Contribute to this campaign: Join the Tenants Union!
The Tenants Union is on the move, organizing tenants in Washington State for housing justice. We're winning important victories, but we're limited by our financial resources. Help build the movement to protect and expand tenants rights and make the promise of safe, healthy, affordable housing a reality:
Section 8 Tenant Organizing Project
The Section 8 Tenants’ Organizing Project is a nationally recognized organizing project formed in 1997 to mobilize tenants of privately owned HUD subsidized housing. Sweeping federal budget cuts and policy changes are threatening the homes and the futures of thousands of people who live in subsidized housing, have Section 8 assistance or are on waiting lists for affordable housing.
STOP has preserved 8 affordable housing complexes, home to about 400 families, which were slated to convert to market rate housing and was instrumental in passage of local and national protections for this housing. STOP is also organizing to hold back the tide of budget cuts that threaten to force families and disabled people off of the Section 8 Voucher Program.
Additional Information:- Saving Project-Based Section 8 Housing:“Project-based” Section 8 buildings are an important source of affordable housing, but these buildings are disappearing as landlords pull out of the program.
- Section 8 Tenants Organizing Manual:Information on organizing for housing justice with other Section 8 tenants
- Section 8 Tenants Rights:In addition to the laws which protect other Washington State tenants, Section 8 tenants have certain other rights granted by Federal law.