What is *Abolish Rent* by Tracy Rosenthal about?

*Abolish Rent* exposes systemic injustices in the U.S. housing crisis, arguing that rent fuels inequality by prioritizing landlord profits over tenant welfare. Through historical analysis and grassroots tenant stories, it advocates for collective organizing to dismantle exploitative rental systems and reimagine housing as a communal right rather than a commodity.

Who should read *Abolish Rent*?

This book is essential for renters, housing activists, policymakers, and social justice advocates seeking actionable insights into tenant empowerment. It resonates with anyone impacted by rising rents, evictions, or urban gentrification, offering a roadmap for building tenant unions and challenging real estate monopolies.

Is *Abolish Rent* worth reading?

Yes—it combines sharp critique with inspiring examples of tenant victories, though some reviewers note it lacks detailed policy blueprints. Its strengths lie in vivid storytelling and clear-eyed analysis of housing exploitation, making it a rallying cry for urgent reform.

What are the main ideas in *Abolish Rent*?

- **Rent as exploitation**: Landlords profit from hoarding housing, forcing tenants into financial precarity. - **Historical roots**: Decades of policy decisions deepened racial and economic disparities in housing. - **Collective action**: Tenants can resist evictions, demand rent controls, and build power through unions.

How does *Abolish Rent* suggest tenants organize?

The authors emphasize forming tenant unions to stage eviction defenses, rent strikes, and citywide campaigns. Case studies highlight successes in Los Angeles, where organized tenants secured code enforcement and rent freezes by uniting across neighborhoods.

What is Tracy Rosenthal and Leonardo Vilchis’s background?

Both co-founded the Los Angeles Tenants Union, a grassroots organization combating evictions and gentrification. Their firsthand experience in tenant activism informs the book’s practical strategies and ideological framework.

What does the “social cost of rent” mean in the book?

The phrase condemns rent’s societal harm: homelessness, debt, and mental health crises caused by unaffordable housing. The authors argue that profit-driven landlording drains communities’ resources and stability.

How does *Abolish Rent* compare to *Evicted* by Matthew Desmond?

While *Evicted* documents individual eviction stories, *Abolish Rent* focuses on systemic change through collective resistance. Rosenthal and Vilchis prioritize solutions over lamenting crises, urging readers to join tenant movements rather than solely empathize with victims.

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Capitolo 1

The Rent System's Broken Promise: A Human Right Denied

The housing crisis in America isn't a crisis at all-it's a system working exactly as designed. "Abolish Rent" has become a rallying cry for millions facing displacement, with celebrities from Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez to Michael B. Jordan championing housing justice movements. This revolutionary text by Tracy Rosenthal and Leonardo Vilchis doesn't just diagnose our housing illness-it offers a radical prescription through the lens of tenant organizing. What if the problem isn't just unaffordable housing but the very concept of rent itself? What if the solution isn't more development but collective power? As homelessness reaches unprecedented levels and rents consume ever-larger portions of wages, this book asks us to imagine something many consider unthinkable: a world where housing is truly a human right, not a commodity. Through the stories of tenants fighting back against a system rigged against them, we glimpse what might replace our current housing nightmare.

