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07/28/2023

🚨‼️Tenants at Preservation Square are being illegally evicted 🚨‼️McCormack Baron Companies is pushing low income Black tenants to grease their slimy pockets. BLACK LOW INCOME RESIDENTS are the reason there even IS a McCormack Baron exists!!

We stand in support of tenants and we urge our followers to do the same. Follow the instructions 👇

01/20/2021

January 18, 2021 President-Elect Joseph R. Biden Dr. Rochelle Walensky Incoming Director Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) To: President-Elect Biden & Incoming Director Walensky, We are writing to urge you to take immediate action to protect tens of millions of American fa

04/24/2020

⏰ ⏰ ACTION ALERT⏰ ⏰

The City of St. Louis is proposing to cut the Affordable Housing budget by $1.6 million. This will eliminate rental assistance, rapid re-housing, eviction prevention and home repair.

Give testimony today at 10am (the only day!).

Join on zoom https://zoom.us/j/94567473851
Or call-in
+13126266799,,94567473851 #

Let them know that:
1) It is federally required to fund the trust at least $5 million so DON'T CUT THE FUNDING
2)Housing is public health an we have to keep families in their homes safe during COVID-19
3) Lastly, share how this will affect you, your family and friends

Rental assistance, rapid re-housing, eviction prevention, home repair, tenant education.

We learned today that these are among the dozens of affordable housing programs that the City of St. Louis is proposing 24% funding cuts for in FY2021 (beginning July 1st).

In response to COVID-19, the Affordable Housing Trust Fund is now more important than ever. Housing is public health.

There is one opportunity to give virtual public testimony this Friday at 10a and speak about why affordable housing matters in St. Louis.

https://www.stlouis-mo.gov/events/eventdetails.cfm?Event_ID=23472

03/27/2020

Due to COVID-19 crisis folks are losing jobs or are forced to stay home to prioritize their health. If you are concerned about not being able to pay rent Apr 1 or May 1, fill out the survey to get connected to a national solution to .

Are You Concerned About Being Able To Pay Your Rent Or Mortgage On April 1st?
You Are Not Alone.

Millions of us have already lost our income and are trying to figure out how we'll stay healthy and housed. The coronavirus has swept the U.S. leaving no one's life untouched. In a widespread act of solidarity, we are exercising physical distancing and, for those of us who have housing, our homes have become sanctuaries protecting us from illness. Yet in the next week, many of us will be unable to pay our rent, utilities or mortgages. Somehow we are still expected to pay rent as if it’s business as usual.

It's not.

That’s why on April 1st people across the country will withhold their rent, utility payments, and mortgages. Not because they want to but because they have to. That’s why NOW is the time for Universal Rent Suspension and to guarantee safe, healthy homes for all people now!

If you’re wondering how to make ends meet or have legal or financial questions about withholding your rent: https://bit.ly/CancelRent

03/18/2020

We need your help
Call and email the presiding judge to STOP all evictions!
The Sheriff said he was ordered 20-30 evictions today.
HALT all evictions!

🛑🛑🛑ACTION ALERT: Homes for All St. Louis has been advised that the Sheriff is still processing evictions for non-public housing as of TODAY. They were not aware of the eviction moratorium published by the city despite the Sheriff's signature. We were advised they "take direction from the Supreme Court, not the Mayor."🛑🛑🛑

🛑🛑🛑The presiding judge is Judge Rex M. Burlison. He can be reached at 314-622-4313 or [email protected]. Let him know the courts must act IMMEDIATELY to cease all evictions!🛑🛑🛑

12/05/2019

❗❗Day 5❗❗

In the words of Meek Mills
💎"I used to pray for times like this to rhyme like this. So I had to grind like that to shine like this"💎

Today was the final day of of the rent picket and Southwest Crossing Tenants Association made headlines and their efforts are moving their neighbors and public officials.

Tenants are planning and plotting and won't let up until they can truly say "HOME SWEET HOME!"

🏠🏠🏠

If you want to continue to support please DM or email [email protected] to participate in canvassing. If you are a tenant at other TEH properties call 314-252-8536.

