Fighting Back Against Rent
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Tenant Resources
Are you an individual tenant needing legal representation or other institutional support?
Head over to our Resources page to get started.
While the Puget Sound Tenants Union does provide Know Your Rights materials and workshops, we are not lawyers and understand that not all tenants can pursue legal strategies. However, regardless of the legal climate, tenants always have power together due to the fact they pay the landlord’s bills — not the other way around. The Puget Sound Tenants Union helps tenants leverage this power through collective demands, protests, and strikes against their landlord.
Each member of PSTU is a renter in Seattle sacrificing their time to organize the collective power in their building, neighborhood, city, and beyond.
Building Organizing
Let’s start talking to neighbors
PSTU helps tenants in the same building connect with each other and eventually take actions that get issues fixed. We call this forming a Tenant Association (TA).
A group chat for your building can be a good place to start! Door-to-door knocking, conversations in hallways, or posters in communal areas can help everyone learn all the issues in the building. Once we understand what we are fighting, we can start to take action: demands, confrontations, and more.
Don’t fight alone! Contact us to get in touch with a fellow PSTU organizer.
Community Organizing
The problem is bigger than your apartment
PSTU Locals are groups of tenants in the same neighborhood who support the Tenant Associations in their community and analyze what larger contradictions in their community keep housing insecure.
Locals hold events in their neighborhood to help build more shared community and meet any new people in the neighborhood with tenancy issues.
Find out about our upcoming events in our WhatsApp community
About Us
We are a member-run collective of tenants that organizes against rising rent, displacement, and eviction.
When we’re organized together in solidarity, we have the power to fight back against the landlords — and win!
Resources
Do you need information on tenants rights, legal resources, or rental assistance?
We have compiled a list of useful links and resources that may be of help to you.
Volunteer
We are always in need of help as we are independent, and completely run and funded by our volunteers.
Join us if you’d like to help with canvassing, research, translation, graphic design, and more!