here: https://www.jonathansri.com/antievictiondirectaction

...and you can learn more here: https://libcom.org/article/unemployed-workers-movement-frances-fox-piven-and-richard-cloward

#history #TenantOrganizing #NYC #UnitedStates #GreatDepression #ToWeRi #Feb2

#OTD in 1932, during the Great Depression, around 1,000 Bronx residents harassed and fought marshals and the police in an attempt to prevent the eviction of 3 tenants. Together with similar actions in New York City throughout the early months of 1932, roughly 77,000 tenants were spared from eviction.

Today’s art can be found here: https://www.jonathansri.com/antievictiondirectaction

...and you can learn more here: https://libcom.org/article/unemployed-workers-movement-frances-fox-piven-and-richard-cloward

#history #TenantOrganizing #NYC #UnitedStates #GreatDepression #ToWeRi #Feb2