{"product_id":"abolish-rent-how-tenants-can-end-the-housing-crisis-paperback","title":"Abolish Rent: How Tenants Can End the Housing Crisis - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eTracy Rosenthal\u003c\/b\u003e (Author), \u003cb\u003eLeonardo Vilchis\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cem\u003eAbolish Rent\u003c\/em\u003e takes aim at one of the foremost engines of inequality and injustice.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003eRent drives millions into debt, despair, and onto the streets. The social cost of rent is too damn high. Written for anyone fed up with the permanent housing crisis, complicit politicians, and real estate greed, \u003cem\u003eAbolish Rent \u003c\/em\u003edissects our housing system from the perspective of those it immiserates. Through brisk, unequivocating analysis and\u003cbr\u003estriking stories of resistance, it shows us how tenants can, through organizing and\u003cbr\u003ecollective action, finally rebalance the scales. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eFrom two co-founders of the largest tenants' union in the country, this deeply reported account of the resurgent tenant movement centers poor and working-class people who are fighting back, staying put, and remaking the city in the process. Authors Tracy Rosenthal and Leonardo Vilchis take us to trilingual strategy meetings, raucous marches against gentrification, and daring eviction defenses where immigrants put their lives on the line. These are the seeds of the revolutionary movement we need to make our housing, our cities, and the world our home.\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eTracy Rosenthal\u003c\/strong\u003e is a co-founder of the L.A. Tenants Union whose writing has been published in \u003cem\u003eThe New Republic, \u003c\/em\u003e \u003cem\u003eThe Nation\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003e The LA Times, \u003c\/em\u003eand others. They serve on the advisory board of Housing the Third Reconstruction with UCLA's Institute on Inequality and Democracy. Rosenthal is now on rent strike in New York City. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eLeonardo Vilchis\u003c\/strong\u003e has been organizing tenants in Boyle Heights for more than thirty years. Trained in liberation theology, he co-founded Union de Vecinos in 1996 to stop the demolition of the Pico Aliso public housing projects, winning the right of return for two hundred and fifty families. In 2015, he co-founded the L.A. Tenants Union to organize tenant power at a citywide scale. Merging with LATU in 2019 to form the Union de Vecinos Eastside Local, Union de Vecinos has maintained a leadership role defending the long-term community against gentrification and displacement. Vilchis was activist-in-residence at the UCLA Luskin Institute on Inequality and Democracy in 2020 and now serves on the advisory board of its Housing the Third Reconstruction research endeavor. He lives in Los Angeles. \n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 224\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.7 x 7.4 x 5.2 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e September 24, 2024\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":52766409621811,"sku":"9798888902523","price":24.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0300\/5595\/6612\/files\/FC6UzDYrLP9798888902523.webp?v=1764649576","url":"https:\/\/www.vysn.com\/en-ca\/products\/abolish-rent-how-tenants-can-end-the-housing-crisis-paperback","provider":"VYSN","version":"1.0","type":"link"}