10 Housing Organizing for the Long Haul
THE STORY OF HOUSING organizing in the nation’s lower-income communities is mainly a story of local community struggles—rent strikes, fights against encroaching highways, hospitals and universities, campaigns to build tenant organizations and many other battles—that are hardly known except to those directly involved. There has been no Joe Hill to spread songs of housing struggle across the nation, no Taylor Branch or Rachel Carson to summarize housing organizing’s grand themes in a best-selling book, no glossy magazine likeMs.orEbonyto validate the grassroots experiences of housing organizers. Housing organizing has been the arena for the hopes
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