Join tenants from across the District and beyond to learn about the past and future of tenants' rights. The landlord lobby is telling the DC government that the rent is too low. That tenants' rights are too strong. That it's too hard to evict in this city. They want to take away the rights that have allowed us to fight to stay in our homes for decades. But we're ready to fight back, and we're launching a citywide campaign to defend our tenants rights, from the right to organize to the right to collectively bargain under TOPA.
We'll hear from organizers about what the fight ahead looks like. Former staffers from Washington Inner-city Self Help (WISH), which organized from 1978–2003, will talk about how they organized thousands of tenants to improve building conditions and exert control of their own housing. And tenants from buildings currently organizing with Stomp Out Slumlords will present on how current attacks on tenants' rights have affected their organizing. And we'll officially launch our citywide campaign to fight back the landlord lobby.