tenants rights
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What Advocacy Can Do for You
Advocacy is about changing the world for the better – but it can change you for the better, too. Take it from Deanna Nagle, a tenant advocate and NLIHC member. In a recent blog post, Deanna recounts her experience at a city council budget meeting. When first asked by a local housing group to make Continue reading
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Leading from “The Gut”: A Tenant Testimony
By: Deanna Nagle If I had a nickel for every time advocacy groups (that I needed help from) encouraged me to “show up” or “speak up and make my voice heard” at one event or another, I’d have had enough silver coins to roll up and pay market rent for a year. No lie. So Continue reading
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Tenant Organizing and Advocacy Efforts
In our last blog post, tenant organizer Linda Soderstrom explained how she and 36 other tenants at her Minnesota housing complex fought back against an attempt by a new owner to evict tenants who were recipients of Section 8 vouchers. Soderstrom writes that her tenant group “stood up for the 2,500 of us and alleged Continue reading
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Protecting Renters from Foreclosure- Permanently.
The housing market is sending decidedly mixed signals to Americans: On the one hand, increases in new home construction are suggesting to analysts that the housing slump might finally be over, which could mean positive economic impacts outside of the housing construction sector. On the other hand, banks are sending increasing numbers of homes into Continue reading
On the Home Front 