query: tenants union resources

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[ed:  thanks to Kalima for replying to Windy's query.]

From: "Kalima Rose" <krose at policylink.org>


City Life/Vida Urbana in Boston is one of nation's greatest
immigrant-focused tenants groups and part of larger Boston Tenants
Coalition. Oakland's Just Cause is another; and Los Angeles' Social
Action for a Just Economy (SAJE) has many huge victories under its belt.


Kalima Rose
PolicyLink


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> From: Windy Cooler-Stith <windy_coolerstith at yahoo.com>
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> Hi Co-list,
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> My family and I live in a very low income, mainly immigrant, apartment 
> building in the Maryland suburbs of DC. For the past year I've been 
> organizing in the building, primarily through relationship building, to 
> positively affect the management of the property. We've had some big 
> wins recently, including a forced change in management personnel, huge 
> structural repairs, and the recension of some very punitive policies. At 
> first, we thought a lot of the hardest work might be over, but there are 
> still issues, some of which are new, that agitate us and our fellow 
> tenants. The building is surrounded by other low-income apartments, 
> though these are mainly filled with students, and in which our 
> relationships are more limited. I'm thinking of trying to build a formal 
> renters union at this point.
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> I'd like to know what resources people on the list might recommend to us 
> as we think this over.
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> Thanks,
> Windy
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> Henry David Thoreau (1817-1862):"It is not enough to tell me that you 
> worked hard to get your gold. So does the devil work hard."
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> [ed:  my first stop for info like this is http://www.tenant.net/]
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