"At a time when discussions of the housing crisis are dominated by the state, non-profits, and legal decision-makers, Renoviction and Resistance in the Capitalist City rejects reformist efforts as a failed experiment and urges tenants to count on themselves. Clear-eyed and unsparing, Webber and Zigman expose the systems that protect landlord profit and make clear that organized resistance, and not bureaucracy, is the way forward to defend against displacement. An important and timely intervention in one of the defining struggles of our time." - Kevin Laforest, community legal clinic lawyer " Renoviction and Resistance in the Capitalist City offers an alternative and critical understanding of the increasingly violent practice of renoviction based on tenants' real life and experiences. It reminds us of how Canadian policy facilitates state-sanctioned displacement, serves private interests, and aims to increase landlords' profit." - Collectif de Recherche de d'Action sur l'Habitat (CRACH), Montréal "A crucial guide to the class struggle that exists in the home, not just the workplace. Renoviction and Resistance in the Capitalist City is an accessible and indispensable handbook on the strength of autonomous tenant organizing and the weakness of relying on legalistic and non-profit approaches." - Mike Gouldhawke, contributor to Briarpatch and the Yellowhead Institute.
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