Teaching renters their rights: Advocates share lessons on organizing for change
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Tenants in disputes with landlords, ranging from a lack of heat to rodent infestation, often aren’t aware of their rights, many housing advocates say. To raise awareness, several nonprofits hosted a teach-in February 9.

[Casey] Miozzi said one of the most valuable lessons he’s learned about organizing, from both the tenants’ union, as well as being a member of DSA is to do it from “the bottom up.”

“Organizing in apartment complexes that we live in, and not going into other complexes, and organizing on behalf of other people. We want to share the risk we’re asking the tenants to take, and doing it from the inside, rather than being an outside organization is very important,” Miozzi said.

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