"LANSING, Mich.—A statewide coalition known as “Rent is Too Damn High” will descend on Michigan State Capitol on Sept. 5 to protest escalating costs of housing in the state. According to the coalition’s press coordinator, Lindsey Barchard, well over 600 people had pledged to join the protest at the capitol by early August.

The Sept. 5 rally will include a DJ, chanting and marching, spoken word poetry, multiple speakers, and an area for people to share their own housing stories. “Our plan for the 5th is to make as much noise as possible,” Bachard said, “to convey to the legislators the sheer volume of Michigan’s residents who are becoming increasingly desperate for change.”

Rents in Michigan have grown rapidly over the past few years as urban gentrification projects have been offered as the main solution for economic woes. According to recent media reports, a typical renter in 2023 must earn an average of $21.65 per hour to afford basic housing in the state.

The state’s minimum wage, however, remains locked in at a paltry $10.10 per hour, and the “tipped” hourly minimum is $3.84. In addition, an anachronistic statewide ban on rent control has also fueled skyrocketing housing costs.

The Rent is Too Damn High rally will “raise awareness and put pressure on lawmakers to take action to address the full-blown housing crisis in our state,” Barchard said."

https://www.peoplesworld.org/article/rent-is-too-damn-high-coalition-calls-sept-5-rally-at-michigan-capitol/

#HousingCrisis #Housing #Rent #RentIsTooDamnHigh #Michigan #RentersRights #HousingIsAHumanRight

Renters evictions up by a third as government stalls on renter reforms https://www.opendemocracy.net/en/no-fault-evictions-renters-reform-bill-repossessions-statistics/ #renters #RentersRights #evictions #housing #homelessness

#Landlords partner with #illegal #Airbnb operators to evict long-term tenants, raise rents and inflate property values. Everyone wins — except people who need a place to live.

https://ricochet.media/en/3975/city-for-sale-airbnb-scam-quadruples-rents-replaces-long-term-tenants-with-ghost-hotels

#Canada #Quebec #Montreal #HousingCrisis #RentersRights #Evictions #RicochetMedia

So wait, let me get this right. Creatures have been roaming the planet for millions of years, thousands of years ago humans come along, and around three hundred years ago capitalism kicks in with its "endless growth" and "endless extraction" bullshit and already the planet is wrecked, there's climate chaos, and we're experiencing our hottest years ever and people are getting burns from touching the fucking pavement, and the capitalist class and their spokespeople in power don't give a shit because they're confident they and theirs will hold out on resources way longer than the rest of us, at the barrel of a gun if they have to, since there'll be enough desperate fools to accept scraps to keep protecting them from us. And in the meantime they'll continue to promote the same old filthy industries and agriculture, de-fund public transit, buy up social media to openly and proudly promote misinformation, and use their state and corporate media hierarchies to ensure ignorance towards the climate emergency like they have the ongoing pandemic, or just keep pushing back already-laughable environmental "targets" while they keep laughing at us, extracting resources and profits, filling their coffers, fucking the planet, and introducing sweeping surveillance and protest bans, to the point where someone like me, even with my privileges, will end up in prison just for existing or for anarchist thought; someone who never did shit to anyone, just dared to engage in (shock!) noncompliance in their wretched little system, doing no harm and taking no shit. Take care of one another! Organise! We can't aid and abet these policymaking mass murderers in sharp suits. We can't lose our humanity. After all, *humanity* never *was* compatible with capitalism. #GlobalWarming #ClimateChange #ClimateCrisis #ClimateEmergency #CapitalismIsADeathCult #Capitalism #anarchism #solidarity #organise #unionise #unions #RentersUnion #RentersRights #TransRights #LGBTQ #RefugeesWelcome #WeAreThe99Percent #ACAB #Abolition #FuckCars #PublicTransit #community #urbanism

Texas bans homeowners’ associations from discriminating against renters who receive federal housing aid

https://www.texastribune.org/2023/07/07/texas-hoas-housing-section-8/

#TexasTribune #TexasHOAs #HousingDiscrimination #RentersRights #FederalHousingAid #Section #Politics #News

London renters protest landlord investment show
https://freedomnews.org.uk/2023/07/05/london-renters-protest-landlord-investment-show/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=london-renters-protest-landlord-investment-show #RentersRights

