Tenant Organizations

These organizations are mostly volunteer, operated by people committed to helping tenants with their on-going problems. You can join them and assist in their campaign, or start your own, and they will be glad to help you get started. Someone has to speak up and get things going. The landlords are very well organized and well-funded, but tenants have the numbers to show up at the polls to change the politicians in office and bring laws into effect.

Scope	Organization	Focus
Nationwide	TenantNet	National organization to advise tenants of their legal rights and news about tenant related events
	Shelterforce	National tenant organizing and news organization
Statewide	Acorn	Statewide Tenant organization, Just Cause Eviction, Rent Control
	SRO Student Renter's Orgn.	UCLA-based student renters' rights group
	Housing California	Factual resource on housing issues
Local	Coalition for Economic Survival	Tenant organizing assistance for buildings and larger
	Glendale Tenant Association	Glendale's organization
	Affordable Housing Action	Pasadena's organization
	Santa Monicans for Renters Rights	Deals with broad range tenant issues in Santa Monica
	San Francisco Tenants' Union	Deals with broad range tenant issues in San Francisco
	Just Cause Oakland	Oakland's tenant organization

If you want to see how your local Assembly legislators voted on the important housing bills, click here, for the report from Housing California [Acrobat pdf file].