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Today in Labor History July 4, 1840: The anti-rent association of Berne in the Hudson Valley issued its Declaration of Independence, starting the Anti-Rent War, which lasted until August 1845. Also known as the Helderberg War, the anti-rent war was a tenants' revolt in upstate New York against the patroons, who acted as feudal lords with the right to make laws. The first meeting of the Anti-Rent tenant farmers was held in Berne, New York on July 4, 1839. Leaders of the revolt were tried for riot, conspiracy and robbery in 1845. The first trial resulted in no convictions. A re-trial in September 1845 saw a fist-fight between the attorneys who were sentenced to solitary confinement for 24 hours. One defendant, Smith A. Boughton, was sentenced to life imprisonment, but was pardoned by the pro-Anti-Renter John Young.

Potentially of interest to anyone in Western Sydney who's renting.

Western Sydney Community Legal Centre is hosting a free one-hour info session on tenant rights. It will cover topics such as lease agreements, bond security, maintenance obligations, and dispute resolution.

5 August, 11.30am at Phive in Parramatta. Register here if you're interested: https://parramatta-events.bookable.net.au/#!/event-detail/Tenant-Rights-Parramatta #auspol #nswpol #renting #tenancy #tenants #housing

parramatta-events.bookable.net.auBookable

@RAHU

(Note: #Publichousing is owned & managed by the state government, rent is cheapest /lower % of income … whereas community housing is managed & owned, by “not-for-profit” organisations which charge higher % of income thus higher rents.)

abc.net.au/news/2025-05-19/soc

#housingCrisis #landlords #rent
#Publichousing #tenants

ABC News · Data suggests few tenants return to Victoria’s redeveloped social housing estatesBy Jesse Thompson

In the current climate, everywhere, union membership is more important than ever.

  • Join your local tenants' union
  • Join your workplace union (if you don't have a unionised workplace, join a general workers union as they will still be able to support you)
  • Join your local credit union

#fedilaw #ontario #legal #tenants <acknowledging: legal advice on the internet does not form attorney-client relationship>

Tenant moves out. Occupant (common law partner) remains and continues to pay rent and upkeep for 3+ yrs. Landlord _knew_ this, failed to provide form N14 - Landlord’s Notice to the Spouse of the Tenant who Vacated the Rental Unit within the required 45 days. Occupant is correctly considered tenant under the RTA, yes? if I read RTA section 100(2) correctly.

> “I think the best way to combat corporate #landlords is to make their model less profitable,” Nagy said. She said stronger tenant protections and rent stabilization laws are ways to achieve that. #Tenants may also withhold #rent when repairs aren’t being made. And more tenants are speaking directly to pension funds or universities that pool their money into hedge funds and real estate investment trusts to get a profit.

vice.com/en/article/people-are

VICE · People Are Organizing to Fight the Private Equity Firms Who Own Their HomesBy Roshan Abraham

Here's my latest essay, this one on a specific type of urban slavery practiced in the United States in which enslaved people were allowed to live apart from their enslavers, find their own employment, pay their owners an agreed-on sum, and keep the rest for themselves. My argument is that modern-day tenants bear in essence the same relationship to their landlords.

#Landlords #Slavery #UrbanSlavery #Tenants #ResidentialRentalMarket #HiringOut #Capitalism #Anarchism

chez-risk.in/2024/09/25/from-s

chez-risk.inFrom Slaveowner to LandlordThe natural evolution of a specific form of urban American slavery

inthesetimes.com/article/natio

A #National #Tenants #Union Has Arrived
Local tenants unions are officially teaming up, to the terror of big #landlords.
Rebecca Burns August 6, 2024

..."It’s ​“not a given” that tenants will prevail, says Tara Raghuveer, the tenant federation’s director and the founder and director of KC Tenants. ​“But tenants are transforming rent hikes, moldy bathrooms and eviction nightmares into power, and tenants are starting to win.”...

In These TimesA National Tenants Union Has ArrivedLocal tenants unions are officially teaming up, to the terror of big landlords.

The US is failing #renters during extreme #heatwaves

"Despite the growing toll, there’s shockingly little regulation around protecting people from the effects of heat. It’s a stark contrast to how policies treat the extreme cold.

In addition to strengthening requirements for air conditioning and other cooling systems, advocates say it’s important that such policies account for the costs that would accompany these changes, so they aren’t simply passed on to #tenants."

vox.com/climate/360019/climate

Vox · The US is failing renters during extreme heat wavesBy Li Zhou

' “I was trying to help a tenant recently, and their landlord is an LLC that’s registered to a different LLC, and that is registered to a different LLC, which traces back to a company in Kansas City, whose whole purpose is to sign the building documents so you’re an untraceable owner,” said Gallagher. “And then those folks will claim they’re a small landlord to get certain kinds of government assistance.” '

#landlords #tenants #fraud #LimitedLiabilityCompanies

theguardian.com/us-news/2023/n

The Guardian · Hidden landlords: renters’ woes soar as property owners hide their identitiesBy Guardian staff reporter