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Director @KCTenants / @KCTenantsPower and Tenant Union Federation

Kansas City, MO

Joined September 2009

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Tara Raghuveer

11 months

Here's a story about a trailer park, a tenant union, and a bully who thought he could dismiss poor people in Kansas City and get away with it. (Spoiler: He didn't.) In 2021 @KCTenants organized Heart Village Mobile Homes when the County evicted the residents to build a jail.

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SAY IT WITH ME: A property owner losing money on a building is not the same thing as a tenant losing their home during a pandemic when staying home is the way to stay alive.

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Turns out @BernieSanders has a plan to end utility shut offs, tucked into his disability rights platform. An underrated Bernie strength is his nuanced perspective on the intersections between issues like housing, energy, accessibility.

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Holy shit. In the largest self-organized housing takeover in the country, 50 unhoused mothers and children JUST WON their campaign to remain in vacant city-owned homes 🔥🔥

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BREAKING: WE FUCKING WON

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Every eviction is an act of violence. Not just pandemic evictions. Not just winter evictions. Not just school year evictions. Not just informal evictions. Not just evictions through the courts. Every eviction is an act of violence.

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Every eviction is an act of violence. Not just now. Not just till October or another arbitrary date. Not just rent related evictions during a pandemic. Every eviction is an act of violence.

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UNHOUSED PEOPLE ORGANIZED AND WON. After a two-month encampment at City Hall, followed by a week of escalation after City Hall threatened to evict them, the Kansas City Homeless Union has won what could be the seedlings of a citywide social housing program in Kansas City.

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Kansas City Homeless Union made history today, winning at least 111 deeply affordable homes for people currently experiencing homelessness, good jobs, 500 hotel rooms to facilitate a transition to permanent housing, and a guaranteed seat at the table for future negotiations.

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95% of organizing isn't seen in public: Prepping meeting agendas, setting up folding chairs, arranging rides and childcare, training on theory and practice, evaluating everything. The remaining 5% is only possible if this foundation is sound.

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Tara Raghuveer

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REMINDER: A landlord losing money on an investment is not equivalent to a tenant losing their home due to an eviction, especially during a pandemic. One is loss of profit, another is potential loss of life. Do not conflate these phenomena. #EndEvictions

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July 1. Rent is due. Without a vaccine to treat the pandemic, HOUSING was the prescription. We were told to stay at home. But we failed our neighbors. Mayors could have housed the unhoused, Governors/Congress could have cancelled rents. This inaction has and will cost lives.

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Someone: Public housing was a fai-- Me: Public housing was built for white working class people and was a dignified place to live but then we gave white people loans to buy homes and then we disinvested from public housing when black and brown people moved in and...

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People are shocked @BernieSanders is winning. I’m not, at all. I’m a young immigrant living in the midwest, anxious about climate catastrophe, among much else. I organize tenants, mostly working class people of color. For me and most people in my life, Bernie’s been it all along.

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Corporate landlords are using inflation as an excuse to raise rents, and they are raising rents beyond inflation. They are rent gouging. Even more perverse: their business model has been subsidized and financed by the government and government-sponsored enterprises.

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Tara Raghuveer

4 years

WATCH as the fierce @TianaCaldwell15 disrupts @JoeBiden at his rally in Kansas City. Tiana, who has experienced eviction and homelessness, demands a #HomesGuarantee . Biden tells her to be quiet, promises to meet with her, and then hides after the rally.

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Policymakers, journalists, etc. please stop treating these as comparable phenomena. There is no comparison. One loss is a troubled investment, another is a potential death sentence.

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I think to be a good organizer you have to LOVE people. You can rage against the target, the state, the system. But your love for the people has got to outweigh the rage. LOVE the serious, the goofy, the shy, the loud, the messy. To be a good organizer you have to LOVE people❤️‍🔥

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3 years

The courts are just one venue for eviction. Landlords use all sorts of means to displace tenants and these are evictions, too: rent hikes, lease non-renewal, sale of property, refusal to accept assistance/vouchers, harassment, threats, utility shut offs, uninhabitable conditions.

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People are in my mentions saying "what about mortgages!" haven't been paying attention to the #CancelRent movement beyond balking at the slogan. We wrote a bill in April with @IlhanMN that would cancel rents AND mortgages and protect us from speculators:

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In March 2020, we could have cancelled rent and paid people to stay home. Instead, we forced people to go to work so they could make rent. The cost was human life. In January 2022, we could cancel rent and pay people to stay home. By now, we know the cost if we don’t.

