Homeowner ends up in jail after calling police to remove squatter living inside her house

A homeowner found herself behind bars after attempting to reclaim her home from an alleged squatter.

WPEC

> “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.

https://www.vice.com/en/article/people-are-organizing-to-fight-the-private-equity-firms-who-own-their-homes/

#rentIsTheft #rentIsExtortion #landlord

People Are Organizing to Fight the Private Equity Firms Who Own Their Homes

How tenant unions are taking back power from their megalandlords.

VICE

> a coalition headed by DSA and the Renters Action Network launched a proposal for a Renters Bill of Rights—a set of nine policy proposals designed to protect renters and boost their political power.

https://www.portlandmercury.com/news/2024/08/06/47343221/advocates-say-portland-is-overdue-for-a-tenant-bill-of-rights

#rentIsExtortion #rentersRights #dsa #socialists #landlord #renting #rental #rentIsTheft #portland #pdx

Advocates say Portland is Overdue for a Tenant Bill of Rights

Over the last 10 months, following the overwhelming defeat of a ballot measure that sought to secure universal eviction representation in Portland in 2023, a group of door knockers from the Portland chapter of the Democratic Socialists of America (DSA) resumed their canvassing efforts. They weren’t organizing around a campaign. Instead, they were simply trying to connect with renters in lower-income, often overlooked areas of the city like East Portland to figure out what their...

Portland Mercury

Wie Kapitalismus die Freiheit einschränkt: Umziehen innerhalb einer Stadt oder in eine andere ist im sog. Deutschland UNMÖGLICH, seitdem der Mietwucher von den Herrschenden als Machtinstrument entdeckt wurde, auch im Hinblick auf damit einhergehende Entsolidarisierung innerhalb der Bevölkerung. Da können sich die Dreckspolitiker mit ihrem anmaßenden Freizügigkeitsgesetz den Allerwertesten abwischen. Ohne Lottogewinn kein Umzug, das ist die Realität 💣💥

#RentIsTheft
#ALAB

"I refuse to give a single penny of my hard earned money to people receiving government aid. They're probably milking the system and just too lazy to get a job."

- #people who would gladly give $1,500 every month to a rich #person who already owns five houses

#rentistheft #landlordsareparasites #bigots #hypocrites #eattherich #classwar