Abolish Rent: A dialouge with the Co-Founders of the largest Tenant Union

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Monday,November 18th, 2024

6:30 PM – 8:00 PM (EST)

Lang Cafe/ Ground Floor
Eugene Lang college building
65 W 11th Street, New York, NY

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Rent 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, Abolish Rent dissects our housing
system from the perspective of those it immiserates. From 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.

Dialouge 

Leonardo Vilchis, tenant organizer in the Chicano
neighborhood of Boyle Heights in Los Angeles for more
than 30 years and co-founder of Union de Vecinos and LA
Tenants Union.

Tracy Rosenthal, writer, organizer, and co-founder of the
LA Tenants Union. Their work has been published in the
New Republic, the Nation and the Los Angeles Times.

Gabriela Rendón, Associate Professor of Urban Planning
and Community Development and the Founding Director
of the Parsons Housing Justice Lab at The New School.

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This event has been organized by  The New School for Social Research and Parsons Housing Justice Lab. It is free and open to faculty, staff, students and the general public.