Tara Raghuveer

@taraghuveer

Tenant Organizer
@TenantFed
@KCTenants

Kansas City, MO Joined September 2009

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Tara Raghuveer @taraghuveer Jul 27, 2024

Imagine poor and working class tenants. Now imagine them organizing, across buildings, neighborhoods, in encampments, citywide. Imagine them unionizing. Imagine those unions linking, sharpening each other, a different kind of power. You’re not just imagining, it’s happening 😌

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Tara Raghuveer @taraghuveer 23h

Housing is one of those issues where the "solutions" that sound good often entrench us in the existing system and its myriad failures.

We can avoid this by asking questions like: Does this increase or decrease the control that profit-seekers have over our homes?

Tara Raghuveer @taraghuveer 2d

In May @SamForstag stood with trailer park tenants when they launched the first Montana rent strike in 50 years. Tenants stood with Sam in the midterms, and now he’s going to Congress. A smokejumper and union man, Sam is the first Dem to represent Montana in the House since 1979.

Tara Raghuveer @taraghuveer 5d

In this market, a wage increase may as well be a direct transfer to our landlords. There is no “living wage” that’s truly livable in an unregulated rental market. Housing is the biggest bill in most people’s budgets. Economic populism requires a plan on housing.

More Perfect Union Verified account @MorePerfectUS 5d

NEW: Economic populism helped deliver impressive victories for Democrats across the nation. But those gains could be fickle and short-lived or long-lasting and durable.

To keep and maintain working class majorities, here’s 5 specific ideas for what they need to do next.

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Tara Raghuveer @taraghuveer 5d

As of today @RepMaxineWaters has announced she'll run again for Chair of what was the Financial Services Committee. She proposes a new name, "Committee on Housing and Financial Services" to "put housing first," and promises a bold agenda focused on affordability, accountability.