Leonardo Vilchis

1 month ago | publicseminar.org | Gabriela Rendón |Tracy Rosenthal |Leonardo Vilchis |Evangeline Riddiford Graham

Mariachi Plaza in Boyle Heights, Los Angeles (2017) | Creative CommonsHow do we remake our cities for the people who actually live in them? Tracy Rosenthal and Leonardo Vilchis, two cofounders of the largest tenants’ union in the country, propose an answer in their new book, Abolish Rent: How Tenants Can End the Housing Crisis (Haymarket, 2024).

1 month ago | publicseminar.org | Tracy Rosenthal |Leonardo Vilchis |Premilla Nadasen |Thom Hartmann

Cover image of Abolish Rent by Tracy Rosenthal and Leonardo Vilchis (Haymarket Books, 2024)Every first of the month, we hand over a share of our wages to meet our human need for housing. Our rents rise faster than our incomes, and inequality grows. Every first of the month, more tenants go without food, medication, and basic necessities to pay this tribute. More people take up residence with family, in cars, and in tents outdoors.

Jan 7, 2025 | ssir.org | Tracy Rosenthal |Leonardo Vilchis

Abolish Rent: How Tenants Can End the Housing Crisis Tracy Rosenthal & Leonardo Vilchis 224 pages, Haymarket Books, 2024 Buy the book » More than 650,000 people across the country are unsheltered every night, not including those surfing on couches, surviving in cars, or barely teetering on the brink.

Dec 23, 2024 | inthesetimes.com | Tracy Rosenthal |Leonardo Vilchis

The following is excerpted from Abolish Rent: How Tenants Can End the Housing Crisis by Tracy Rosenthal and Leonardo Vilchis, published by Haymarket Books. The first LA Tenants Union meeting was a ​“renter’s rights workshop.” Soon, we realized, all three parts of that framework had to go. “Renter,” because we had to broaden our understanding of the populations who live in antagonism to rent, including people who live outside.

Nov 7, 2024 | centerforfiction.org | Tracy Rosenthal |Leonardo Vilchis

Skip to Content Register Clear Thursday, 7:00 pm EST - 8:30 pm EST November 14, 2024 The Center for Fiction & Livestreamed In the final event of this fall’s four-part series on housing, land, and the policies that shape our country, we turn from land ownership to the precarity renters face amid an ongoing housing crisis. We’re proud to welcome writers and organizers Leonardo Vilchis, Tara Raghuveer, and Esteban Girón for a panel discussion led by Tracy Rosenthal. Rosenthal and Vilchis are the...