Berkeley Tenants Union - Yes on Prop 50

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Abundance!

Academic workers from the AAUP and AFT won a federal lawsuit against the Trump administration's actions against noncitizen students and faculty for pro-Palestine speech.

The case underscores the power of unions to resist authoritarianism and shows workers' rights = civil rights = immigrant rights 🧵

Berkeley Tenants Union September 30, 2025 Counseling Clinic Intake **If your landlord threatens to evict you for ANY reason, immediately email info@berkeleytenants.org with the subject line "I AM BEING EVICTED" so we can provide you help ASAP. (California tenants out...

Are you unable to pay rent or having trouble with your landlord? Our next FREE counseling clinic with tenant attorneys for East Bay tenants is TUESDAY, September 30 at 3-5pm! The sign-up deadline is this FRIDAY, September 26 (i.e. FOUR days beforehand).

Housing justice is global. Senators report Israel is destroying Palestinian homes to force families out—ethnic cleansing by another name. Just like tenants everywhere, Palestinians deserve safe, stable homes.

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To clear up some confusion we've been hearing: Saikat Chakrabarti is not a DSA SF member, doesn't identify as a socialist, and is not endorsed by our chapter. He has even donated to corporate-backed candidates, including to help defeat our member @deanpreston.bsky.social 1/2
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California tenants living outside Alameda and Contra Costa counties should call @tenantstogether.bsky.social at 888-495-8020 for counseling (both for responding to evictions and for general assistance).

If a landlord threatens eviction for ANY reason, *immediately* email info@berkeleytenants.org with the subject line "I AM BEING EVICTED" so we can help. Because of extremely unfair legal deadlines for (even illegal) evictions, it's crucial to react ASAP. Do NOT wait to use our clinic for evictions.

Berkeley Tenants Union September 30, 2025 Counseling Clinic Intake **If your landlord threatens to evict you for ANY reason, immediately email info@berkeleytenants.org with the subject line "I AM BEING EVICTED" so we can provide you help ASAP. (California tenants out...

Are you unable to pay rent or having trouble with your landlord? Our next FREE counseling clinic with tenant attorneys for East Bay tenants is TUESDAY, September 30 at 3-5pm! The sign-up deadline is this FRIDAY, September 26 (i.e. FOUR days beforehand).

DEFEND THE NEIGHBORHOOD BUILD TENANT POWER Membership Vote on Endorsing Prop 50 Berkeley Tenants Union Membership Meeting and Potluck Sunday, Sept. 21, from 4:00pm to 5:30pm Grassroots House (2022 Blake St, Berkeley) Sign-up for our emails: bit.ly/BerkeleyTenants

Join us September 21 to learn how to form a tenant union! We’ll also discuss our proposed ballot measure to tax landlords to fund social housing, vote on whether to endorse Prop 50, and more!

We hope to see you September 21 at Grassroots House. Berkeley tenants unite!

RENTER IN BERKELEY? LANDLORD PROBLEMS? UNIONIZE YOUR BUILDING (AND HELP OTHERS UNIONIZE THEIRS) FOR SUPPORT OR TO JOIN THE TASKFORCE Berkeley Tenant Organizing Task Force Interest Form: unionize.berkeleytenants.org THE BERKELEY TENANT ORGANIZING TASK FORCE IS A PROJECT OF THE BERKELEY TENANTS UNION, EAST BAY DSA, AND THE OFFICE OF COUNCILMEMBER LUNAPARRA, DEDICATED TO ASSISTING TENANTS IN ORGANIZING TENANT UNIONS UNDER MEASURE BB. [Logos of the Berkeley Tenants Union, the Office of Berkeley City Council Member Cecilia Lunaparra, and the East Bay Democratic Socialists of America]

Unable to pay your rent or having trouble with your landlord? Unionize!

Most Berkeley tenants now have a legally-enforceable right to unionize and collectively bargain with their landlord! Go to unionize.berkeleytenants.org to start organizing with BTU and form your official tenant union!

DEFEND THE NEIGHBORHOOD BUILD TENANT POWER Membership Vote on Endorsing Prop 50 Berkeley Tenants Union Membership Meeting and Potluck Sunday, Sept. 21, from 4:00pm to 5:30pm Grassroots House (2022 Blake St, Berkeley) Sign-up for our emails: bit.ly/BerkeleyTenants

Join us September 21 to learn how to form a tenant union! We’ll also discuss our proposed ballot measure to tax landlords to fund social housing, vote on whether to endorse Prop 50, and more!

We hope to see you September 21 at Grassroots House. Berkeley tenants unite!

A middle-aged white man faces the camera while standing in a decrepit room, captioned “Landlord Figures He Can Pass Off Uninhabitable Shithole As ‘Great For Students,’” above The Onion’s logo.

Happy start of classes!

Don't let your landlord take advantage of you! Go to unionize.berkeleytenants.org to start unionizing and force your landlord to keep your home safe and clean!

America could simply repeal an old GOP law & build more housing right now.

But the Abundance Guys are instead selling a complex theory of zoning reforms - which have enriched developers but spectacularly failed to systematically transform housing markets where they've happened.

A middle-aged white man faces the camera while standing in a decrepit room, captioned “Landlord Figures He Can Pass Off Uninhabitable Shithole As ‘Great For Students,’” above The Onion’s logo.

Happy start of classes!

Don't let your landlord take advantage of you! Go to unionize.berkeleytenants.org to start unionizing and force your landlord to keep your home safe and clean!

Happy Labor Day!

Solidarity forever, for the union makes us strong!

California tenants living outside Alameda and Contra Costa counties should call @tenantstogether.bsky.social at 888-495-8020 for counseling (both for responding to evictions and for general assistance).