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When a roll of toilet paper gets more expensive, that can hurt. But when rent gets more expensive, that's simply devastating. It's such a big bill. People are forced to choose between eating paying rent. Tenants stay with abusers to keep costs down. People skip their meds.

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3 years

With every eviction we allow, we are prioritizing one person's profits over another person's life.

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2 years

During early COVID, many forecasted an eviction crisis to come once moratoriums expired. Make no mistake: The eviction crisis IS upon us, it just looks different than the wonk prediction. The crisis isn't playing out in courtrooms as much as it is on Zillow and in leases.

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“I bet you'll go in there and find a brand new flatscreen. That's where her stimulus money went. I don't have any feelings for these people. None." -A Kansas City landlord evicting a tenant on Tuesday.

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Tara Raghuveer

2 years

Especially compared to gas price discourse, chatter on rent demonstrates the chokehold the profiteers have on our imaginations. Rent is one of our biggest bills, yet we've normalized rent gouging. Rents are set based on whatever the market allows. We could change that, actually.

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Today is historic. People impacted by the housing crisis are proposing a #HomesGuarantee : a complete overhaul of our economy, and a vision to eradicate housing insecurity and homelessness once and for all. Nothing short of this will do:

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If tenants paid rent in April/May, it came at a cost. Some used savings, others paid on cards. Tenants hustled for work, forced to risk their lives to keep their home. Some tenants have scraped by until now, but many are approaching a cliff. #CancelRent

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An ‘Avalanche of Evictions’ Could Be Bearing Down on America’s Renters (Published 2020)

The economic downturn is shaping up to be particularly devastating for renters, who are more likely to be lower-income and work hourly jobs cut during the pandemic.

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Eggs are $5+ and tenants are paying corporate landlords $1000+ for a couple hundred square feet of mess. It's hard to take it seriously when the people paid to look at charts tell us that they have "good news" about the economy.

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When tenants talk to reporters, reporters often call the landlord or a service provider to confirm their account. I very rarely hear of a reporter calling the LL’s tenants to ask about the LL’s claims. Usually the LL gets to say “I’m a good guy” and it’s taken as fact.

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4 years

We could end homelessness today but instead we're giving $500 billion to corporations.

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4 years

TODAY @Ilhan introduces a bill to: 💥Suspend rents, mortgages 💥Provide relief to owners, conditioned on tenant protections 💥Create a fund to prevent massive 2008-style speculation, begin transition to social housing This must be in the next stimulus package. #CancelRent

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🚨I’m holding a press conference on my new bill to cancel rent and mortgage payments through the duration of this crisis. Watch now:

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An inflation reduction strategy that doesn’t prioritize rent regulation is doomed. Housing costs are American households’ biggest monthly expense, and rent is a key driver of core inflation. Now is the time for federal action to regulate rents, by any/all means necessary.

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1 year

Gonna need national eyes on the tenant revolution in Kansas City. The tenant union just dominated the primary elections, advancing every endorsed tenant champion, and decisively beating the police.

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Tara Raghuveer

2 years

Building more housing does NOT solve rent inflation today. Building housing takes time, and most supply-side interventions are all too reliant on the private market, where high rents are built into the business model. The only urgent solution to runaway rents is rent control.

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Tara Raghuveer

2 years

VICTORY. Today 70% of Kansas City voted to approve a $50 million bond for housing with rents between $550-750, at or below 30% of area median income. What the people can actually afford! The rent is too damn high, but @KCTenants x @KCTenantsPower are fixin to fix it ❤️‍🔥

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TENANTS WIN $50 MILLI FOR DEEPLY AFFORDABLE HOUSING. We've seen enough! With 70% of the city reporting, Question 2 passes with approx. 70% support. Kansas City votes to #HouseThePeople , authorizing a $50 million bond for housing between $550-750 dollars.

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If we are committed to dismantling white supremacy, we are required to interrogate American homeownership, which is one of these most widespread monuments to it.

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After today, we're gonna need all of you to channel this level of hype to get the rent cancelled.

