Letter: On Including Incarcerated Folks in Our Definition of Tenant
After posting our Points of Unity on Instagram, BED received a critique regarding our second point from our comrades at the Reverie Tenants Union in Indianapolis. BED’s Point #2 reads: “Our definition of a tenant is anyone who does not control their own housing....
Letter: Burn Your Eviction Notice
Another paradigm is possible – alternatively, where dispossessory pieces of paper (eviction notices) are unenforceable; where profit-motives do not demolish peoples, cultures, and histories; where rent-free, de-commodifed housing exists for all. ...
Letter: On Stoopwatches
A letter on organizational practices, direction and democracy Recently our organization pulled back from a lot of the court-case outreach we had been doing; this was a decision made because with the moratorium’s expiration and with our organizational growth,...
Should We Participate in Bourgeois Coalitions?
a paper written by comrade on the stoop during the 964 Park Place Defense – 2 March 2022 During a recent Housing Justice For All (HJ4A) field call, one of the coalition’s two paid staff organizers led the 50+ tenant organizers in a reading and discussing of...