90.5 WESA s The Confluence for Monday, March 1, 2021
On today s program: PublicSource reporter Rich Lord explains why some tenant advocacy groups are looking for ways to grow renters’ political influence in his latest story about “Tenant Cities”; and the Pittsburgh Union of Regional Renters has been recruiting volunteers to help those experiencing evictions with everything from remembering their hearing date to filling out paperwork.
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An eviction moratorium ordered by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has been extended through March, but some tenant advocacy organizations want more than a rent freeze. They want the power dynamic between tenant and landlord altered. One way to make this happen, they say, is unionization.