‘It’s killing her’: Council leaves people with mould, mice and broken toilets
https://www.opendemocracy.net/en/london-council-tenants-unsafe-homes-disabilities-mould-mice-broken-toilet-shower-brent/ #RentersRights #housing

It's an absolute tragedy that this young couple was taken from us too soon. #PrayForTheFamilies #JusticeForLandlords #EndHousingCrisis As we mourn the loss of these innocent lives, it's important to remember the struggles faced by those in the landlord community who are often overlooked. #SupportLandlords #RentersRights #HousingCrisis https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/5d938x/landlord-lobbyist-apologizes-for-insensitive-comment-about-tenant-murder

Think you're on a 'rental blacklist'? Here's how it may have happened, and what to do about it | ABC News #Australia

If you find out you've been listed, you can write to the landlord or agent who listed you and they must provide details of information included in the database. Individuals can also apply to the databases themselves to have any information held about themselves released, often for a small fee (in NSW the information must be released free of charge).

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2023-04-24/rental-blacklists-tenancy-databases-should-you-be-worried/102249222

#Renting
#RentersRights

Hail, to the tenants of Kansas City!
Their courage has been a great victory.
They've gathered and stood
For those needing a good
A home to call their own, the renters will never be forced out meekly!

#kansascity #tenantsrights #eviction #rentersrights #ode #poetry

http://us.cnn.com/videos/us/2023/03/10/kansas-city-tenants-evictions-orig-me-jm.cnn

Housing is a human right, but millions of Americans are unable to afford a decent place to live. We need to invest in affordable housing and protect #rentersrights

How about NO!

#Capitalism #CapitalismKills #capitalismisascam #CapitalismIsACult #landlord #rentersrights #renters

https://youtu.be/iGxPp0MV-cg

Saturday 25th (tomorrow) we’ll be having another #RentersRights info arvo. Brunswick Neighbourhood House, at 2pm.

Free for all, food supplied, learn some renter self defence with the Renters and Housing Union #RAHU

Tag someone in there area who might find this helpful.

Oh solitary struggle of finding a home
In Los Angeles a challenge to roam
Searching for a place
To make a living space
Amid a deepened housing crisis to atone

#housingcrisis #homelessness #losangeles #rentersrights #ode #poetry

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/02/17/us/housing-voucher-search-los-angeles.html

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Action alert
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Share The Cities Organizing Collective is a member of the Stay Housed Stay Healthy Coalition led by TRU and Housing Justice Project and others.

Take Action ASAP and let’s get as many people to sign this as possible.

*Let’s get to 500 signatures by Friday* #Seattle #RentersRights

https://actionnetwork.org/letters/tell-seattle-council-cap-late-fees-at-10-a-month/

Hey pals, this seems like good solid #NZTwits Mastodon content: if you care about renters' rights, and you haven't already checked out the PledgeMe for Rat King Landlord, I absolutely would before it closes.

Bias: I'm a featured artist in the tabloid version.

https://www.pledgeme.co.nz/projects/7441-special-renters-united-illustrated-edition-of-rat-king-landlord

#CreativeToots #MastoArt #NZ #Aotearoa #RentersRights

Great turn out today at the Renters Right info sesh. From repair issues to rent increases to legal recourse we used shared knowledge to help arm renters for a first line of defence. 💪 #RAHU #RentersRights

In other news, I totally propaganda-ed my neighbour for a change of #NSWGovt this #NSWElection with a #RentersRights angle. Then talked him around to accepting my #AnarchistYard of overgrown weeds, because give me one good reason. No? Me neither. I may be fat and slightly broken but I will never not try to radicalise everyone around me in some small way! #SolidarityForever

#Washington residents: Tell your lawmakers to support #rent fairness and end price gouging in #housing
https://rentfairness.org/

I had a landlord who increased our rent by over 50% and everyone had to move out as a result, causing most of us to become homeless! Not only that but she hired two men to evict us illegally. This happens everywhere all the time.

#rentstabilization #rentersrights

For a deeper look at how Covid affected so many people's housing situations, this #Frontline episode tells the stories of the renters and the landlords struggling to survive during this precarious time. Whatever you think is a "reasonable amount of time" for people to begin paying rent, especially with government emergency assistance, think again. Life is just not that simple.

https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/frontline/documentary/facing-eviction/

#EndHomelessness #RentersRights #FairHousing