Tenant Union Federation

THE BEGINNING OF A NEW BEGINNING: Kentucky Tenant Union wins first tenant-bargained agreement in the South‼️ Yesterday two unions negotiated with their shared landlord and secured recognition, lease renewals, a 10-day grace period for rent, repairs schedule incl. mold remediation

Minnesota tenants are organizing for a massive rent strike after ICE raids & lost wages push families to the brink—backed by unions representing 25K+ workers. @RebeccaJBurns_ & @sarahlazare on why what’s building in the Twin Cities matters everywhere. inthesetimes.com/article/ice-mi…

Help us call tenants across the Twin Cities and build 10,000 pledges for the March 1st rent strike! We fought ICE out of Minnesota. Now we’re fighting to keep them in their homes. No experience needed. Out of towners welcome. Sign up: twin-cities-tenants.solidarity.tech/sign-up-phone-…

The largest rent strike in a century? The Minnesota unions behind the massive Jan. 23 day of action are now backing a potential rent strike to demand an eviction moratorium. At least 10K could withhold rent starting March 1. Here's what to know (🧵) inthesetimes.com/article/ice-mi…

“The occupation that’s taken place has woken so many of us up to the fact that we are all part of what’s happening with this... It directly affects everyone. And so we’ve shown how community pulls together.” @inthesetimesmag on our historic strike drive: inthesetimes.com/article/ice-mi…

MAJOR: Twin Cities Tenants joins five labor unions, together repping 25,900 members, to launch a rent strike drive, vowing to withhold rent March 1 if @GovTimWalz fails to deliver an eviction moratorium and rent relief. If launched, the largest US rent strike in 100+ years.

🚨 BREAKING 🚨 Twin Cities Tenant Union has announced a plan to execute a city-wide rent strike starting on March 1st!

In @Bisnow: “Mr. Eichler and Capital Realty Group have the opportunity to do the right thing, which is in the interest of all involved parties: return to the bargaining table and sign an agreement with the unions. As of now, they are failing to do so." #selection-977.37-1065.214" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">archive.ph/AYHiE#selectio…

Tenants across four states are joining forces to take on private equity landlord Capital Realty Group. From New Haven to Detroit, Louisville, and Kansas City, hundreds of renters are organizing through @TenantFed to demand collective bargaining. inthesetimes.com/article/privat…

In the last six weeks, we've launched seven (7) majority tenant unions, across five (5) states, representing over 1000 units of housing owned by Capital Realty Group, a New York-based corporate landlord. The first portfolio organizing of its kind... bloomberg.com/news/articles/…

“a ‘function of necessity’ in response to the consolidation of rental housing by large landlords: ‘As the challenges facing tenants have grown more complex in an increasingly global housing market tenant organizing is itself becoming more sophisticated” bloomberg.com/news/articles/…

Kansas City tenants are declaring victory after an 8- month rent strike. Their old landlord was ousted, and they have a signed agreement with the new one that caps rents + guarantees repairs. More details from @KCTenants and @TenantFed for @inthesetimesmag (link below).

"Absent meaningful action from the government, the question is not whether tenants will revolt, but whether the revolt will be from a place of desperation or a place of power. To ensure the latter, tenants are organizing unions" @TenantFed prospect.org/infrastructure…

New from @ruthgourevitch and me in @TheProspect as @TenantFed 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…

"The Tenant Union Federation (@TenantFed) is fostering a wave of tenant leaders who have been pushed to the margins—many of them elderly, disabled, low-income—as they aim to transform renters into a powerful political class." thenation.com/article/societ…

STRIKE UPDATE: Quality Hill Towers Tenant Union announced a pause in their 64-day rent strike, a commitment to reaching an agreement with their landlord, Sentinel Corporation. Independence Towers Tenant Union will strike in December, marking the union’s third month on strike.

TODAY: Open call with @FlyingWithSara, @OlufemiOTaiwo, and organizers from @caaav, @KCTenants, @LouTenantsUnion, Minnesota, Tacoma, Bozeman. Tenants on rent strike will issue a call to organize, and we will offer support. Register: bit.ly/tufcall

Spent last weekend training @LouTenantsUnion and this weekend training @KCTenants. 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 ❤️‍🔥

If the regulators agree to stay the night (unlikely), they live momentarily what the tenants live daily- mold, roaches, asbestos… If they don’t, they show that they wouldn’t accept these conditions for even one night, but they’re comfortable subjecting us to them.

For years tenants have woken up to bugs crawling on them, undrinkable water, inches of standing water in their bathtub, and holes in the ceiling with actual shit raining down on them. This response isn't just negligent, it's cruel.