Reading and Watching Recs for the Tenant-Power-Curious

Tenant fights have become a mainstay in the political landscape. This week, we covered the latest two battles in the Bay. Most recently, a fire ripped through non-profit housing after landlord negligence, and now tenants are facing homelessness — an irony since the non-profit Adobe Services bills itself as a premier provider of housing for the formally homeless. Yet, despite it all, tenants have dared to fight back and demand their due. We also did a deep dive into how elderly, mostly monolingual Chinese tenants organized with their local tenant union, built power, and won, against all odds.