Berkeley Tenants Union

Unable to pay your rent or having trouble with your landlord? Unionize! Most Berkeley tenants now have a legally-enforceable right to unionize and collectively bargain with the landlord! Go to unionize.berkeleytenants.org to start organizing w BTU and form your official tenant union!

(California tenants living outside Alameda and Contra Costa counties should call @TenantsTogether at 888-495-8020 for counseling - both for responding to evictions and for general assistance.)

Because of the extremely unfair legal deadlines for tenants facing evictions, it is crucial for tenants to react very quickly to eviction notices (even for blatantly illegal evictions). Do NOT wait to use our counseling clinic if you are facing an eviction.***

Are you unable to pay rent or having trouble with your landlord? Our next FREE counseling clinic for East Bay tenants is Thursday, April 23 from 3-5pm! The deadline to sign-up at clinic.berkeleytenants.org (link in bio too) is this Tuesday, April 21, i.e. two days before the clinic.

Rent control and tenant protections are on the chopping block for tenants in nonprofit buildings. Comment in person or over Zoom! berkeleyca.gov/your-governmen…

The 2026 Berkeley Tenants Convention is on Sunday, April 19! Help select the progressive, pro-tenant Berkeley Rent Board slate. Make sure to RSVP and/or request a ballot at berkeleytenants.org/convention

Berkeley Tenants Union meeting tomorrow! ⭐️

NEW 2026 Berkeley Tenants Convention information 🏡 berkeleytenants.org/convention

California tenants living outside Alameda and Contra Costa counties should call @TenantsTogether at 888-495-8020 for counseling (both for responding to evictions and for general assistance).

If a landlord threatens eviction for ANY reason, *immediately* email info@berkeleytenants.org w/ subject line "I AM BEING EVICTED" for help. B/c of very unfair legal deadlines for (even illegal) evictions, it's crucial to react ASAP. Do NOT wait to use our clinic for evictions.

Are you unable to pay rent or having trouble with your landlord? Our next FREE counseling clinic with tenant attorneys for East Bay tenants is Thursday, January 29 at 3-5pm! The sign-up deadline is this Sunday, January 25 (i.e. FOUR days beforehand). docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAI…

Join BTU’s Discord to stay connected, chat with fellow organizers, and keep up to date on important events! discord.gg/tSUf4j6F35

Join us for the first BTU meeting of the new year at 4:00 PM on January 25th at the Grassroots House, run by your newly elected steering committee! The meeting will be a potluck as well, all are welcome! 🥘🍪

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Meet your new Berkeley Tenants Union Steering Committee! 🏠 (1/2)

Mamdani: For too long, those fluent in the good grammar of civility have deployed decorum to mask agendas of cruelty

MA voters will decide whether to overturn a decades-old ban on rent control that will cap annual rent hikes. It’s people power versus the billionaire real estate interests. @homesforallmass wbur.org/news/2025/12/0…

one last thing: “Abundance” is being used in CA against just-cause eviction protections for tenants returning to wildfire-ravaged communities. no, not rent control. just *telling someone why they’re being evicted.* if that’s not mindless deregulation, I don’t know what is 🤷🏽‍♀️

"“[Although] this settlement [may halt] Greystar’s use of price fixing software… just $7 million for a landlord [of] 950,000 units… [does not] disincentivize other landlords from forming effective cartels in the future,” said [BTU Chair] Avery Arbaugh." dailycal.org/news/city/law-…

We stand with #PasadenaGatewayVillas and the Pasadena Tenants Association as they organize against their new landlord @Hines, who is leveraging junk fees, coercive lease changes, & retaliation to squeeze tenants out. We won't stand for these abusive tactics!