Nashville housing justice group, focused on organizing neighbors to build strength and fight for tenant rights a @midtndsa working group insta: @nashvillerdc
Hey Nashville - we are a group of dedicated renters who believe we deserve more. Help us now by voting on a name for our tenant union! https://t.co/X4nlujcWLc
Have you ever had to navigate critical social services to meet your needs, whether that be for food or to supplement your rent? How would you describe the experience? Were you treated with respect?
#NashTenantUnion
When is the last time your overheard your neighbor complaining about the property management? What was the situation and how could we address these issues, despite mgmt?
#NashTenantUnion
You sign a lease and are expected to meet your end of the agreement, through threat of state violence.
Who holds your landlord accountable for their responsibilities??
#NashTenantUnion
https://t.co/MDjY6Fy6SV
hey. benj here. our cadre wanted to ask some questions through this holiday. feel free to engage #NashTenantUnion
How much of YOUR monthly income goes to rent?
Holidays can bring plenty of time on the phone as the fam is busy in the kitchen or watching a big game (or dog show).
We are giving away our twitter to friends who are working to form Nashville’s tenant union. Consider this their platform for a day.
https://t.co/MDjY6Fy6SV
A small cadre of comrades are working outside of the Red Door Collective working group - in efforts to establish YOUR city-wide Tenants Union. Please help them in choosing a name: https://t.co/MDjY6Fxz3n
A private company will quit managing two large public housing complexes following consistent complaints from residents, led by the @LouTenantsUnion.
https://t.co/N5B8LCNElz
An experience of the Nashville landlord bailout program:
- Go and file this (mostly inaccessible) form (providing all your information)
- Wait
- Go to court and beg a judge
- Wait
- Go to another court to wait for LL to get paid
- Do better in 3 months
- Don't come back
Landlords complain about emergency tenant protections being "theft" when actually their cash balances grew during the pandemic. They also complain about houseless folks at the same time they are putting people on the streets with evictions
https://t.co/CDA6vgnNDg
Landlords complain about emergency tenant protections being "theft" when actually their cash balances grew during the pandemic. They also complain about houseless folks at the same time they are putting people on the streets with evictions
https://t.co/CDA6vgnNDg
🔍 READ THIS 🔍These 6 corporate landlords play a much bigger role in our nation’s housing crisis than most people realize...
As rents soar & the housing crisis worsens, too many corporate landlords are putting profits over people 🧵
TLDR: Shawdaye was among the residents that left RiverChase in fear of the May 30th deadline and without permanent housing. She has been sleeping between the Rescue Mission and friend’s couches for 3 months, referred there by Salvation Army. https://t.co/A2PKVAOqZf
This is exactly what we know and will continue to see. Your state dictators want you to lose everything -> go homeless -> be incarcerated to extract your labor, or die.
For what? The continued transfer of wealth to those who already have.
RJ was told his rent was going from about $1,000 a month to more than $1,900 a month: A 90 percent increase, giving him about 45 days to decide what to do.
Metro law requires landlords to give 90 days advance notice for rent increases.
Happens every day. https://t.co/y0BvPhyq8H