Eugene Housing and Neighborhood Defense: Eviction defense training
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December 13, 2020
This training will cover the basics of evictions and eviction defense. We will outline how evictions work in Eugene, the different types of evictions we've seen (including illegal evictions), and finally, discuss the direct action we can take to defend ourselves and our neighbors from evictions.
The landlords and property managers by and large have the courts and the police working in their favor - anyone who has had a dispute with their landlord knows this well. We need to unite and organize tenants to fight back against exploitation. Tenants (especially if they're undocumented or in the first year of their lease) risk eviction with any action they take against their landlords - rent strikes, demonstrations outside property manager offices, even talking to neighbors to form a tenants union. Thus, we need to organize the capacity to defend ourselves and keep each other in our homes. Eviction defense is our tool to balance against the state power held by the landlord class.
This event will be a training conducted by renters in Eugene, with time for discussion and question/answer.
This event will be a training conducted by renters in Eugene, with time for discussion and question/answer.
This event is organized by Eugene Housing and Neighborhood Defense (Eugene HAND), an organization by and for renters in Eugene committed to uniting working class tenants to fight back against exploitation by landlords and property managers. We have prioritized in-person outreach (following COVID19 precautions of course), knocking on hundreds of doors in the past few months to chat with tenants about grievances they have had with their landlords or property managers. We have spent a lot of time listening to tenants, and found that there was interest in trainings like this