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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. Some of the issues behind tenant unions arise in response to specific bad managers or issues of safety.

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Public Land for Public Good: Preserving Miami’s Dominican Neighborhood

NonProfit Quarterly

Those who’ve managed to scratch out a way to stay are at risk every day of being erased. That period of intensive triage demonstrated our organization’s immediate value and, just as important, the value of community organizing. “I And those small businesses leasing commercial spaces along the corridor I saw on my first visit?

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

NonProfit Quarterly

Stunningly, the same report found that 51 percent of Ellis Act evictions were done within one year of landlords acquiring the properties—a sure sign that the evictions had nothing to do with landlords “retiring” and everything to do with landlords seeking to extract more value from the properties they had purchased.

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