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People are donating plasma, skipping meals, not sleeping, taking out payday loans, maxing credit cards, leaving prescriptions unfilled... All to pay rent. During a global pandemic. In the richest country n the history of the world. It doesn't have to be like this. #CancelRent

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"We need a #HomesGuarantee ." @BernieSanders This historic, grassroots-sourced plan includes: 💥Millions of social homes 💥Massive reinvestment in public housing 💥National rent control 💥Decarbonization 💥Commitment to END homelessness A better world is within reach.

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Tara Raghuveer

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Eviction is voter suppression. Poverty is voter suppression. Forcing people to hustle between multiple jobs so they can pay rent is voter suppression. Stealing people's time and labor through patchwork social services and labyrinthine bureaucracies is voter suppression.

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Biden didn't have a housing plan until just before Super Tuesday, making him the only candidate to ignore this issue for the majority of the campaign. Biden's plan doesn't mention public housing once. Biden's plan is NOT a #HomesGuarantee , not even close.

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It’s an insult to the intelligence of unhoused people that public officials consistently suggest the same list of resources that are supposed to solve everything— as though unhoused people haven’t already done that research, been through those shelters, exhausted those resources.

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Inflation numbers and charts obscure the human impact. A tenant whose landlord raised the rent $97: "I am a senior citizen. Now I literally have to count my pennies. Get only the bare essentials, no treats. No fruit. Meat is a luxury. I’ve had to cut back my physical care."

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Holy shit. Just got a call from a woman whose lease ended as she was laid off from her job last week. She is now homeless, living in her car w her cat. She's desperate, out of cash, tryng to find work in a GROCERY STORE, though she hasn't been able to wash hands, shower in days.

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A landlord just called asking how to evict tenants during the moratorium (got my # from Housing Authority of KC...). He went on and on about tenants' drug use, etc. I clarified he *cannot* evict right now. He finally said, "I guess it'll be like getting rid of cockroaches, huh?"

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Tara Raghuveer

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😒Rent Assistance: Landlord bailout that puts the burden on the tenant to apply. Not universal. 😃Rent Cancellation: No payments, no late fees, no debt. Relief for some property owners, conditioned on tenant protections. Universal. #CancelRent

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Tara Raghuveer

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One of the easiest things @JoeBiden could do for poor and working class Americans is sign an Executive Order on his first day as President to #EndEvictions . He must *expand* the existing CDC eviction moratorium. It's wonky but the nuance matters, lives are at stake. Stick w me...

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3 years

The St. Louis Mayor calls this a "very dangerous disturbance." Seems to me like the most dangerous and disturbing thing is locking humans in cages, especially during a deadly pandemic.

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Inmates smash windows, set fire at St. Louis city jail.

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😀RENT SUSPENSION (aka #RentZero ): No payments, no late fees, no debt. Best option. 🙂RENT FREEZE: Rent owed but no increases allowed. Good but not enough. 😐RENTAL ASSISTANCE: Tenants can apply for help with rent. Likely means-tested, not universal, burden on tenant.

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Tara Raghuveer

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Rent inflation is an eviction crisis. For most tenants, when their landlord raises the rent, that's tantamount to an eviction, without a day in court. Tenants, especially those already paying 50% monthly income to rent, can't just figure out how to pay another $200.

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Tara Raghuveer

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This statement is false, ahistorical, and completely out of touch with the realities of today. The violence of our housing system is the outcome of decades of profit-first policy. We can’t rely on the profiteers to solve a problem that makes them rich.

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HUD @SecFudge : "We have to use the private sector as partners to try to make sure that we can build to scale. And the only way to do that is to make it profitable for them to build [affordable housing]."

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Tara Raghuveer

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The frontrunner for the Democratic nomination for President of the United States just said 10 million deeply affordable units and rent control. @BernieSanders embraced the demands from decades of tenant organizing. Absolutely gamechanging. Onwards to a #HomesGuarantee !

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I grew up in a rent-controlled apartment. We have got to institute rent control nationwide and finally stop landlords from ripping off the American people.

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Tiana Caldwell asked @ewarren to commit to a #HomesGuarantee . Warren didn't commit. Instead summarized her plan. Tiana followed up: Do you commit to 12m social housing units, $150b for public housing, and universal rent control? Warren did not commit. #ThePeoplesForum

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Tara Raghuveer

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I can't make this up. Today I shared space with @BernieSanders , @AOC , @CornelWest , 50 incredible grassroots leaders with @GroundGameLA . I led a training on racial capitalism, housing policy, and why we need a #HomesGuarantee . AND I just squirted hot sauce directly INTO MY OWN EYE

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Tara Raghuveer

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During COVID, Congress has unlocked billions in rent assistance to stabilize the market. Over the same period, corporate landlords made record profits and raised rents. Tenants are more precarious than ever, with no more protections than two years ago. Not a coincidence.