Capitolo 2

Rent: A Power Relation, Not Just Economics

Every month, over 100 million Americans surrender their wages to meet a basic human need: shelter. This isn't simply a market transaction-it's a power relation built on exploitation and domination. Landlords control both wealth extraction and physical coercion, empowered to take money and call on law enforcement if tenants can't pay. The system privatizes a common resource (land), hoards a human need (housing), and maintains a captive market of tenants who have no choice but to participate. Rent functions as a fine for having human needs. Without property ownership, people must pay rent from the moment they leave their parents' care, with no choice about whether to pay or how much. In unregulated markets, landlords have complete price-setting power, which explains why rents have doubled over two decades while wages have stagnated. This arrangement exposes a fundamental contradiction: tenants benefit from durable, well-maintained, accessible, and affordable housing that provides stability and safety. Landlords benefit from cheaply produced, rarely maintained, scarce, and expensive housing that maximizes profit. This contradiction manifests in the deplorable conditions many tenants endure-mold, pests, contamination, and structural problems-as landlords perform minimal "band-aid" repairs while collecting maximum rents. The average landlord spends less than four hours monthly maintaining a property while earning $25,000 monthly-passive income actively stolen from workers. Tenants see none of the appreciation in property values while paying not just maintenance costs but also the landlord's mortgage, insurance, taxes, and profit margin. Industry standards encourage landlords to charge double their monthly expenses, trapping tenants in a cycle where homeownership becomes increasingly unattainable as landlords leverage their existing properties to acquire more. Rent prevents proper self-care, forcing families into overcrowded conditions, keeping people in violent relationships, causing food insecurity, and creating unmet medical needs. With the threat of homelessness and eviction behind every rent check, landlords exercise "complete control" over tenants, who accept harsh leases and degrading conditions. Evictions have nearly doubled since 2000, with Black tenants evicted at twice the rate of white tenants. The housing market doesn't produce homes but investment opportunities. With residential real estate worth $258.5 trillion in the US alone-more valuable than all global equities and debt securities combined-housing has become a global investment vehicle rather than a basic need. This creates the contradiction of empty luxury developments standing near homeless encampments, as developers strategically manipulate supply to maintain scarcity and high prices. Ultimately, rent kills. Rising rents directly increase homelessness, with a $100 increase in median rent causing a 9% rise in homelessness. Black Americans, 13% of the population, represent 37% of those sleeping outdoors. Criminalization of homelessness effectively makes it illegal not to pay rent. High rent burdens and evictions dramatically increase mortality rates, with eviction judgments doubling the likelihood of death within twenty years, while unhoused people have a life expectancy of just 48 years-30 years shorter than average.

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Capitolo 3

A Century of Housing Policy Warfare Against Tenants

The war on tenants has systematically rigged the American housing system to benefit homeowners, landlords, and real estate speculators at the expense of tenants' human needs. This didn't happen by accident-it was engineered through decades of deliberate policy choices. The assault began in earnest during the Great Depression, when President Herbert Hoover privileged homeownership as the foundation of "a solid economic and social system" while neglecting tenants entirely. Despite widespread foreclosures and homelessness, Hoover's response was to create federal subsidies for home loans that only benefited would-be homeowners. Roosevelt's New Deal cemented a bifurcated housing system with enduring entitlements for homeowners and stigmatized, vulnerable support for tenants. The government created new financial tools like the thirty-year mortgage and loan guarantees for homeowners while systematically excluding tenants from these privileges. Race was central to this exclusion. The real estate industry's Code of Ethics (1924-1974) explicitly prohibited realtors from introducing "members of any race" whose presence would be "detrimental to property values." The government standardized an appraisal system that ranked neighborhoods by racial composition, with white areas receiving the highest values. Techniques like restrictive deeds, redlining, and exclusionary zoning barred people of color from homeownership and confined them to substandard rental housing. While the New Deal created the first federal public housing, the real estate industry successfully attacked these projects, framing them as communist threats. They secured caps on per-unit investment, restricted eligibility to only the poorest residents, and empowered local governments to veto projects or segregate them to undesirable areas. These policies ensured public housing would physically deteriorate and become stigmatized as inferior. The postwar economic recovery centered on public investment in homeownership through programs like the GI Bill, which privileged new construction and subsidized white flight to suburbs. This transformed America from a tenant to a homeowner majority in less than two decades, with over 27 million white people relocating to suburbs. There, they used political influence to enforce segregation through zoning laws that restricted 75% of developable land to single-family homes only. Meanwhile, cities underwent "slum clearance" that displaced 1.2 million people between 1949-1974. The Housing Act of 1949 promised "a decent home" for every American family but primarily empowered governments to seize land through eminent domain and transfer it to private developers. These urban renewal projects disproportionately targeted Black and Brown communities, with 55% of those displaced being Black residents. The Reagan era completed the assault on public housing, cutting HUD's budget by 80% and banning new public housing construction. Instead of public housing, the government shifted to market-based Section 8 vouchers and tax credits that ultimately benefited landlords and developers while homelessness doubled. Simultaneously, the prison system expanded sixfold, warehousing the poor while "broken windows" policing criminalized poverty itself. After the 2008 financial collapse, Wall Street firms capitalized on the crisis they created, pouring $60 billion into buying up housing. This has shifted twenty US cities from homeowner to tenant majorities. Today, speculators use government incentives like "empowerment zones" and "opportunity zones" to channel capital into historically disinvested neighborhoods. This gentrification doesn't revitalize neighborhoods but eliminates poor and working-class ways of life. To rewrite the next chapter with tenants as subjects rather than objects requires transforming individual housing crises into collective political action. As LA Tenants Union cofounder Walt Senterfitt reminds us, "It's not 'when we fight, we win,' but 'if we don't fight, we lose.'"

