The Tenant Association

Latino USA

Futuro Media and PRX

Society & Culture

4.9 • 3.7K Ratings

🗓️ 12 November 2024

⏱️ 26 minutes

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Summary

This week, Latino USA brings you the first episode of The Tenant Association, produced by Los Angeles Public Press.

The series follows a group of tenants who came together and fought back against their landlord. It’s a story about neighbors—elderly, young, immigrant, working class renters. Many of them are Latine and Asian and had lived for decades in an apartment complex in LA’s Chinatown. Until they got a rent increase that was basically an eviction notice… and decided to fight to stay in their homes. They’ve become a political force to be reckoned with, and changed what we think is possible for renters in Los Angeles. The tenants of Hillside Villa have been fighting for six years, and they’re not done.

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0:00.0	Hey, dear listener, it's Mariano Hossam.
0:09.7	So today we're going to bring you a story about people who live together and how they
0:13.9	organize together.
0:15.7	This is from a series called The Tenet Association, produced by Los Angeles Public Press.
0:22.2	It tells the story of a group of neighbors, many of them Latinos and Latinas,
0:27.1	living in an apartment complex in L.A.'s Chinatown.
0:30.9	It's called Hillside Villa.
0:33.6	The series follows these working-class neighbors in their fight against their landlord,
0:39.9	who dramatically raises their rent in what looks like a strategy to evict them.
0:45.9	It's a fight that extended over six long years.
0:49.9	Here's the first episode of the Tenant Association.
0:56.1	We're in the courtyard of an apartment building on a hill at the top of Chinatown.
1:02.6	We have one more thing we need to do.
1:05.6	Can we have everybody who's gotten a three-day notice come up?
1:09.4	The courtyard is full of people from all over L.A.
1:12.6	People walk up to a small stone picnic table in the middle of the crowd.
1:16.6	They're young and old, Latino and Chinese.
1:20.6	And then, one by one, they light their eviction notices on fire.
1:30.3	You may be wondering why we have a picture of this guy over here,
1:34.3	why he has an orange in front of him,
1:36.3	and why there's a little kettle here.
1:38.3	Jenny's going to let you know.
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