About the Tenants Union
The mission of the Tenants Union (TU) is to create housing justice through grassroots education, organizing and advocacy. Founded in 1977, the Tenants Union carries on a proud legacy of empowerment based education and powerful grassroots organizing. Our work creates concrete improvements in tenants’ living conditions and challenges and transforms unjust housing policies and practices. We achieve organizing victories through outreach, training, leadership development, strategic analysis, creative direct action and legislative advocacy.
The TU's work is grounded in the strong conviction that tenants must be the leaders of efforts to transform our housing conditions and communities. The work of the TU is led and supported by hundreds of members statewide. In our work the TU embraces the values of equality, equity, hope, sustainability, respect, grassroots leadership, dignity, direct action, civic courage, self-determination, anti-racism and anti-oppression.
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07/18/08: Take Action
Last Chance to Take Action on the National Housing Trust Fund
Tenants Union advocates: Please take action to help pass the National Housing Trust Fund: call toll-free 1-877-210-5351 and tell your representatives to support Housing Trust Fund.
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Support the National Housing Trust Fund
Call your representative today to voice support for the creation of a National Housing Trust Fund to provide affordable housing for very low-income households at 1-877-210-5351 and ask to be connected to the housing staffer in your representative’s office. If you don’t know who your Rep is, you can just give them your zip code and they will connect you.
Continue Reading...07/10/08: TU News
Welcome to Karen Lesley-Lloyd, TU Executive Director
The Tenants Union of Washington is excited to announce the hiring of a new executive director, Karen Lesley-Lloyd. The TU’s hiring committee is thrilled to have its thorough, thoughtful search come to such a successful conclusion.
Continue Reading...07/10/08: TU News
Washington State Department of Health Launches New Secondhand Smoke Web Site
In June, the Washington State Department of Health launched SmokeFreeWashington.com, a new online resource for issues related to secondhand smoke. The site is part of an ongoing effort by the Department of Health to promote awareness of the harmful effects of secondhand smoke and provide people with the tools they need to protect themselves and their loved ones.
Continue Reading...05/22/08: TU News
Seattle's Greenlake Motel
The recent shut-down notices received by residents of Seattle’s Greenlake Motel have raised many questions of when someone living in a motel is considered a tenant or not. Generally, residence in a hotel or motel is exempted from state Residential Landlord-Tenant Act coverage. There may be some situations, however, in which tenants living in hotels or motels are covered by state or local landlord-tenant laws. If you live in a hotel or motel and want information about what the law says, make sure to call the Tenants Union’s hotline at (206) 723-0500 on Mondays and Wednesday 3:00-6:00 pm or Thursdays from 12:00-4:00 pm or call Solid Ground at (206) 694-6767 on Monday, Wednesday, and Thursday from 10:30am – 4:30pm.
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