Capitolo 4

The Rent Strike: Tenants' Most Powerful Weapon

For tenants, the first night of a rent strike reveals something profound: despite not paying rent, their home persists. The building doesn't collapse, their keys still work, the roof remains overhead. This simple revelation exposes the absurdity of rent itself. Before the strike, tenants often go to extraordinary lengths to make rent payments-forgoing food and medicine, taking payday loans, pawning valuables, working multiple jobs-all to avoid the feared consequences of non-payment. No other experience so clearly demonstrates both the parasitic role of landlords and the power of collective action. Rent strikes assert housing as a human right, independent of ability to pay. Though temporary and risky, they're powerful: stopping cash flow to landlords reveals their dependence on tenants, suggesting the right to housing already exists and merely needs to be claimed. For individual buildings, rent strikes are crucial tactical weapons that create leverage for poor and working-class tenants against wealthy landlords. This leverage works without requiring government intervention or legal changes. Building-wide strikes have won rent cancellations, reductions, direct payments, repairs, and restored amenities. The story of Los Mariachis de Union de Vecinos in Boyle Heights demonstrates this power. In January 2017, Alejandro Juarez received notice of a rent increase from $840 to $1,495 in his building near Mariachi Plaza, where he'd lived for over ten years. Discovering other neighbors faced similar increases, Juarez reached out to LA Tenants Union's Eastside chapter. The tenants were galvanized by a Craigslist ad marketing their building as "Mariachi Crossing"-ironically using the neighborhood's cultural heritage while displacing the actual mariachis. They formed Los Mariachis de Union de Vecinos and documented building violations, requesting a meeting with management. When this failed to stop the rent increases, they tracked down the landlord, Frank "BJ" Turner, whose investment materials revealed plans to attract "millennial tenants" willing to pay premium prices in a "rapidly gentrifying" area. The tenants escalated their tactics-decorating their building with protest art, holding press conferences, and performing at the property manager's office. Unlike traditional legal aid approaches that treat tenants as victims awaiting help, the Mariachi tenants became political agents. They learned about their rights but ultimately chose to fight for what was right, not just what was legal. On June 1, 2017, they began a rent strike, with Francisco Gonzalez declaring, "At this point, there's nothing else we can lose." By the time they reached the bargaining table, they had completely transformed the power balance. They had stalled eviction proceedings, publicly shamed their landlord at his home, won political and media support, and deprived Turner of nearly a year's rent. When unsatisfied with Turner's offers, they escalated by setting up tents outside his Rancho Park home, connecting their struggle to LA's homelessness crisis. On February 12, 2018, after more than a year of struggle, they signed LA's first collective bargaining agreement of its kind. The contract canceled six months of withheld rent, reduced the original increase by over 75%, capped future increases at 5%, guaranteed repairs, and recognized their right to bargain collectively for all subsequent leases. Through direct action and community solidarity, they had essentially won rent control for their building. Rent strikes are acts of collective defiance that transform individual inability to pay into collective leverage. Los Mariachis affirmed their role as producers of Boyle Heights' value and their right to share in that value. By refusing to accept displacement as inevitable, they erected a barrier against gentrification.

