Ben Mabie is an editor and organizer based in Brooklyn. A member of the Crown Heights Tenant Union, he works for the NewsGuild of New York, IFPTE Local 98, and Dan Denvir’s podcast The Dig; he also cohosts Fragile Juggernaut, a Haymarket podcast on the meaning of the Congress of Industrial Organizations.
In Abolish Rent: How Tenants Can End the Housing Crisis, two cofounders of the LA Tenants Union offer an account of housing, tenancy, the connections between labor and renters’ organizing, and what the authors call the “centuries-long war on tenants.”