Autonomous Tenants Union is an all-volunteer organization committed to organizing for housing justice from below and to the left. As an independent collective based in Chicago, we strategize together to defend and enforce our right to dignified housing. We believe that housing is a human right, not a commodity! We fight for an end to all evictions, and for community control of housing through the building of popular power.
Chicago Tenants Movement (CTM) is a coalition of North, West, and South Side community organizations. Evictions are immoral. Community stops evictions.
We’re outside 3746 W Leland, where the Leland Autonomous Tenants Union is holding a press conference to demand that their landlords Brian and Jackie McFadden stop the eviction and negotiate with them.
“Guavas don’t grow in the US. They aren’t from here, and neither are we, but we are trying to thrive.”
Hundreds of evictions are still being filed in Chicago. These are the people who are responsible.
No matter what excuses our elected leaders make, Chicagoans won’t be able to pay their rent next week.
New law is a necessary step toward protecting our undocumented neighbors, but lack of Good Cause Eviction and Tenant Right to Counsel laws will undermine enforcement.
Mell lashes out at the grassroots housing movement she had previously been content to ignore.
Media and government reliance on landlord and developer expertise for “affordable housing” issues skews the framing of the conversation so far in their favor that they can claim to be champions of affordability without offering a single unit within the reach of the poor and working classes.
“53 homes. Imagine them lined up as houses on the street. You’re basically moving a whole city block out of the neighborhood.”
