Book Launch: Abolish Rent: How Tenants Can End The Housing Crisis

Privileging economists, planners, and politicians, the conversation around the global housing crisis often misses a key protagonist: tenants themselves. The LA Tenants Union is the largest dues-funded tenant union in the US. With Abolish Rent: How Tenants Can End the Housing Crisis (published by Haymarket Books), its co-founders of reflect on seven years of the struggle for home in a rented world. How can tenants build power to fight back against landlords and real estate speculators and win the housing we deserve?

This book launch and panel discussion will feature Tracy Rosenthal (book author and LA Tenants Union co-founder), alongside Damian Dempsey (PhD, Scottish housing policy), Ruth Gilbert (trade union organiser), Neil Gray (writer/researcher) and Rosie Hampton (researcher/campaigner).