Ep 43 - Housing Justice and Tenants Unions

THE RENT IS TOO DAMN HIGH, BUT YOU CAN DO SOMETHING ABOUT IT. LISTEN TO FIND OUT HOW. - Kim & Tabby from the Wimby Tenants Union join Margot from Portland Tenants United to talk Garrett & I about how they started a tenants union at Wimbledon Square Apartments to fight back against the horrible "management" company and what wasn't getting fixed. They started small and expanded into bringing demands directly about the landlords. We also go into how the popular discourse around renting can't really get into how plenty of people actually live and why they rent. "I'm working on a theory that renters are the new proletariat." More coverage: "Tenants Organize Against Poor Living Conditions" - https://reedquest.org/articles/2018/12/7/war-at-the-wimbledons "Tenants at SE Portland apartment complex call for rent abatement" - https://www.kptv.com/tenants-at-se-portland-apartment-complex-call-for-rent-abatement/video_02327c39-9fc9-5d36-979e-1c5816947e0c.html Contact: - Portland Tenants United - [email protected] - https://www.facebook.com/portlandtenantsunited/ Wimby TU - [email protected] - Voicemail: 503-974-4011 - https://www.facebook.com/wimbytenantsunion/ - Text "WIMBY" to 444-999 to get on the update list! - Ending music: a certain Dead Kennedys track - The show got mentioned in the New Yorker: https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2018/11/19/how-podcasts-became-a-seductive-and-sometimes-slippery-mode-of-storytelling ---- Hear Garrett's band Late Shift at https://lateshiftcountry.bandcamp.com/ - @comradegarrett @givingthemic - Questions/comments/suggestions for great local Korean food: [email protected] - http://facebook.com/givingthemic/ - Help us make the show! http://www.patreon.com/givingthemic - - - - Main theme by The Mysterious Breakfast'r Cereal on SoundCloud @chiptheme - - The Homo Vulgaris podcast - https://soundcloud.com/hvulgaris - - All items trademarked and copyright their respective owners. Please don't sue. Please don't sue. Please don't sue.