Dispatches from the Threshold

This book is an essential document for this dystopian century, a powerful account of collective resistance, imagination, and thinking that can provide hope and illuminate possible futures.--Raquel Rolnik, former UN Special Rapporteur on adequate housing This collection illustrates the audacity of collective action in the face of our most difficult obstacle: insecurity. It captures the struggle for immediate relief and the gift these movements and their participants provide us all--a glimpse of more just, humane, and radical urban futures and the imagination, language, and tools to realize it.--Josh Akers, Urban Praxis A multi-point perspective like this is exactly what we've needed to understand the struggle for adequate housing. This work is a rich, collectively woven tapestry. It is not just a record of a unique and useful moment of crisis, but it is crammed with wisdom and experience. It is full of hope, insight, and vital lessons in how to have each other's backs.--Nick Bano, barrister and author of Against Landlords: How to Solve the Housing Crisis' The authors remind us that housing crises are one of many routinized catastrophes of capital, and yet reading this book is not to drown in crisis but to rise with the power of tenants. Read it, and get organized.--Astra Taylor, author of The Age of Insecurity: Coming Together As Things Fall Apart