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43 Yale L. & Pol'y Rev. 1 (2024-2025)

handle is hein.journals/yalpr43 and id is 1 raw text is: YALE LAW & POLICY REVIEW Tenant Union Law Greg Baltz* Tenant unions organize rent strikes, compel landlords to collectively bargain, orchestrate mass eviction defense networks, and even take control of buildings. Although there is no overarching statutory or regulatory framework detailing the rights and obligations of tenant unions, there is a web of intersecting laws governing relationships among tenants, their unions, landlords, lenders, developers, and government. This Article identifies these laws as tenant union law and illustrates how tenant unions organize in the shadow of this law to build power. This Article excavates the relevant legal architecture by analyzing ten modern tenant union campaigns from across the United States. The * Assistant Professor of Law and Co-Director of the Housing Justice and Tenant Solidarity Clinic, Rutgers Law School. The author thanks Heather Abraham, Hannah Adams, Charles Auffant, Vicki L. Been, Emily Benfer, Michelle Y. Ewert, Julie Gilgoff, Allyson E. Gold, Ingrid Gould-Ellen, Michael Grinthal, Allison Hrabar, Alan Hyde, Noah Kazis, Thomas E. Kleven, Gowri Krishna, Eloise Lawrence, Anika Singh Lemar, Lilly Lerner, Members of SHOUT, Noah Moskowitz, Matt Murphy, David Noll, K-Sue Park, Keriann Pauls, Sei Young Pyo, Kathryn A. Sabbeth, David Schleicher, Thomas Silverstein, Eric Sirota, Heather Way, Laura Weinrib, John Whitlow, and Katrina Wyman; the participants in ClassCrits, the Clinical Writers' Workshop, the International and Comparative Urban Law Conference, the LPE-NYC Junior Scholars Forum, the NYU Academic Careers Program, the NYU Furman Center for Real Estate and Urban Policy, the Rutgers Scholarship Forum; and the faculties of Rutgers Law School, University of Illinois Chicago School of Law, Washburn University School of Law, and Yale Law School for feedback and conversations throughout the drafting process. Thank you to Sophia Awari, Ellery Ireland, Victor Monterrosa, Jr., and Alaina Thomas, without whom this Article would not have been possible. Thank you to Nicholas Ayala-Auffant, Elias Bull, Anaiis Gonzalez, Amadi Slaughter, and David Tisel for excellent research assistance. Thank you to the Editors of the Yale Law & Policy Review, whose work and suggestions made each page of this Article better. Finally, thank you to Edith Sangueza. Mistakes and opinions are my own. 1