NC Newsline: “Affordable housing advocates say such victories are too few for North Carolina tenants, who they contend, are often up against unjust laws that leave them at the mercy of landlords.
The organizers of the new North Carolina Tenants Union (NCTU), which officially launched Tuesday, want to level the playing field. NCTU was created to help tenants fight displacements, win critical housing repairs, stop rapid rent increases, strengthen tenants’ rights and push local officials and state lawmakers to adopt housing rental policies and laws that are fair to tenants.
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The tenant-driven, statewide movement is currently made up of six local tenant unions and networks in Asheville, Charlotte, New Bern, New Hanover, Raleigh-Durham, and Winston-Salem.
MacLeod said the housing crisis won’t be solved without tenants at the center of the fight to bring about changes that ensure fairness in the landlord-tenant relationship.”