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Capitolo 5

Building Tenant Power Through Community Organization

The tenant movement must move beyond the limited framework of "renter's rights workshops." We need to broaden our understanding of who suffers under the rent system, recognize that mere resources for individuals are insufficient, and acknowledge that existing tenant rights are inadequate and difficult to enforce. The human right to housing requires a fundamentally different housing system, state, and world-and tenants unions are the vehicle to build that world now. Building a tenants union requires five key strategies: building community, organizing units of power, reclaiming space, experimenting and learning, and keeping faith. We must first establish relationships of trust and solidarity among neighbors. These relationships are then organized into associations, local chapters, and the citywide union-creating instruments of collective action that can change the power dynamic between tenants and landlords. The power of tenant organizing grows with scale: from one tenant's complaint (tapping one finger), to neighbors talking (two fingers), to a tenants association with bargaining power (three fingers), to a local chapter supporting multiple associations (four fingers), to the full tenants union with citywide reach and solidarity (all five fingers clapping). Building community means transforming isolated neighbors into defensive and offensive communities through intentional processes and long-term commitments. The union helps tenants overcome shame, identify patterns of neglect, and collectivize risk. It strengthens existing practices of mutual care-from watching each other's children to distributing food-weaponizing everyday life against displacement. The Flower Drive Tenants Association demonstrates how building community becomes a powerful strategy against displacement. When investment firm Ventus Group acquired their rent-stabilized buildings and attempted to demolish them, resident Ines Alcazar and others realized that isolation was their weakness. Their landlord had given different information to each tenant, offered varying buyout amounts while claiming each was the maximum, and spread lies to turn neighbors against each other. Through nearly four years of sharing space and strategizing, the association transformed casual "good day" relationships into a united front with collective power. As Alcazar explains, "Working together as a community, it makes you feel you have this power in you. Like nobody is going to take it away." When confronting the owner at a meeting, they spoke as one: "We're not leaving, we want to stay here and we want to fight for it." For Alcazar, this process transformed her understanding of "communism" from something controlling to something about having control: "Communist to me is community. Community working together... My dream is that one day not only Flower Drive but all these tenants unions become communist-communist as working together, for one purpose, getting a house for everybody."

Capitolo 6

Reclaiming Space and Building Collective Knowledge

Tenant power grows through physical reclamation of shared spaces. The Esperanza Neighborhood Committee's transformation of a dangerous alley in Boyle Heights demonstrates this approach. After a mugging, neighbors organized weekly cleanups, turning a dumping ground into community space through persistent collective effort. They eventually hosted movie nights, craft markets, and created murals-converting a feared space into a community asset. Their organizing expanded to address broader neighborhood neglect-filling potholes, painting crosswalks, and creating DIY speed bumps. While demanding government resources, they simultaneously built autonomous solutions, adopting the philosophy "It's better to beg forgiveness than ask permission." Their direct action created the authority to make demands, not requests, eventually securing streetlights and infrastructure improvements. Physical presence becomes political power when tenants occupy and transform spaces. By emphasizing social and cultural fabric over real estate value, tenant unions establish "beachheads" for building power. This approach counters the gentrification cycle where community improvements lead to displacement. When tenants become agents of neighborhood improvement, they ensure they remain its beneficiaries. The union's work also addresses safety without police, creating infrastructure where "our safety comes from neighbors knowing each other, helping each other, and protecting each other." By reclaiming disinvested spaces and making them useful, tenant organizing demonstrates that "a safe space is an inhabited space." Tenant unions also function as learning organizations where strategies travel between associations, with each building building upon previous experiences rather than starting from scratch. Alma Angel, a Spanish-speaking mother who refused buyout offers up to $100,000 to leave her home of 23 years, pioneered resistance tactics by gathering neighbors to confront renovation workers and demand they replace her moldy carpet-forcing repairs after decades of neglect. As Sam Trinh explains, "We can just recycle... Alma invented a strategy, now that's how we know how to get things done." Her testimonial now appears in LATU's citywide "cash-for-keys" educational materials. The council creates a culture of experimentation where political risks become learning opportunities. The spiritual dimension of tenant organizing manifests in creative actions like the Vermont y Beverly chapter's Posada at the LA Housing Department, where members dressed as biblical figures seeking shelter to highlight how officials were rubber-stamping relocation requests that sent tenants to nonexistent locations-even a cemetery. This remix of Mexican religious tradition leveraged spiritual righteousness for political protest. Against the individualism, shame and depression of gentrification, the union cultivates dignity, mutuality, and solidarity. When faced with the tension between housing emergencies and the slow work of organizing, faith in collective action sustains members.

