So True with Caleb Hearon Tara Raghuveer is Lowering Your Rent
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Oct 24, 2024 Tara Raghuveer, a community organizer who co-founded KC Tenants and helped launch the Tenant Union Federation, joins to discuss tenant power and collective action. They talk tenant identity and why unions matter. Conversation covers rent strikes, targeting federally backed landlords, brutal living conditions, and visions like social housing and cooperatives.
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Frame Strikes As Collective Disobedience
- Treat rent strikes as collective disobedience when landlords breach contracts.
- Explain to neighbors that strikes respond to landlord failure, not legal formalities.
Moving Isn't A Real Option For Many
- Poor tenants often cannot move because alternative housing is unaffordable or requires prohibitive fees.
- Landlords exploit this with security, pet and service fees due to lack of regulation.
Trailer Park Campaign United Diverse Neighbors
- KC Tenants organized a trailer park threatened by county displacement and won millions for relocation.
- 111 of 120 families joined despite some being Trump voters and later chanted 'homes, not jails.'
