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Tracy Rosenthal

Los Angeles, New York, United States
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writer and organizer • Abolish Rent from Haymarket Books • The New Republic, The Nation, Hammer & Hope, and elsewhere

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Tracy Rosenthal’s Journalist Portfolio

How Racist Policies Destroyed Public Housing and Created the American Suburbs

How Racist Policies Destroyed Public Housing and Created the American Suburbs

The history of housing policy is often told from the perspective of its winners, as the democratization of ho…

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Different Encampments, Same Police

Different Encampments, Same Police

To clear universities of student protesters, administrators and police borrowed from a ready-made political p…

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The University of California Is Also a Landlord

The University of California Is Also a Landlord

If McDonald's is a real estate company that sells hamburgers, the U.C. system is a real estate company that s…

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The Los Angeles City Council Scandal Is Evidence of a Long War on Tenants

The Los Angeles City Council Scandal Is Evidence of a Long War on Tenants

A leaked tape recording council members' racist slurs demonstrates the deep alliance between real estate inte…

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Inside LA's Homeless Industrial Complex

Inside LA's Homeless Industrial Complex

Just 7 percent of the people in Los Angeles's Echo Park encampment found permanent housing after it was clear…

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The Enduring Fiction of Affordable Housing

The Enduring Fiction of Affordable Housing

These public-private partnerships skate by on their complexity and branding, but they undermine a future wher…

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New Yorkers won a rent freeze. But we can't stop there.

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By Tracy Rosenthal
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Sumathy Kumar,Tracy Rosenthal There is so much more to be done to seize power from landlords and real estate directly. Last year, New Yorkers—70 percent of them tenants—put a democratic socialist in Gracie Mansion. Last month, we froze the rent. Thanks to a 7–1 vote by New York City's Rent Guidelines Board, 2.4 million rent-stabilized tenants will be able to claim one- and two-year leases with 0 percent rent increases starting October 1. Organized tenants made this victory possible.
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New Yorkers Won a Rent Freeze. But We Can’t Stop There.

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By Sumathy Kumar, Tracy Rosenthal
| The Nation Verified
Activism / July 14, 2026 New Yorkers Won a Rent Freeze. But We Can’t Stop There. There is so much more to be done to seize power from landlords and real estate directly. Ad Policy Attendees react during a vote by the Rent Guidelines Board in New York, on Thursday, June 25, 2026. (Adam Gray / Bloomberg via Getty Images) Last year, New Yorkers—70 percent of them tenants—put a democratic socialist in Gracie Mansion. Last month, we froze the rent. Organized tenants made this victory possible.
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Immigration Raids at This Home Depot Got More Aggressive but Less Effective. The LA Tenants Union Knows Why.

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By Tracy Rosenthal
| Portside
Immigration Raids at This Home Depot Got More Aggressive but Less Effective. The LA Tenants Union Knows Why. Published November 24, 2025 Arturo had only ever seen agents at the border before, never in Los Angeles. But on Friday, June 6, the Department of Homeland Security descended on a Home Depot near MacArthur Park. As on any other morning, Arturo had arrived at the store to wait alongside more than a hundred jornaleros for a day, or even a few hours, of construction work.
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