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Capitolo 7

From Housing Struggle to Land Sovereignty

Isabel Garcia has lived in her Boyle Heights apartment for nearly sixty years. Despite facing relentless harassment from her landlord Bruce Terani-including frivolous eviction notices, removal of amenities, and targeting her son with nuisance complaints-Garcia has fought to remain in her home while battling multiple health conditions. Her total rent payments likely equal the cost of the entire building, yet she still faces housing insecurity. Garcia's building has become a center of community organizing. The trees she planted now provide fruit for neighbors and shade for tenant association meetings and food distribution events. When the landlord attempted to sabotage the garden by installing spiky cacti and poisonous plants with a barrier fence, it revealed how communal spaces threaten landlord control. Tenant struggles are fundamentally about collective sovereignty over land. When tenants organize to control shared spaces, they challenge private property as the sole governing force. Two case studies demonstrate this revolutionary horizon: Hillside Villa tenants in Chinatown and unhoused tenants of Echo Park Lake-both forms of "tenant occupations" that challenge landlords' power to collect rent and evict, while confronting both state policy and police power. The Hillside Villa struggle began when tenants organized against rent increases after their building's affordability covenant expired. Their first collective letter demanded a meeting with landlord Tom Botz, protesting both rent increases and attacks on communal life-children forbidden from common areas and armed security harassing residents. Though legal challenges bought them time, the tenants escalated by demanding the city purchase the building and sell it back to them. After months of pressure, their councilmember Gil Cedillo offered Botz $12.7 million to extend rent caps, but the landlord denied making any deal, comparing government protection for tenants to being in "Cuba or Venezuela." Facing eviction, tenants launched a rent strike in October 2020, eventually growing to include the entire association. They staged actions targeting the city budget, highlighting tax breaks for developers and the LAPD's massive funding while housing remained precarious. In May 2022, the City Council voted to purchase the building but refused to commit to using eminent domain if Botz wouldn't sell. The landlord retaliated by destroying the garden in their courtyard-a communal space that had become central to their organizing. Tenants formed a picket line that successfully blocked contractors from continuing the destruction. As Botz complained, "the tenants really had no intention of ever leaving. They wanted to stay there for life."

Capitolo 8

Autonomous Communities vs. Carceral Housing

Gustavo Otzoy and other unhoused residents at Echo Park Lake created a community that contrasted sharply with the city's carceral housing options. While Project Roomkey hotel rooms imposed prison-like restrictions (7:00 p.m. curfews, bans on guests and pets, limited possessions), the park offered stability and autonomy during the pandemic. Under CDC guidance that halted sweeps, residents built impressive infrastructure: 24-hour bathroom access, a communal pantry, phone charging stations, showers, a vegetable garden, and solar-powered lighting. They established a jobs program paying residents $10/hour for roles like security and donation management, and implemented harm reduction practices including Narcan distribution. Their banner proclaimed "Healing happens here." Weekly meetings fostered democratic decision-making about resources and defense strategies. Three basic rules governed the community: don't steal from others, keep your area clean, and use drugs only inside tents. As resident Cecelia Acho explained, they were "figuring out how to solve these problems that come about due to the lack of affordable housing." The encampment threatened the city's gentrification agenda that had already displaced a third of Echo Park's immigrant population between 2000-2014. Officials deliberately undermined the community by denying hygiene services and cutting electricity, then used these manufactured conditions to justify removal. In March 2021, the city deployed 400 riot police to evict residents, erecting a mile-long fence that remained for over two years. The LAPD's 101-page report revealed their concern about the residents' "claims of ownership over the public space." Despite promises of housing, only 7% of residents were placed in permanent housing a year later; half were missing and nine had died. Following the eviction, Otzoy and others formed Unhoused Tenants Against Carceral Housing (UTACH), winning improvements in temporary housing conditions before eventually joining LATU. Their resistance demonstrated that unhoused people are key political subjects in the struggle for housing liberation.

