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Building Tenant Power for the Long Haul: A Story from Long Beach, California

NonProfit Quarterly

Long Beach is among the nation’s most ethnically diverse cities. Despite being home to many culturally diverse neighborhoods, the city remains deeply segregated, a lasting effect from decades of redlining. Community land trusts, or CLTs, take land out of the speculative market on a 99-year ground lease.

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Holding Our Ground: Tenant Organizing in San Francisco’s Mission District

NonProfit Quarterly

The law was meant to allow landlords to retire from the rental business, not to evict tenants and flip property, but abuses are common. To name a few: Every time a rent-controlled unit is lost, the new market-rate rent averages over $3,500 for a one-bedroom unit. Often, this is done by converting rental housing to condo ownership.

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