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Soaring rents are pushing people into poverty and homelessness, while landlords profit, communities are displaced and workers’ pay swallowed by rent hikes.
Tenants are fighting back. In some countries winning rent controls through bold organising and militantancy.
How can the trade union movement and progressive politicians support tenant struggle? Let’s learn from global victories and setbacks to step up the fight to winning rent controls.
Siobhan is a member of London Renters Union and is the former coordinator of Greater Manchester Housing Action.
Sindicat de LLogateres is a tenants union created in 2018 in Catalunya that fights for the right of tenants and to prevent evictions and abuse from landlords.
Eilidh is a writer and housing organiser based in Glasgow
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