Help Build the Movement for Tenants Rights: Join the Tenants Union!
Washington State tenants have won important legal protections, but these rights don't go far enough. Help build the movement to protect and expand tenants rights and make the promise of safe, healthy, affordable housing a reality: 
About the Tenants Union
Created in 1977 by volunteers, the Tenants Union of Washington State (TU) has built a dedicated membership base and steadfastly sustained grassroots social change organizing.
The TU challenges and transforms unjust housing conditions and housing policies through empowerment-based education, leadership development, and community organizing and tenant ownership.
Our work is grounded in a strong conviction that those facing housing problems must be the leaders of efforts to transform our own housing conditions and communities.
The TU has won substantial victories throughout the organization’s history. Some of our accomplishments include:
- Organized successful campaigns to preserve affordable housing in 8 subsidized apartment complexes.
- Created the first tenant-controlled low-income rental housing in the Northwest.
- Organized with tenants to bring a precedent-setting civil rights lawsuit to protect mothers of color who receive Section 8 vouchers from eviction.
- Mobilized to win federal legislation protecting tenants right to organize in subsized housig and to protect funding for housing programs.
- Among other legislative victories, we helped to pass:
- the Seattle Just Cause Eviction Ordinance
- Statewide protection for Section 8 tenants in project-based buildings
- a Right to Organize Ordinance for Seattle tenants
- a Tenant Relocation Assistance Ordinance for Seattle tenants
- a Landlord Licensing Law in Auburn
- and other local tenants-rights legislation
- We educate thousands of tenants every year to know and use our rights.