2: How to Form a Tenant Union

So you want to build a tenant association, but don’t know how? Sometimes it takes just one person to get things going. At Hillside Villa, that person was Luisa Ramirez. We’re gonna show you, step by step, how Luisa and her neighbors built their tenant association. How they held their first meeting right under management’s nose; how they successfully lobbied their council member; and how they paid an early-morning wake-up call to their landlord in Malibu... after he refused to sign a deal that would save their housing.