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: 
Tenants Union Programs
The Tenants Union has four integrated programs:
- the Justice in South Seattle Project
- the Section 8 Tenants’ Organizing Project
- the Tenant Ownership Project
- the Education Program.
Justice in South Seattle Project
In Southeast Seattle, where more than two-thirds of the residents are people of color, tenants are facing the city’s most severe housing issues. The Justice in South Seattle Project is a leadership development, education and organizing effort focused on remedying injustices in housing that are rooted in racism, xenophobia and classism.
Section 8 Tenants 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.
Tenant Ownership Project
In 200?, a multi-lingual and multi-cultural group of dedicated tenants at the Benson East Apartments in Kent organized with the Tenants Union to take control of their housing by purchasing their apartment complex from their landlord. This landmark victory was the first tenant ownership project in the Northwest.
Tenant Education Program
The Tenants’ Union Education Program helps tenants to get the knowledge and skills to keep themselves and their families safely housed. Tenants in Washington have no government agency to rely on to enforce the laws; instead “self-help” remedies are written into the law for tenants to enforce ourselves. The TU provides empowerment-based education and assistance to help tenants learn their rights and take action to resolve housing problems.