How We Win: Our Vision of Change

We believe that housing is a human right, and that our state and local governments must take action to ensure that every Rhode Islander has the safe and dignified housing they deserve. That's why we are fighting to stabilize the cost of rent, to build permanently affordable social housing, and to protect renters from unjust treatment by their corporate landlords.

Making these policy goals a reality requires building a working-class mass movement of organized tenants taking on and winning big fights with their exploitative corporate landlords. That's why we are organizing the Rhode Island Tenants Union, a statewide organization of tenants who are fighting to ensure that all tenants have a say over their housing conditions. When tenants stand and fight together, we can win the protections and stability that we need and deserve.

In order to win our vision, we:

• ORGANIZE at the local level -- neighborhood by neighborhood -- to build power across the state;

• MOBILIZE ordinary people who have never thought of themselves as political organizers;

• EMPOWER members with the knowledge, skills, and relationships needed to become effective agents of change;

• enact a CULTURE of solidarity across difference, developing new leaders, and building community power.