Housing policy in the United States has ignored renters for far too long. The result is a housing market that is both characterized by and cements deep racial and economic inequality. The result is homelessness! The model of subsidized homeownership for the middle class over nearly everything else has been an abject failure by every metric.

As Cea said, we can’t create or pass good policy without building power among those most impacted by the housing crisis.

From my perspective, tenant organizing is the housing movement; it’s the only way to have real solutions on housing. Policy doesn’t make movements, and housing policy especially is pretty simple. It’s 100 percent a question of political will.