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Tenants from two Durham affordable housing communities publicly launched new tenant associations on Thursday, marking a necessary escalation in their collective effort to secure safer living conditions and stronger accountability from their landlord, DHIC.
NCTU and pro-tenant partners have filed suit in federal court to stop the rollback of a critical rule that gives tenants in HUD-assisted properties more notice in eviction filings.
More than half of Crystal Towers households have signed off on a demand letter to ASPIRE calling for binding protections for residents in the event of a sale or redevelopment of the public housing complex.
Tenants at Evergreen Ridge Apartments are going public with concerns about the mold infestation at the Asheville complex.Tenant organizers with the Asheville Area Tenant Union have been knocking doors and making connections so that residents dealing with the conditions can join together.
ASPIRE has prevented residents from meeting in common areas, threatened invited external organizers with bans from the property, dissolved the Crystal Towers Resident Council, and initiated eviction proceedings that are clearly retaliatory against a union leader.
Tenants claimed a major victory Monday as the Durham City Council unanimously voted in favor of a new ordinance that would criminalize the collection of rent by landlords overseeing dangerous and unlivable conditions. TTU members have been working for several months to secure this ordinance; attending multiple work sessions, gathering stories from their neighbors, driving a city-wide petition…
