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ABOLISH RENT: A DIALOGUE WITH CO-FOUNDERS OF THE LARGEST TENANT UNION IN THE NATION<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Monday, November 18, 2024
6:30 to 8:00pm
Lang Caf\u00e9 \/ Eugene Lang Building
65 W 11th Street, New York, NY 10011<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Join activists and authors\u00a0Tracy Rosenthal<\/strong>\u00a0and\u00a0Leonardo Vilchis<\/strong>\u00a0for a discussion of their new book\u00a0Abolish Rent: How Tenants Can End the Housing Crisis.\u00a0<\/a>\u00a0In a conversation convened by Parsons Housing Justice Lab director\u00a0Gabriela Rend\u00f3n<\/strong>, Rosenthal and Vilchis will explore the revolutionary movement we need to make our housing, our cities, and the world our home.

Rent drives millions into debt, despair, and onto the streets. The social cost of rent is too damn high. Written for anyone fed up with the permanent housing crisis, complicit politicians, and real estate greed,\u00a0Abolish Rent\u00a0dissects our housing system from the perspective of those it immiserates.\u00a0From two co-founders of the largest tenants’ union in the country, this deeply reported account of the resurgent tenant movement centers poor and working-class people who are fighting back, staying put, and remaking the city in the process. Authors Tracy Rosenthal and Leonardo Vilchis take us to trilingual strategy meetings, raucous marches against gentrification, and daring eviction defenses where immigrants put their lives on the line.
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Speakers<\/strong>

Leonardo Vilchis<\/strong>\u00a0has been organizing tenants in Boyle Heights for more than 30 years. Trained in liberation theology, he co-founded Union de Vecinos in 1996 to stop the demolition of the Pico Aliso public housing projects, winning the right of return for 250. In 2015, he co-founded the LA Tenants Union to organize tenant power at a citywide scale. Vilchis was activist-in-residence at the UCLA Luskin Institute on Inequality and Democracy in 2020 and now serves on the advisory board of its Housing the Third Reconstruction research endeavor. He lives in Los Angeles.

Tracy Rosenthal\u00a0<\/strong>is a writer and co-founder of the LA Tenants Union. Their work has been published in\u00a0the\u00a0New Republic,\u00a0the\u00a0Nation\u00a0and\u00a0the\u00a0Los Angeles Times. They serve on the advisory board of Housing the Third Reconstruction with UCLA\u2019s Institute on Inequality and Democracy. They are now on rent strike in New York City.
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Gabriela Rend\u00f3n<\/strong>\u00a0is an Associate professor of Urban Planning and Community Development, the co-coordinator of the Graduate Minor in Design and Urban Justice, and the Founding Director of the Parsons Housing Justice Lab at The New School. At the lab, she leads the Housing Justice Oral History Project, combining oral history, critical cartography, community organizing, and advocacy.\u00a0\u00a0

Presented\u00a0by Public Seminar<\/strong><\/a>\u00a0at\u00a0The New School for Social Research<\/strong><\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0Parsons Housing Justice Lab<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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