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Tara Raghuveer

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Approximately two seconds before the eviction moratorium is set to expire, the White House finally issues a statement confirming that CDC will not extend it. This message should have come weeks ago, alongside real efforts to move Congress to a solution.

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Statement by White House Press Secretary Jen Psaki on Biden-Harris Administration Eviction Preven...

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Tara Raghuveer

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Stop trying to put band aids over bullet wounds. It hasn't worked. It won't work. We need a National Tenants Bill of Rights that includes universal rent control, a ban on source of income discrimination, etc. We need a #HomesGuarantee . Nothing short of this will do.

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Tara Raghuveer

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Tenants, as an organized class, can change the structure of our economy, the nature of our cities and towns, the power dynamic between profiteers and people. Our experiments with tenant union organizing via @KCTenants by @ConorDougherty in @nytimes

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The Rent Revolution Is Coming (Published 2022)

For the 44 million households who rent a home or apartment in the U.S., inflation keeps pushing costs higher and higher. Anger is rising too. It could be a breaking point.

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We were outspent 50:1* and we won. Billionaires can’t buy Kansas City, billionaires can’t extort the people. Not with @KCTenants , the 10,000-member tenant union fighting back 😌

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Quick bit of math: Looks like the Yes Committee spent $53 per vote. The combined No Committee and KC Tenants spent about $1.50 per vote.

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Eviction is a tool invented and deployed by the state to protect private interests over public needs. State violence comes in many forms, and this is one of them.

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Tara Raghuveer

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August 1. The rent is due. The federal eviction moratorium expired last week. The $600 unemployment boost ended this week. Over 17 million households are unable to pay the rent and at risk of eviction. When they are forced from their homes, where will they live?

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Tara Raghuveer

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CLARIFYING: This applies to HUD housing only. This is NOT a nationwide eviction moratorium, not even close. Need a rent/mortgage holiday, nationwide eviction moratorium now.

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Yamiche Alcindor

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BREAKING: President Trump says HUD is "suspending all foreclosures and evictions until the end of April."

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Black organizers in Oakland won, pushing the school district to get cops out of schools. Victories like this don't come easy, they are born from years of struggle. So beautiful and inspiring 🔥

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WE. DID. IT. !!!!!!

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More on Krisi's eviction here:

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In February, Krisi signed a lease with Reliable Properties on a home in her kids' school district, after paying almost $6,000 in deposits plus first/last month’s rent. A few weeks earlier, she’d finally found a job that paid a decent wage. Things were looking up for her family.

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“Legislating for the 21st Century means guaranteeing housing as a human right.” - @AOC #HomesGuarantee #PeoplesHousingPlatform

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Tara Raghuveer

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TODAY @BernieSanders committed to sign the #HomesGuarantee candidate pledge to: 🌿build millions of green homes 🙋🏽‍♀️protect tenants ✊🏽fully fund public housing 💵reject and return real estate $ He joins over 70 fed/state/local candidates‼️

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Tara Raghuveer

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Good morning. Yesterday a woman named Jennifer called me. She told me that she had texted her landlord about an electrical issue for months, he ignored her. This weekend her house burned down. Jennifer and her family are now paying out of pocket to live in an extended stay hotel.

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Tara Raghuveer

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Every eviction is an act of violence. And we can't solve for the individual acts of violence without a strategy for the systemic violence, which has everything to do with power. Tenants need power, landlords need checks on theirs. The government has an obligation to intervene.

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I think this may be the first moment that some landlords are realizing that their profits are predicated on the labor of their tenants.

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Tara Raghuveer

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You know who has a housing plan that would actually change Tiana's life? @BernieSanders . He released his plan in September, pledged his support for the #HomesGuarantee in December, and has consistently listened to people impacted by the housing crisis.

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Housing for All | Bernie Sanders Official Website

In the richest country in the history of the world, every American must have a safe, decent, accessible, and affordable home as a fundamental right.

