Why we formed a tenant association?

Sometimes tenants rights can be enforced through
simple communication with a landlord,
Sometimes individually through social, civil and legal action,
Other times it takes the action of an organized group of
tenants to make their voices heard.

Individually, knowing the law is not always enough to protect the tenant’s rights to decent housing at an affordable price.

Lincoln Westmoreland One tenants organized with each other to use collective political, economic, and social influence to overcome recurring problems.

We organized because we agree that an issue/problem warrant collective actions in order to address and eventually solve that issue or problem.

We basically want to try to work together for a common goal, to make our lives and living situations better.

All humans will agree if there is a problem that a single tenant thinks is serious, others will share that same concern. Some common rental housing issues that warrant working together are:

1. Threat of loss of affordable housing.
2. Shared repairs issues among neighbors.
3. Poor management; bad record-keeping, abusive & retaliatory behavior by management, privacy violations.
4. Emergency repairs: loss of essential services such as running water, hot water, electricity, or sanitary facilities.
5. Loss of heat or inadequate heating.
6. Utility shutoffs due to landlord nonpayment.

Why would you form a tenant association?