Tenants Talk 7 Out Now!
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This issue is the second to come out of our new monthly printing schedule. It features articles about homeownership, the rent strikes in Kansas City, and of course updates on the slumlords in our own neighborhoods and how tenants have been fighting back.
This issue also featured the very first Tenants Talk kid’s page, with games and educational information for children. Find that page in the downloadable scan of the print edition found here.
As with each edition, members of the All-Chicago Tenant Alliance will be distributing this issue on Saturdays as we speak to tenants in the neighborhood about their landlords.
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Eyes On The Landlord (Tenants Talk 7)
All across the country we are witnessing a shift in the attitude of landlords towards their tenants. Following the most recent wave of tenant organizations, landlords are frightened. We can see it in the press, where they spew their propaganda to erode the few protections tenants still have. They will appeal to you as if you own a home–as if you are not…
Homeowner Blues
The relationship between my mother and I has, at times, been strained but only recently settled into lukewarm waters. The time between our correspondences increased gradually until we fell into rhythm. After a period of inactivity she calls to give me updates, and in return I do the same. At this point in our relationship she has been met with disappoin…
Janko Properties
Something is brewing across Chicago. Tenants are tired of being beaten down by slumlords. In a number of buildings under the thumb of Janko Properties, tenants are coming to recognize something new: that they don’t have to fight back alone.
Lessons From The Kansas City Rent Strike
For a long time, renting an apartment in Kansas City has been a lot like renting one in Chicago. Tenants here and there have a lot in common. But on October 1st the Kansas City tenants took a historic stride out in front of the tenants of Chicago——they started a rent strike. Together, in coordinated and strategic fashion, they stopped paying rent at the…