If a landlord threatens eviction for ANY reason, *immediately* email info@berkeleytenants.org with the subject line "I AM BEING EVICTED" so we can help. Because of extremely unfair legal deadlines for (even illegal) evictions, it's crucial to react ASAP. Do NOT wait to use our clinic for evictions.

Berkeley Tenants Union August 28, 2025 Counseling Clinic Intake **If your landlord threatens to evict you for ANY reason, immediately email info@berkeleytenants.org with the subject line "I AM BEING EVICTED" so we can provide you help ASAP. (California tenants out...

Are you unable to pay rent or having trouble with your landlord? Our next FREE counseling clinic with tenant attorneys for East Bay tenants is THURSDAY, August 28 at 3-5pm! The sign-up deadline is this Sunday, August 24 (i.e. FOUR days beforehand).

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BTU Chair @averyarbaugh.bsky.social speaks at @demsocialists.bsky.social Convention's tenant movement panel, with @latenantsunion.bsky.social, @triangletenantunion.org, Greater Austin Tenant Organizing (GATO), Puget Sound Tenants Union, and NYC DSA's (@socialists.nyc) Tenant Organizing Working Group

To Tackle Housing Crisis, These Organizers Want to First Change How City Hall Works Advocates in Bozeman, Montana, are using a once-in-a-decade chance to reshape their local government structure to create more equitable representation and, eventually, more affordable housing policy.

The Tenants United movement in Bozeman, Montana has pushed policy to restrict second-home vacation rentals, do less policing of homelessness, and set up publicly funded eviction legal defense.

Last summer, the movement scored a significant win.

boltsmag.org/montana...

Exclusive: Tech Execs and Venture Capitalists Spend Big to Help California YIMBY Kill Tenant Protections Tech executives and venture capitalists shell out nearly $425,000 to help California YIMBY kill tenant protections in California.

EXCLUSIVE: Tech executives and venture capitalists are funding California YIMBY's push to kill tenant protections.

Read all the eye-popping details!

DEFEND THE NEIGHBORHOOD BUILD TENANT POWER Come learn how to form a tenant union with BTU! Berkeley Tenants Union Membership Meeting and Potluck Sunday, July 20, from 4:00pm to 5:30pm Grassroots House (2022 Blake St, Berkeley) Sign-up for our emails: bit.ly/BerkeleyTenants

Join us Sunday to learn how to form a tenant union! Most Berkeley tenants now have a legally-enforceable right to unionize & collectively bargain with their landlord!

We’ll also discuss last weekend’s canvass, how the city council defunded affordable housing (and how we’re fighting back), and more!

Exclusive: Mayor Lurie unveils plan to eliminate RVs from San Francisco streets Under the mayor’s proposal, oversize vehicles would be restricted from parking on any city street for more than two hours at a time. Can he win approval for it?

6 of our 11 supervisors were SF YIMBY endorsed or appointed by an SF YIMBY endorsed mayor. All of them will almost certainly back this NIMBY mass displacement plan. That’s as good an illustration as any of why I’m not a YIMBY.

West Berkeley Tenant Rights Canvass! Help us spread the word about Measure BB changes to tenants rights, and the right to organize a tenants union! JULY 12TH 10:00AM UNTIL NOON CEDAR ROSE PARK, BERKELEY

Join us July 12 for a northwest Berkeley canvass to unionize tenants! You can RSVP at www.eastbaydsa.org/events/3679/...!

Virtual Tenant Rights Clinic A free clinic for all your tenants' rights questions.

Problems with your landlord? OTU's community counselors can help you learn your rights! Join us on Zoom for a virtual tenant clinic next Sunday from 3:00 to 5:00pm. OTU clinics are free and open to all Oakland tenants!

DEFEND THE NEIGHBORHOOD BUILD TENANT POWER Guest Speaker: Berkeley Rent Board Chair Soli Alpert Berkeley Tenants Union Membership Meeting and Potluck Sunday, June 15, from 4:00pm to 5:30pm Grassroots House (2022 Blake St, Berkeley) Sign-up for our emails: bit.ly/BerkeleyTenants

Join us this Sunday for our next membership meeting!

Our guest speaker will be Rent Board Chair @solialpert.bsky.social! He'll talk about regulatory changes to strengthen tenant unions in Berkeley, the effects of potential Section 8 cuts on evictions in Berkeley, and more!

Virtual Tenant Rights Clinic A free clinic for all your tenants' rights questions.

TOMORROW: Join OTU counselors at our virtual tenant clinic to learn your rights and get your questions answered! All of our clinics are free and open to all Oakland tenants. Register here:

Bernie Sanders, with @organizeworkers.bsky.social, is holding a training next Tuesday for you to learn how to organize your workplace 🙌

Berkeley Tenants Union informs residents of new rights from Measure BB The Berkeley Tenant Organizing Task Force, or BTOTF, offered a “Know Your Rights” training session April 30 educating tenants on the expansion of their bargaining power under Measure BB.

“The Berkeley Tenants Union, or BTU, collaborated with the Office of District 7 City Councilmember @CeciliaLunaparra.bsky.social and @DSAeastbay.bsky.social to highlight new ways Berkeley tenants can unionize [to] and negotiate for lower rent regarding livability concerns and lease violations.”

Berkeley Tenants Union May 28, 2025 Counseling Clinic Intake **If your landlord threatens to evict you for ANY reason, immediately email info@berkeleytenants.org with the subject line "I AM BEING EVICTED" so we can provide you help ASAP. (California tenants out...

Are you unable to pay rent or having trouble with your landlord? Our next FREE counseling clinic with professional tenant attorneys for East Bay tenants is WEDNESDAY, May 28 at 3-5pm! The sign-up deadline is this Sunday, May 25 (i.e. THREE days beforehand).