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Capitolo 9

Convivir: Creating Another Way of Life

While it's easier to identify rent's harms than to envision a future without it, our movement's actions serve a dual prophetic function: denouncing the profit-driven housing system while announcing an alternative way of living. Though our struggles remain partial and victories can be reversed, the everyday resistance of poor and working-class tenants points toward a new horizon-transforming individual ownership into collective stewardship. Tenants must both defend their housing through associations and make demands of the state that produce budgetary and legitimacy crises. As Hillside Villa shows, rather than merely demanding new social housing, we must socialize housing itself. Meanwhile, Echo Park Rise Up demonstrated how we can reclaim space directly, building autonomous capacity in opposition to the state by treating land as a social good that belongs to all people. The Second Street Tenants Association embodies the movement's spirit through their collective resistance and community building. When Isabel Garcia joined, she was drawn to the opportunity to "convivir"-to live together, hang out, and get close to others. This sense of connection sustained them through landlord harassment and pandemic hardship, leading to their rent strike under the banner "Food Not Rent." Their garden, communal gatherings, and mutual support demonstrate that the means and ends of the tenant movement are one: creating another way of life. Now researching how to buy their building as a cooperative, they aim not just to stabilize their housing but to anchor the movement in their neighborhood. As Garcia said about life without landlords: all tenants could "convivir"-live together, interact, and engage with each other. Like the spiritual they often sing, "Like a tree planted by the water, we shall not be moved."

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Temi chiave in Abolire l'affitto

tenant power
housing decommodification
landlord exploitation
eviction resistance
racialized displacement

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Ultimately, rent kills.
The housing market doesn't produce homes but investment opportunities.
Criminalization of homelessness effectively makes it illegal not to pay rent.
The average landlord spends less than four hours monthly maintaining a property.

Personaggi di Abolire l'affitto

Tracy RosenthalAuthor and housing justice advocate
Leonardo VilchisAuthor and housing justice advocate
Herbert HooverU.S. President who prioritized homeownership

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Tracy Rosenthal e Leonardo Vilchis, co-autori di Abolish Rent: How Tenants Can End the Housing Crisis, sono voci autorevoli nella giustizia abitativa e nell'attivismo degli inquilini. Rosenthal, scrittrice e co-fondatrice della Los Angeles Tenants Union, apporta una lente analitica acuta sulla disparità abitativa, con lavori pubblicati su The New Republic, The Nation e il Los Angeles Times.

Vilchis, organizzatore veterano che ha co-fondato Union de Vecinos nel 1996, ha trascorso tre decenni a combattere la gentrificazione e lo sfollamento a Boyle Heights, fondendo campagne di base con collaborazioni accademiche presso l'Institute on Inequality and Democracy della UCLA. Il loro libro, edito da Haymarket Books, unisce una critica rigorosa dei sistemi di affitto sfruttatori a testimonianze dirette di resistenza degli inquilini, difesa dagli sfratti e solidarietà transfrontaliera.

Radicati nei loro ruoli di organizzatori, gli autori intrecciano le strategie dei sindacati degli inquilini con quadri abolizionisti, sostenendo la proprietà collettiva e modelli abitativi democratici. Rosenthal guida attualmente uno sciopero degli affitti a New York City, mentre Vilchis continua a organizzare attraverso la sezione Eastside Local della L.A. Tenants Union.

Elogiato da Ruth Wilson Gilmore come "lettura essenziale" per la giustizia abitativa, Abolish Rent è stato presentato nel The Chicago Reader e sostenuto dagli abolizionisti carcerari, consolidando la sua influenza nei movimenti per l'equità economica e razziale.

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