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Join DSA LA’s Housing and Homelessness Committee for the next session of our Abolish Rent reading group, where we read this recently-published book about tenant organizing and the Los Angeles Tenants Union (LATU), by Tracy Rosenthal and Leonardo Vilchis. As socialists, we support working class organizing in all its forms, whether that be at our workplaces, in our communities, or in our homes, and we're reading Abolish Rent to deepen our understanding of what that struggle on the terrain of housing and land use looks like. As we recover from the wildfires and suddenly find ourselves in a moment of rapid rent increases, price-gouging landlords, and increased homelessness and displacement of tenants, this book is more relevant than ever.

For this session, we will be reading Chapters 2 & 3 (pages 34 to 80). While we hope everyone reads this book, people who haven't completed the reading for this section are encouraged to attend and participate. This group is open to anyone who is interested in discussing this book and tenant organizing in general, and is a good way to learn more about DSA LA's Power to the Tenants Campaign and to hear more about the socialist vision for dignified and decommodified housing.

If you still need to buy a copy of the book, you can buy a discounted copy through this link, but please let us know if you're short on funds right now and can't afford it!

More about the book:

Tracy Rosenthal and Leonardo Vilchis are two of the cofounders of the Los Angeles Tenants Union (LATU) -  the largest tenant union in the country. In the decade since it was founded in 2015, LATU has worked with thousands of tenants across the city, to prevent displacement, end harassment, and force corrupt and incompetent city officials to act in tenants’ favor. Abolish Rent is a result of that experience, laying out the tactics and political orientations that LATU has developed over decade of tenant organizing, community building, and struggle against landlords, developers, and the political system that empowers them.