diff --git a/content/session/rentstrikes.md b/content/session/rentstrikes.md index 8482b55..1c2a252 100644 --- a/content/session/rentstrikes.md +++ b/content/session/rentstrikes.md @@ -20,11 +20,9 @@ BARCELONA (ES): [Sindicat de Llogaters i llogateres di Barcellona (ES)](https:// GRAN CANARIAS (ES): [Sindicato de Inquilinas de Gran Canaria](https://sindicatodeinquilinasgc.noblogs.org/) -# OTHER NEWS +RENT STRIKE LONDON (UK): [London Renters’ Solidarity Group](https://docs.google.com/document/d/1xeuawLzeCM4CsWucPQlPIvy1z-qKwsvQqaVkI-ZKz4M/edit?fbclid=IwAR0AvyNnxCYK3eA9d87w5bLkpO_WNH79xEEIvsLGwnKJi44Z10en14KAF3M) -ITALY: - -A quick and growing independent movement is organizing the Italian rent strike. A huge telegram chat coordinates many territorial groups which are following people step by step. All [instructions](https://scioperodegliaffitti.noblogs.org/files/2020/04/ScioperoAffitti2020_materiali01042020_ENG.pdf) are shared and available on the [website](https://scioperodegliaffitti.noblogs.org/) and several jitsi call are sheduled. The interesting aspect is that the movement is addressing both tenants and owners with the scope to make banks pay the crisis and not people. +ITALY: A quick and growing independent movement is organizing the Italian rent strike. A huge telegram chat coordinates many territorial groups which are following people step by step. All [instructions](https://scioperodegliaffitti.noblogs.org/files/2020/04/ScioperoAffitti2020_materiali01042020_ENG.pdf) are shared and available on the [website](https://scioperodegliaffitti.noblogs.org/) and several jitsi call are sheduled. The interesting aspect is that the movement is addressing both tenants and owners with the scope to make banks pay the crisis and not people. ![](https://i.imgur.com/K78An8Z.jpg) @@ -32,18 +30,22 @@ Also the [ASSOCIAZIONI INQUILINI E ABITANTI](https://asia.usb.it/) Union (USB) h ![](https://i.imgur.com/fFJddSe.jpg) -The Tenants Union [Unione Inquilini](http://www.unioneinquilini.it/index.php?id=9039) has written an open letter to the Pope, demanding that the Vatican renounces to collect rents during the quarantine and makes available the empty housing units it owns for the homeless and the infected. The Vatican owns 20% of Italy's real estate assets (around 115.000 housing units, that is, 1 in 5 homes). - -Moreover, in Milan, the news portal [Off Topic](https://www.offtopiclab.org/) responded to the call of the municipality seeking empty flats to face the rising housing emergency in the city with an infographic detailing all of the 6489 empty Airbnb apartments currently available. The map was created by [Inside Airbnb](http://insideairbnb.com/about.htm), an independent, non-commercial set of tools and data that allows you to explore how Airbnb is really being used in cities around the world. - -![](https://pbs.twimg.com/media/EUrCoUGUYAAW3Kn?format=png&name=large) - LONDON (UK): The [London Renters Union](https://londonrentersunion.org/c19rentcrisis/?mc_cid=55962e70e7&mc_eid=849a8a3b8f) prepared a Q&A about tenants' rights during the Coronavirus pandemic and a template letter you can use to start conversations with landlords about the rent crisis (en español). BAY AREA, California: Bay Area residents are joining forces to call for a region-wide, complete with map and strike resources. [#BayAreaRentStrike](https://bayarearentstrike.org/) + +# OTHER NEWS + +Italy: The Tenants Union [Unione Inquilini](http://www.unioneinquilini.it/index.php?id=9039) has written an open letter to the Pope, demanding that the Vatican renounces to collect rents during the quarantine and makes available the empty housing units it owns for the homeless and the infected. The Vatican owns 20% of Italy's real estate assets (around 115.000 housing units, that is, 1 in 5 homes). + +Moreover, in Milan, the news portal [Off Topic](https://www.offtopiclab.org/) responded to the call of the municipality seeking empty flats to face the rising housing emergency in the city with an infographic detailing all of the 6489 empty Airbnb apartments currently available. The map was created by [Inside Airbnb](http://insideairbnb.com/about.htm), an independent, non-commercial set of tools and data that allows you to explore how Airbnb is really being used in cities around the world. + +![](https://pbs.twimg.com/media/EUrCoUGUYAAW3Kn?format=png&name=large) + + # COMMENTARIES (critical thinking and historical analysis pieces - also not corona-specific, but about the issue in focus)