An enthusiastic and persuasive manifesto on housing rights as human rights. It’s encouraging to see such robust organizing among tenants across the country, and the practical template for how to expand it. The authors rightly quote Ursula Le Guin: our housing system is a human power—produced by people, not God or nature. And any human power, she wrote, can be changed by human beings.
Further recent reading:
Tressie McMillam Cotton on the Louisville tenets union: https://www.nytimes.com/2024/08/06/opinion/housing-louisville-tenants-union.html?unlocked_article_code=1.A04.LDkZ.vgrAqOxs76HU
Cory Doctorow, who says, “Any future worth living in is going to get housing right. We need to stop thinking of housing as an asset and realize that it is, first and foremost, a human right.” https://pluralistic.net/2024/10/01/housing-is-a-human-right/
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