Tucson Tenants Union

03/25/2025

🏠💥 THIS SATURDAY: Join the Fight to DRIVE SLUMLORDS OUT OF SOUTH TUCSON!
📍 Arizona Motel | 11AM–1PM
We’re building power to:
🔨 Confront bad landlords
🔥 Train tenant organizers
⚖️ Push bold tenant laws
Bring your neighbors, your stories, and your fire. Food & solidarity provided. Can’t come?DM us—we’ll plug you in.
👉 Share this. Our voice grows with every tenant.


🏠💥ESTE SÁBADO: ¡Únete para EXPULSAR A LOS SLUMLORDS DE SOUTH TUCSON!
📍 Arizona Motel | 11AM–1PM
Construyendo poder para:
🔨 Enfrentar a caseros abusivos
🔥 Capacitar organizadores inquilinos
⚖️ Exigir leyes que nos protejan
Trae a tus vecinos, tus historias y tu determinación. Habrá comida y solidaridad. ¿No puedes venir? Escríbenos—te conectamos.
👉 Reenvía esto. Nuestra voz crece con cada inquilino.

02/12/2025

📕This Sunday, 2/16 at 11am
At the Global Justice Center
225 E 26th St

Join TTU for discussion of the book
“Abolish Rent: How Tenants Can End The Housing Crisis” by LA Tenants Union co-founders Tracy Rosenthal and Leonardo Vilchis .

At this meeting, we’ll cover Chapters 3-5. We’ll read some key excerpts, and then a conversation on the content. Hard copies are available for purchase online from Haymarket Books .

📈Rent drives millions into debt, despair, and onto the streets. The social cost of rent is too damn high. Written for anyone fed up with the permanent housing crisis, complicit politicians, and real estate greed, Abolish Rent dissects our housing system from the perspective of those it immiserates. Through brisk, unequivocating analysis and striking stories of resistance, it shows us how tenants can, through organizing and collective action, finally rebalance the scales.

02/12/2025

THIS SATURDAY - JOIN US FOR OUR GENERAL ASSEMBLY
10:30am-12pm at the Global Justice Center
📍225 E 26th St
AND THEN TO RALLY
📍Armory Park, 222 S 5th Ave at 1pm
Uniting against immigration raids and deportations of our community members!

Tenants are not alone in our struggles against our landlords - don’t let them divide us with fear, anger, or discouragement!

Don’t let the rich and their right-wing agenda convince you that the crises we face as tenants are because of immigrants in our community.
We reject the racist fear-mongering that would turn neighbor against neighbor - an attack on one of us is an attack on us all!

The tenants united will never be defeated!

01/14/2025

📆Saturday, January 18th
⏰1pm-3pm
📍Global Justice Center 225 E. 26th St

Come to our general meeting!
Tenants ready to fight back against the ruling classes of rich capitalists and landlords, come together to strategize and support each other in organizing with our communities!

Which strategic paths forward can we take - as individuals, by associations, and by the union as a whole?
We build relationships as community defense, and will ground our meeting on how that relates to our tenant organizing efforts amidst rising crises and repression.

We also encourage members to attend the organizing preparation meeting which will be held at the same location, at 10am - for the January 20th “We Fight Back” demonstration that tenants union members will be taking part in.

01/03/2025

12/06/2024

📕 Join TTU for a new Book Club reading “Abolish Rent: How Tenants Can End The Housing Crisis” by LA Tenants Union co-founders Tracy Rosenthal and Leonardo Vilchis . At this meeting, we’ll cover the Introduction and Chapters 1-2. We’ll read some key excerpts, and then have a group discussion on the content. Hard copies are available for purchase online from Haymarket Books .

Rent drives millions into debt, despair, and onto the streets. The social cost of rent is too damn high. Written for anyone fed up with the permanent housing crisis, complicit politicians, and real estate greed, Abolish Rent dissects our housing system from the perspective of those it immiserates. Through brisk, unequivocating analysis and striking stories of resistance, it shows us how tenants can, through organizing and collective action, finally rebalance the scales.

10/17/2024

🏠 Struggling to pay rent?
Seeking to better your living conditions? 🪳
Needing to defend your rights as tenants? ⚖️

Join the Tenant Union at our general assembly this Saturday, October 19th from 1pm - 3pm
At the Global Justice Center 🌍
🌵 in South Tucson.

Enjoy food and refreshments 🌮
hear from neighbors, and take action to organize for our homes and our community! ❤️

Childcare may be available by request.

This month hear from our allied organization Casa Maria about how we can support the Slumlords Out of South Tucson campaign and other local efforts. 🥾💥🪳

We will also be launching our Union’s internal 📖 book study - reading Abolish Rent by two cofounders of LA Tenants Union!

Meet with other tenants organizing with their neighbors around town for better living conditions and against landlord abuses.

09/17/2024

🏠 Struggling to pay rent? Seeking to better your living conditions? 🪳Needing to defend your rights as tenants? ⚖️

⛲️Join the Tenant Union at our general assembly this Saturday, from 11am-1pm
At the Barrio Blue Moon Garden🌛
🌵 Next to Tucson House

Enjoy some refreshments🍍 hear from neighbors, and take action to organize for our homes and our community! ❤️

Childcare may be available by request.

08/15/2024

Saturday, August 17th
9am - 2pm
El Pueblo Center, 101 W Irvington Rd, Bldg 9
Come learn with Sugarhill Community Land Trust (CLT), Pima County CLT, Tucson CLT, Barrios Unidos LT, and Regeneración.
Hosted by Regeneración & Southwest Folklife Alliance.

This month we will be observing our General Assembly and instead encouraging all members and interested tenants to attend this Symposium on community land trusts! Land trusts are an important legal strategy to understand in the tenant power movement.
However, there are many factors that affect whether tenant acquisition of land is a possibility - and there are other components to decommodification of land and housing that we should learn about and consider.
This is not to say that decommodification either can or should be the sole priority of legislative tactics to support tenant organizing.
The tenant movement’s strategies will shift with material changes. While we fight harassment, eviction, and displacement, tenant ownership feels financially out of reach for many of us - but this symposium will give us a chance to see living examples of others who have been able to take that struggle for our homes and our land in that direction.

Join us and be sure to register!
Registration is free and food can only be guaranteed to those who RSVP.

07/17/2024

JULY GENERAL ASSEMBLY

Saturday 7/20 @ 1pm
2509 N Country Club
520-333-5799

Are you feeling discouraged, angered, or fearful about your housing situation? You are not alone! There are many tenants around you struggling, even if your landlord makes it seem like you are the only one. Don’t let fear win you over! Join with other tenants because together, we are stronger!

Unite with other tenants and tenant unions state and nationwide to build a movement of millions that is powerful enough to win rent control for all and tenant and community control of our housing and land.

Request for support with childcare and transportation if needed.

06/10/2024

Saturday 6/15 @ 1pm
2509 N Country Club
520-333-5799

Are you feeling discouraged, angered, or fearful about your housing situation? You are not alone! There are many tenants around you struggling, even if your landlord makes it seem like you are the only one. Don’t let fear win you over! Join with other tenants because together, we are stronger!

Unite with other tenants and tenant unions state and nationwide to build a movement of millions that is powerful enough to win rent control for all and tenant and community control of our housing and land.

Request for support with childcare and transportation if needed.