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Tenants union. A tenants union, also known as a tenants association, is a group of tenants that collectively organize to improve the conditions of their housing and mutually educate about their rights as renters. [ 1][ 2] Groups may also lobby local officials to change housing policies or address homelessness.
KC Tenants was founded with an annual budget of $30,000, which has grown to almost $600,000 in June 2023. [ 1] The union has worked together with Mayor Quinton Lucas on housing policy, [ 3] notably passing a tenant's bill of rights in 2019 that included banning "discrimination against prospective tenants solely because of a prior arrest ...
John Francis Hylan. Number. 10,000's to 100,000's. of striking tenants. Casualties and losses. Many arrests and evictions. The 1918–1920 New York City rent strikes were some of the most significant tenant mobilizations against landlords in New York City history. [2] Prior to the strikes, a housing shortage caused by World War I exacerbated ...
The International Union of Tenants ( IUT) is a non-governmental organisation representing 74 tenants' organisations in 51 countries advocating for tenants' rights and defending tenants' interests. [1] IUT's stated aims include safeguarding the interests of tenants and the promotion of affordable healthy housing throughout the world.
AFL. UFW. The Southern Tenant Farmers Union ( STFU ), later known as the National Farm Labor Union, the National Agricultural Workers Union, and the Agricultural and Allied Workers Union, was founded as a civil farmer's union to organize tenant farmers in the Southern United States. [ 1][ 2][ 3] Many such tenant farmer sharecroppers were Black ...
The Crown Heights Tenant Union (CHTU) is a tenants union created in October 2013 to unify old and new tenants against the gentrification of the neighborhood of Crown Heights, Brooklyn, New York City. [1] [2] The CHTU has pushed for local collective bargaining agreements between tenants and landlords to be written into the deeds of buildings ...
Vancouver Tenants Union; This page was last edited on 15 July 2023, at 15:37 (UTC). Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License 4. ...
Community Action Tenants Union is a national tenants' union in Ireland. Established in 2019, [2] it is a mass membership organisation of "renters, council tenants, mortgage holders and people in emergency & precarious living situations". [3] CATU is affiliated to ACORN International. [4]