• A Winning Campaign Housing advocates in Washington, D.C., marshaled four strategies for achieving inclusionary-zoning policies designed to protect affordability in a rapidly gentrifying city. (Spring, #149)
• The Purchase of a Lifetime The bank balked. Neighbors grumbled. But these poor tenants would not be swept away in the real estate boom. (Spring, #149)
• A Very High Stakes Deal The $5.4 billion sale of Manhattan's last middle-class enclave might have been prevented if there had been progressive policies in place. (Winter, #148)
• The Tenants Movement and Housers How the tenants movement of the 1970s and 1980s evolved into the housing and community development movement of today. (Nov/Dec 2005, #144)
• A Victory Over the Slumlords Tenants in Washington State organize and use the media to win relocation assistance when they are forced from their homes by dangerous living conditions. (Jul/Aug 2005, #142)
• A Guide for Tenants on Leadership and Building Control Tenants in Washington, DC use the Building by Building manual to build leadership and maybe buy their homes from shady landlords. (May/June 2005, #141)
• Advocates for Healthy Housing Environmental justice and tenant advocates are getting together to document lead, asthma and other hazards in their housing - and winning policy changes as a result. (Mar/Apr 2005, #140)
• Alabama Arise Fights for Tenant Protections An advocacy group moves into its second decade of trying to put the responsibilities of landlords and tenants into law. (Nov/Dec 2004, #138)
• No Place for Us Graduate students at the University of California, Irvine fight their administration's efforts to evict them from a trailer park. (Jul/Aug 2004, #136)
• Winning a War, but Losing the Battle Louisville tenants organize, with unexpected results. (Jan/Feb 2003, #127)
• Tenant Blacklisting  A cautionary tale by a New York City tenant, who fought for her rights in a court of law and found herself blacklisted by landlords around the city. (Jul/Aug 2002, #124)
• Vertical Integration Section 8 Collaborative Connects Tenant Organizing with Policy Advocacy (Sep/Oct 2001, #119)
• Rent Control in the New Millennium Rent control has been under such serious assault for so long, you might think it's diasppeared. Here's a round-up of where - and why - it survives. (May/June 2001, #117)
  
• The Decontrol Blues Cambridge, Massachusetts, has been a model of well-funded affordable housing development. But the repeal of rent control suggests that funding alone is not enough. (May/June 2001, #117)
• Don't Start Small Tenants organize for ownership (May/June 2001, #117)
• The Long Haul and the Short Haul Book Review of Squatting, Rent Strikes, and Land Struggles Worldwide (Sep/Oct 2000, #113)
• Homeowners, and Tenants Too By owning their houses, but renting their land, mobile home park residents face the challenges of homeowners and tenants at once, and often fall through the cracks of protections for either. (Jul/Aug 2000, #112)
• Tenant Organizing Wins One-for-One Replacement (Jan/Feb 2000, #109)
• "No Evictions. We Won't Move!" The Struggle to Save the I-Hotel, Excerpted from the book Roots of Justice. (Sep/Oct 1999, #107)
• Whatever Happened to the Tenants Movement? As the political and economic times changed, tenant organizing waned. But many groups continue to press for the needs of low-income tenants in unsubsidized housing. Can new leaders and collaborations put housing back into a progressive agenda? (May/Jun 1999, #105)
  
• Profile: Judy Nicastro, Running for city council on a housing platform, Judy Nicastro brings tenant issues to Seattle voters. (May/Jun 1999, #105)
• Review: Guides for Tenants, Landlords, and Neighbors (Nov/Dec 1997, #96)
• Taking Charge: Public Housing Tenants Organize Two national groups are organizing public housing tenants to bring their voices to the attention of the local authorities and the national scene. (Sep/Oct 1997, #95)
• A Winning Strategy New York State Tenants and Neighbors Coalition policy director Mike McKee reveals the secrets to winning the rent control battle. (Jul/Aug 1997, #94)
• I'm a Tenant and I Vote! A brilliant tenant organizing campaign kept New York State's rent control laws on the books. But, while the battle's won, the tenant losses were heavy and the war continues. (Jul/Aug 1997, #94)
• Rent Control Post Mortem Cambridge tenant advocates fight to keep rents affordable after rent control’s end in Massachusetts. (Jul/Aug 1997, #94)
• Tenderloin Senior Organizing Project (May/Jun 1997, #93)
• Profile: Tenant Self-Sufficiency Programs in St. Louis (May/Jun 1997, #93)
• Organizing to Build a Movement New York State Tenants and Neighbors (Mar/Apr 1996, #86)
• Organizing the New Tenants Movement (Nov/Dec 1995, #84)
• Massachusetts Defeats Rent Control After 25 years of winning battles, Massachusetts tenants finally lost the war. How? (Mar/Apr 1995, #80)
• Spotted Owl, Snail Darter and ...Rent Control Is rent control heading for extinction? An update on the few states where rent control still exists. (Mar/Apr 1995, #80)
• Profile: Ann Arbor Tenants Union One of the oldest tenant unions celebrates its twenty-fifth anniversary with activism and commitment. (Mar/Apr 1995, #80)
• ACORN Organizes Should public housing tenant organizations be part of the local Housing Authority or outside and independent of the authority? ACORN stands firmly for independence. (Sep/Oct 1994, #77)
• Holding Landlords Accountable Forcing landlords to make repairs has never been easy. It’s especially hard when the rules of bankruptcy channel rent to “creditors.” Baltimore’s Community Law Center convinced one Judge to name a landlord’s tenants as creditors, forcing needed repairs and service. (May/Jun 1994, #75)

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