Invest in tenant leadership from the ground up in 2025 and 2026!

Dear supporters - Thank you for all of your support of the Rent Is Too Damn High since 2023. With your help, we've been able to:

Hold a historic demonstration of renters at the state capitol, the largest assembly of Michigan renters in decades
Build a statewide coalition of 50 member groups and counting
Strengthen local housing organizing in Lansing, Detroit, Ann Arbor, Grand Rapids, Pontiac, and other communities around the state.
End discrimination against renters based on their source of income.

Despite our progress, the landlord lobby is still powerful at the state capitol, and they were able to block our major demands from passing in the 2023-2024 legislative session.

The answer, for 2025 and 2026, is for all of us to deepen our local tenant organizing wherever we live. We need to be more numerous, more organized, and even more focused. We need to form tenant associations at the building level, and tenant unions at the city-wide and regional levels. We must become a thorn in the side of unscrupulous landlords and their political allies. And we need to equip more tenants to run for local office and win.

Please make a donation today. All current donations are going to support leadership development and base-building among tenants in the city of Detroit.

The Rent is Too Damn High

Building power among renters across Michigan

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