ST. LOUIS - Some residents of the Southwest Crossing apartment complex in the Carondelet neighborhood of south St. Louis hope ongoing protests bring about better living conditions. They’ve been holding daily demonstrations outside the complex and are asking residents not to pay their rent to T.E.H...

12/01/2019

⚠️The Rent Strike is HERE...⚠️
❗We hit the streets in solidarity with the Southwest Crossing Tenant's Association against corporate slumlord T.E.H. Realty.❗

🗣️We need YOU to Help hold down the picket line 🗣️
------7851 Bandero Dr-------

SHIFTS are 9am-11:30am OR 11:30a-2p Monday-Thursday
👉 Sign up for a shift here 👉 http://bit.ly/SWXpickett

✊🏾 Demand #5 ✊🏾
We demand to be heard, and not silenced or intimidated

If you are a tenant and want to join the strike call 314-252-8536

⚠️The Rent Strike is HERE...⚠️
❗We hit the streets in solidarity with the Southwest Crossing Tenant's Association against corporate slumlord T.E.H. Realty.❗

🗣️We need YOU to Help hold down the picket line 🗣️
------7851 Bandero Dr-------

SHIFTS are 9am-11:30am OR 11:30a-2p Monday-Thursday
👉 Sign up for a shift here 👉 http://bit.ly/SWXpickett

✊🏾 Demand #5 ✊🏾
We demand to be heard, and not silenced or intimidated

If you are a tenant and want to join the strike call 314-252-8536

Photo cred Richard Reilly

11/30/2019

⚠️The Rent Strike Countdown continues...⚠️

1 DAY❗❗ until we hit the streets in solidarity with the Southwest Crossing Tenant's Association against corporate slumlord T.E.H. Realty.

🗣️Help hold down the picket line!! 🗣️
------7851 Bandero Dr-------
-----Sunday, December 1st at 10am-----
👉 Sign up for a shift here 👉 http://bit ly/SWXpickett

Here's a couple of the tenants' demands. 👀 Check out our previous posts for the full list.

✊🏾 Demand #4 ✊🏾
We demand TEH value our time and space going forward by ensuring a responsive and skilled on-site staff. This includes a 24 hour maintenance hotline!

⚠️The Rent Strike Countdown continues...⚠️

1 DAY❗❗ until we hit the streets in solidarity with the Southwest Crossing Tenant's Association against corporate slumlord T.E.H. Realty.

🗣️Help hold down the picket line!! 🗣️
------7851 Bandero Dr-------
-----Sunday, December 1st at 10am-----

👉 Sign up for a shift here 👉 http://bit ly/SWXpickett

Here's a couple of the tenants' demands. 👀 Check out our previous posts for the full list.

✊🏾 Demand #4 ✊🏾
We demand TEH value our time and space going forward by ensuring a responsive and skilled on-site staff. This includes a 24 hour maintenance hotline!

11/27/2019

5 DAYS!

🕰️ 🕰️ COUNTDOWN TO RENT STRIKE AGAINST SLUMLORD T.E.H. REALTY🕰️ 🕰️

✊🏾DEMAND 1✊🏾:

Southwest Crossing Tenant's Association demands an immediate stop in the collection of rent until the listed demands are met, or until an arrangement satisfactory to the Southwest Crossing Tenants’ Association is reached, and that all pending evictions are waived immediately.

1) 🗣️Join us Sunday, December 1 at 10a at 7851 Bandero Dr for the rent picket🗣️
2) Share this post broadly

11/26/2019

🚨RENT STRIKE AGAINST HORRIFIC CONDITIONS🚨
🚨T.E.H. REALTY 🚨

11/22/2016

We are officially a recognized student org: fil:///C:/Users/satia/OneDrive/Socialist%20Alternative/Socialist%20Students%20UMSL%20Recognized%20Status%20Letter.pdf

10/10/2016

http://cinemastlouis.org/sliff/2016/agents-of-change

Who's up for a Revolutionary Film?!

Nov. 4 As the civil-rights, Black Power, and anti-Vietnam War movements made national headlines in the late 1960s, another, less-known struggle for inclusion was taking place on college campuses. Exemplified by protests at San Francisco State and Cornell University (with its iconic image of black st...