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Something I'm excited about: @KCTenantsPower is on the brink of winning the largest-ever public commitment to housing in Kansas City history. $50 million, all for units at or below 30% AMI, or around $580 for a one bedroom, $725 for three bedroom. KCMO: YES on Question 2 ‼️

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Tara Raghuveer

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I responded: "Excuse me? I wouldn't refer to people as cockroaches." He said: "Well what else do you call them when they are ruining your property and they have to go?" Then he hung up. I am terrified of the illegal actions landlords will take to "get rid" of tenants right now.

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Tara Raghuveer

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It is important that you know evictions are still happening. Evictions have BEEN happening in the months since the federal moratorium was first enacted in September 2020. Many local judges *never* shut down eviction court. Over 150 scheduled in Jackson County, MO tomorrow.

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Tara Raghuveer

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Organizing through an abolitionist framework works. Another world is possible. Shout out to the young Black folks who organized for this and won.

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#BREAKING : Minneapolis Public Schools votes unanimously to terminate its contract with the Minneapolis Police Department, in response to the death of #GeorgeFloyd .

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All eviction moratoria must end eviction filings, hearings, and enforcement for the duration of crisis AND recovery. They must come with harsh penalties for violators. AND eviction moratoria are NOT enough. We need #RentZero : No rent or mortgage payments, no late fees, no debts.

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Tara Raghuveer

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I can't believe that no one has written a scathing exposé about how Missouri has evicted people BY CONFERENCE CALL for five months. For the love of all things good and holy, please slide into my DMs if you want to write this story.

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Tara Raghuveer

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If you're looking only at formal eviction data to understand how landlords are pushing tenants out, you're missing a much bigger story. The court numbers don't account for the power that landlords have over their tenants in a world where tenants have almost no protected rights.

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Tara Raghuveer

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Over half a million people sleep on the streets, every night, in the richest country in the history of the world. Why are we talking about who’s mean to whom on this website?

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The rent is too damn high, and it's time to do something about it. Today's inflation numbers show rent up 5.8%, and June saw the biggest one-month gain since 1986. Median rent is over $2000 for the first time ever.

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Tara Raghuveer

4 years

I cannot understand why people with power and influence are throwing down for rental assistance when tenants have been screaming for #CancelRent for six months. Rent cancellation was and still is the only viable, just solution for tenants.

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Tara Raghuveer

2 years

Shawnee just banned roommates. Crucial context: Shawnee is in Johnson County, the wealthiest county in Kansas. Poor people and tenants are already invisibilized in places like this. Policies like the one passed this week make these communities even more hostile to non-homeowners.

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curtis ''buick fucker'' wilcox

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I'M NOT SORRY BUT HOW THE FUCK ARE Y'ALL GONNA BAN PEOPLE LIVING TOGETHER. PEOPLE. LIVING. TOGETHER. im gonna throw up

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Tara Raghuveer

4 years

Millions of tenants won't be able to pay rent tomorrow. Others will pay, but to do so they'll defer other payments, or choose between food and rent. It doesn't have to be this way. We have always needed a #HomesGuarantee , and now we can see exactly why.

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Tara Raghuveer

4 years

We could still #CancelRent and forgive all accrued debt. As of right now, it's looking more likely that, at best, our communities will get some rental assistance in a few months. It'll be too little, too late for millions of tenants who are in eviction court as I write.

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Tara Raghuveer

3 years

December 1. Rent is due, 9 months into the worst economic crisis of our lives. Tenants can’t pay and shouldn’t have to. While corporate landlords have gotten PPP loans and smaller landlords have negotiated mortgage forbearance, tenants are paying rent on credit cards. Travesty.

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Tara Raghuveer

7 years

As the sun set in DC, proud to stand with thousands outside of the White House. We are still here. Water is life #NoDAPL #NoKXL

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Tara Raghuveer

3 years

This month, the White House and @JoeBiden will very likely allow the (inadequate) federal eviction moratorium to expire. We could have learned from the last year. We could end evictions, forever. Instead, the state will double down on usual business, working for the profiteers.

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Tara Raghuveer

3 years

It’s called! St. Paul just passed the strongest rent control policy in the country. Love to @HENStp and all the fierce tenants who fought like hell for their neighborhoods. Onwards to a national tenants bill of rights.

