Crown Heights Tenant Union is building tenant power to end the cycle of displacement and rent overcharges. Building by building. Block by block.
Crown Heights, Brooklyn, NY
Joined June 2014
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Coming to you LIVE from the RGB Preliminary Hearing where there are still hundreds of folks outside and still plenty of space inside! #RentRollback #RGB #TheRentIsTooDamnHigh
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The problem of NYC DSA leaders defending sweeps is not separate from support for demolishing NYCHA homes.
NYC DSA has moved substantially right on housing as a result of yimby entryism since 2022.
The only fix is growing NYC-DSA’s relationship w/ NYC’s tenant movement.
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Read Ben Rosenfield and @comradejumpshot challenging technocratic Abundance-style solutions to New York's housing crisis and arguing for a rank-and-file tenants' movement.
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immmm sorry i didnt know i ordered yimby market fundamentalism with my municipal socialism
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Airbnb’s billions have nothing on the organizing power of @CUFFH, @KirstenJohnFoy, @tenantspacny, @chtenantunion, @InsideAirbnb, @LegalAidNYC, @MaketheRoadNY, @CSSNYorg, @nycCoRe, @Met_Council, @AstoriaTenants, @CarrollGardensA, @HousingConCoord, @HOPE_organizers, @IMPACCTBrooklyn, and more.
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Thank you to the @NYCCouncil for rejecting Intro 948B, a bill that would have taken housing and job opportunities away from New Yorkers. Tenants, homeowners, and workers deserve real solutions on affordability, but converting homes into tourist rentals hurts everyone.
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Congratulations Esteban Girón @gaytheologian!
Tonight, Esteban was awarded the Jane Wood Award for his tireless tenant advocacy with @CHTenantUnion. If you’re a tenant in Brooklyn, there’s 100% chance Esteban’s work has impacted your life…even if you didn’t know it.🎉🙌🏾🎊
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one of the last people you should listen to about what is good for Black and Brown people is an Airbnb executive who used to be an exec at Amazon. You'd be hard pressed to find two firms as dedicated to exploiting & immiserating Black and Brown people as Amazon & Airbnb are.
“New York City’s ban on short-term rentals is inadvertently pushing Black and Latino homeowners towards financial hardship. The City Council must fix it.” More from @EricHolder on how Local Law 18 is squeezing Black and Brown homeowners in NYC:
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Katie Halper Show Tues 7pm ET: @ButchWare on running for governor & @ZohranKMamdani "playing footsie w/ fascists." CH Tenant Union @chtenantunion's Esteban Girón @gaytheologian on Zohran's picks. @mostmoralpod's @mattlieb & @DanielBMate on Sarah Hurwitz youtube.com/live/v9I5wKTBBFQ
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I am proud to stand with union workers and tenants in the fight against Intro 948 & 1107, which will make our city less affordable and displace vulnerable communities. New York’s housing laws are not for sale, no matter how much a wealthy corporation spends.
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Airbnb is pushing two eleventh hour bills to take our homes so they can profit. Tell @NYCCouncil to stand with New Yorkers and reject these dangerous bills now!
Register to testify here: council.nyc.gov/testify/
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A broken window transformed Michael McKee into a professional organizer and lobbyist to regulate rents and restrain landlords in New York. nyti.ms/3WX3YMK
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YIMBYism as an organised ideology is anti-socialist. Building more housing and restructuring our urban environments aren't the exclusive domain of YIMBYism, and in fact has a far longer history in our movement than in one magicked up by rich San Franciscans a decade ago.
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Call me old fashioned but I think if your socialist org is joining the real estate lobby in their fight against the Crown Heights Tenant Union it’s time for some criticism/self criticism.
Our battle should not be with low income renters.
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Today a giant died: @tenantspacny Treasurer Michael McKee was integral to more than 50 yrs of fights that kept millions who will never know his name in their homes. Here is the indominable figure getting arrested during the 2015 rent fights & taking a bow:
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Residents of 1042 Union Street in Crown Heights and their allies rallied outside their building Weds night to demand that Pinnacle Group pay its ConEd bills and restore electricity to the building. Pinnacle is th cthe largest landlords in the city. Photos: Roman Broszkowski
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‼️Message to Airbnb: @NYCCouncil Intro 1107 may help your bottom line, but it will endanger access to rental housing for thousands.
Airbnb’s co-founder jumped at the chance to join #DOGE, so I wouldn’t count on them to now stand up for hardworking NYers.
#TenantsNotTourists
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So pleased to be a part of this esteemed panel, moderated by @SandyforCouncil talking about housing and worker rights tonight ❤️
Thank you so much @whitney_hu and @CHTenantUnion for organizing!
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“New Yorkers know that Airbnb is lying about Local Law 18 — and that their plan would only exacerbate the very issues the company claims to care about. Airbnb is one of the richest corporations in the world, desperate to protect its profits.”
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