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Sep 23, 2024 | 
thebaffler.com | Oksana Mironova
Tracy Rosenthal and Leonardo Vilchis are the cofounders of the Los Angeles Tenants Union (LATU), a multilingual formation organizing across the vast sprawl of the city. Situated in multiple organizing histories, LATU organizes to build tenant power and to prefigure a housing system not built on a foundation of extractive and carceral relationships with landlords or the state.
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Sep 10, 2024 | 
metropolitics.org | Oksana Mironova |Samuel Stein
A few years ago, the New York tenant movement forced the state government to strengthen and expand its rent regulation system. This was the greatest expansion of renters’ rights New York had seen in decades. In the years since, the movement has grown increasingly emboldened. But the state has grown increasingly intransigent, seemingly frozen in its tracks.
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May 14, 2024 | 
thebaffler.com | Oksana Mironova
In late March, President Biden was at a local community center in Las Vegas, Nevada, touting his housing plan as the most “consequential” in the last fifty years. Las Vegas—a city in a battleground state that was first decimated by the subprime mortgage crisis and is now inundated by corporate landlords and evictions—is a good place to pitch a big federal housing plan.
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Feb 26, 2024 | 
popularresistance.org | Oksana Mironova
Above photo: New York City tenant organizers at a protest. Find more at the Interference Archive. Oksana Mironova reports on the present state of the rent control struggle across the U.S.A historic revival in tenant organizing has resurrected the policy nationwide—with capital resisting to the fullest extent at every turn. In April 2015, the Pacific Standard (RIP to yet another quality outlet shuttered) published a defense of rent control—with an opening salvo declaring it dead.
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Feb 26, 2024 | 
znetwork.org | Oksana Mironova
In April 2015, the Pacific Standard (RIP to yet another quality outlet shuttered) published a defense of rent control—with an opening salvo declaring it dead. New York tenant organizers would go on to win small, highly technical improvements to their rent regulation system a little later that year, but in the broad strokes, the Standard’s appraisal at the time wasn’t wrong.
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Feb 26, 2024 | 
portside.org | Oksana Mironova
The National Fight for Rent Control Published February 25, 2024 In April 2015, the Pacific Standard (RIP to yet another quality outlet shuttered) published a defense of rent control—with an opening salvo declaring it dead. New York tenant organizers would go on to win small, highly technical improvements to their rent regulation system a little later that year, but in the broad strokes, the Standard’s appraisal at the time wasn’t wrong.
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Jan 8, 2024 | 
thebaffler.com | Adrian West |Jasper Craven |Oksana Mironova
Steroids are in. I’ve always thought I’d get around to trying some, but I never feel ready, and since my dad’s one of the likely millions of American men on testosterone replacement therapy (TRT) but is also prone to umbilical hernias, falling off ladders, and other hindrances to a consistent diet and workout plan, I’ve seen their effects on a more or less sedentary subject: not bad but still short of my “Stone Cold” Steve Austin-inspired dreams.
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Jul 18, 2023 | 
jewishcurrents.org | Ben Nadler |Oksana Mironova
The tan cardstock handbill announces an upcoming event, to be held on November 2nd, 1919: Appearing in Brooklyn for the first time, the Ukrainian Workers Theater will perform a night of drama and music. The event description is printed in Ukrainian, but the vocabulary is simple enough to be deciphered 100 years later by O., a native Russian speaker who grew up with the Odessa-influenced vernacular of southern Brooklyn.
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Jun 27, 2023 | 
gothamgazette.com | Oksana Mironova |Samuel Stein
The Rent Guidelines Board in action (photo: William Alatriste/NYC Council Media Unit)
Last week, the New York City Rent Guidelines Board raised rents by 3% for one-year leases and roughly 4.5% for two-year leases for 1 million rent-stabilized apartments. Meanwhile, the Nassau County, Westchester County, Rockland County, and Kingston Rent Guidelines Boards approved either rent freezes or much smaller increases. What gives?
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May 30, 2023 | 
publicbooks.org | Oksana Mironova
While a lot of virtual ink has been spilled about YIMBYs (Yes In My Back Yard, a professional-class, market-oriented movement for increasing housing supply), cultural sociologist Max Holleran’s Yes to the City: Millennials and the Fight for Affordable Housing is one of the first considered, book-length accounts of this self-identified movement.
