Housing Working Group
The Housing Justice Project, CT DSA’s housing working group, organizes to build a socialist understanding of housing and sees tenant struggle as essential in the fight to build socialism. We work to build working-class power through tenant organizing that improves conditions in our housing, decreases rents, and helps us move towards the socialist horizon of guaranteed housing for all and a world without landlords.
Housing liberation means ending the commodification of housing under capitalism, ensuring democratically controlled, decarbonized, decommodified, abolitionist housing for everyone, and decoupling housing from the violent forces of racism, policing, displacement, and extraction.
The Communist Horizon of Social Housing
End of Session Statement on Housing Legislation from CT Tenants Union and CT DSA
Connecticut tenants face a housing emergency. Already high rents have skyrocketed since 2020. Buildings in both the cities and suburbs are deteriorating under the management of negligent landlords speculating on our homes, posing health risks to adults and children. Evictions and homelessness are on the rise. Our rental vacancy rate…
Connecticut DSA’s Housing Agenda at the Statehouse
INSIGHT: Tenant Chemistry
INSIGHT: Tenant Chemistry With unorthodox advocacy and organizing tools, the Connecticut Tenants Union is paving the way for a national movement to shift the power balance of American housing. But can they build the community necessary to succeed? From Yale Daily News TYLER JAGER 12:42 PM, OCT 31, 2022 In late August,…
This victory for tenants in Connecticut is not the first, and it will not be the last!
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Connecticut Tenants Unions – the legal path
[et_pb_section fb_built=”1″ admin_label=”section” _builder_version=”4.16″ global_colors_info=”{}”][et_pb_row admin_label=”row” _builder_version=”4.16″ background_size=”initial” background_position=”top_left” background_repeat=”repeat” global_colors_info=”{}”][et_pb_column type=”4_4″ _builder_version=”4.16″ custom_padding=”|||” global_colors_info=”{}” custom_padding__hover=”|||”][et_pb_text admin_label=”Text” _builder_version=”4.19.4″ header_3_font=”||||||||” background_size=”initial” background_position=”top_left” background_repeat=”repeat” global_colors_info=”{}”]CONNECTICUT TENANTS UNIONS – THE LEGAL PATH Unlike the long legal history of labor unions in this country, tenant unions are relatively underdeveloped and underutilized. For a state…