Working minimum wage in Houston? You need to work 112 hours to afford a 2BR apartment.
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Renters in Houston need to make $21.23 per hour to pay fair market value.Renters of the world, uniting! ✊💥🌈 Energising and moving day on Saturday as the LRU held its first ever all-member assembly and celebrated turning 1 year old! 🎂🎉
Since we launched London-wide last summer, we've grown from 1 branch to 3 (with hopefully more to come soon!), and from a handful of members to well over a thousand 📈
We've won plenty of important victories through collective action - for our members and renters across London!
🚫 Section 21 No-fault evictions: abolished
🛠 Urgent repairs to members' homes: completed
💪 Illegal evictions: resisted
💰 Rent stolen by landlords: returned
⚔️ Unfair rent increases: fought off
💸 Rent controls in London: Mayor committed
🏡 Rehousing of members into better conditions: secured...
The list goes on, and Saturday was a day to celebrate all we've managed to achieved in such a short time, by having each other's backs and trusting the collective power of ordinary renters working together. ✊
Not just that: it was a also chance to educate ourselves about the housing crisis and plan for the future. We collectively agreed some new and improved demands for a transformed housing system, and began planning how our campaigns might look over the next year. Exciting!
To keep winning these victories and building our power, we need to grow. If you're not a member yet (why not?!) then you can join up here - subs are only needed if you can afford it:
londonrentersunion.org/join/
What the L-R-U waiting for?? Get involved, join a branch or a working group, and help us unite London's 3 million renters to win homes for people, not profit! 💥
Maria del Pilar Hurtado, a leading member of a community of 17,000 people who had occupied a plot on the outskirts of Tierralta, Cordoba Colombia after being displaced by the construction of a nearby hydroelectric dam in 2001 was murdered Friday for the continued occupation of a plot of land that belonged to the father of the Mayor of Tierraalta Fabio Otero. She was murdered in from of 2 of her children. In other parts of the world, the fight for human dignity in housing is life and death. #SayHerName
The murder that made something snap in Colombia
colombiareports.com
While President Ivan Duque was enjoying a trip to Europe, the murder of yet another community leader on Friday triggered a wave of indignation in Colombia unseen in recent memory.…High rents push people into unwanted and unsafe dating situations -- and the landlord class isn't at all embarrassed about it.
For the Poor, Eviction Is a Serial Threat, Not a One-Time Event
citylab.com
New research finds that landlords rarely intend to evict tenants when they file for eviction. Instead, they do so to recoup late rent and gain leverage.