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Tara Raghuveer

3 years

Tenants in St. Paul are very close to winning rent control. Big big. Midwest tenants don’t mess around. Huge ups to #KeepStPaulHome 💛

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Tara Raghuveer

3 years

After an eviction, most people will never be able to rent a decent place again. They're being sentenced to a lifetime of abusive landlords, extractive fees, mold-filled apartments. Asthma. Harassment. Trauma.

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Tara Raghuveer

4 years

watch them ignore housing tonight while 40 million people can't pay their rent

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Tara Raghuveer

11 months

It's impossible for me to tell you how it feels for thousands of people in Kansas City to vote with the tenant union. We've knocked doors and talked to people who don't know there's an election, don't know a candidate's name, but they know the tenant union. The stuff of dreams.

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Tara Raghuveer

4 years

If you can't pay the rent right now: it's not your fault, and you shouldn't have to. We need a federal rent and mortgage suspension. In the absence of federal action, we need states to act. What's the alternative? #RentZero #CancelRent

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Tara Raghuveer

3 years

Rental assistance was not designed for tenants. It was designed to stabilize an industry. Rental assistance (plus mortgage forbearance, PPP loans, etc.) have not only kept landlords afloat, but actually got their balances higher than ever. @sophie_kasakove

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With Cases Piling Up, an Eviction Crisis Unfolds Step by Step (Published 2021)

Evictions are rising nationwide. “We don’t know where the ceiling is,” one expert said.

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Tara Raghuveer

3 years

When you can’t reach your landlord to deal with the bedbugs but he’s in there like underwear the second you post a tenant union flyer 👀

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KC Tenants

3 years

‼️ SPOTTED: Local slumlord Matt McGee ripping down tenant union literature. What are you scared of, Matt? Why wouldn’t you want your tenants to organize? Afraid you might be held accountable for the condition of your properties?

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Tara Raghuveer

4 years

"The legislation... is arguably the most ambitious Green New Deal policy since the movement for a sweeping industrial plan to shrink climate-changing emissions and expand protections for the poor went mainstream." @AlexCKaufman on @Ilhan 's #HomesGuarantee

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Tara Raghuveer

3 years

WE JUST WON ZERO EVICTION JANUARY. THEY COULDN'T HANDLE US FOR 11 DAYS. Now time to win a real moratorium that ends ALL evictions, everywhere. NO filings, NO summons, NO hearings, NO writs, NO arbitrary end date. EVERY EVICTION IS AN ACT OF VIOLENCE.

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KC Tenants

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BREAKING: WE JUST WON #ZeroEvictionJanuary . Presiding Judge Dale Youngs just signed an order that stops all eviction summons, hearings, and writs of execution through January 24 or until the order is amended/revised.

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Tara Raghuveer

3 years

This isn't controversial: cancel rental debt. Millions of households are thousands of dollars in debt to their landlords after ten months of the pandemic, job loss, and an economic disaster. People shouldn't be evicted for that debt, and they shouldn't ever have to pay it down.

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Tara Raghuveer

3 years

Law firms, law schools, and top legal organizations can’t change a power dynamic that is stacked against the tenant. How can a lawyer help when you don’t have rights to protect? AG Garland is better served calling on Congress to legislate long-overdue tenant protections.

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CBS News

3 years

Attorney General Merrick Garland is calling on "the entire legal community" — including law firms, law schools and top legal organizations — "to take immediate action to help prevent unnecessary evictions" during the pandemic, Psaki announces

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Tara Raghuveer

4 years

Grassroots leaders came up with every demand in the #HomesGuarantee , including the 12 million units of social housing and the Community Control and Anti-Displacement fund (see the screengrabs). @IlhanMN listened. That is leadership... and you genuinely love to see it.

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Tara Raghuveer

4 years

Bernie Sanders called for an eviction moratorium. Moments like this show us who our leaders are, who’s looking out for the people, who we can trust.

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Bernie Sanders

4 years

It will be easy to feel like we are in this alone, or that we must only worry about ourselves and let everyone else fend for themselves. That would be a very dangerous mistake. We must remember that we are in this together.

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Tara Raghuveer

3 years

It's hard not to feel like a curmudgeon when critiquing the "deal" that was "won" from Congress. On the other hand, I'm accountable to tenants who are actually impacted by this. Here's what they had to say:

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Tara Raghuveer

6 months

BREAKING: @repcleaver calls for ceasefire during a meeting with Palestinian leaders in Kansas City today.

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