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Tenant organizing, and tenant unions specifically, are an attempt to ensure that tenants—44 million households nationwide—are not merely consumers of housing policy but authors of their own stories.
Tenant unions are not new, but the current wave of tenant organizing reflects today’s economic conditions, which make it increasingly difficult in cities across the country for anyone but the wealthiest to comfortably afford a place to live. In this environment, a new generation of tenant organizers has emerged—people who understand that the single best place to connect with community members is at their door, talking about the single biggest economic issue facing their family.
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