Abolish Rent: A dialouge with the Co-Founders of the largest Tenant Union Details: Monday,November 18th, 2024 6:30 PM – 8:00 PM (EST) Lang Cafe/ Ground Floor Eugene Lang college building 65 W 11th Street, New York, NY — 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, Abolish Rent dissects our housing system from the perspective of those it immiserates. From 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. Dialouge  Leonardo Vilchis, tenant organizer in the Chicano neighborhood of Boyle Heights in Los Angeles for more than 30 years and co-founder of Union de Vecinos and LA Tenants Union. Tracy Rosenthal, writer, organizer, and co-founder of the LA Tenants Union. Their work has been published in the New Republic, the Nation and the Los Angeles Times. Gabriela Rendón, Associate Professor of Urban Planning and Community Development and the Founding Director of the Parsons Housing Justice Lab at The New School. — This event has been organized by  The New School for Social Research and Parsons Housing Justice Lab. It is free and open to faculty, staff, students and the general public.