We’re told our housing struggles are a crisis, that something indeed has gone wrong. As of 2023, institutional investors manage $1.7 trillion worth of real-estate globally, a figure which increased by a trillion dollars over a decade. International capital is coming for our homes, and tenants must fight back, says Jacob Stringer.
Renters Unite! offers an overview of both the economic terrain and strategic challenges faced by the growing tenant movement across the Global North. From Los Angeles to Edinburgh, tenants are organizing to resist the most immediate ills of rentier capitalism. Stringer maps out the resurgent tenants movement through inspiring stories of eviction resistance, block rent strikes and community-organized anti-gentrification campaigns.
