Who we are...
Sacramento Tenants Union is a democratic, tenant-led organization dedicated to making improvements in our membership’s living conditions. We fight to win and retain affordable, safe, healthy, and fair housing options for all Sacramentans. The work of our grassroots organization is made possible through the volunteered labor and financial support, through dues contributions, of our members. If you’re ready to join the Sacramento Tenants Union and start building tenant power, click the Join STU button below.
Our Work
Midtown Tenants Organize!
Sacramento Tenants Union successfully organized Midtown tenants to get housing justice from a slumlord. Tenants’ solidarity and demands put pressure on their landlord who eventually agreed to negotiating.
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We are deeply committed to the fight to keep tenants and their families in their homes by exposing the loopholes in the state’s eviction moratorium.
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In the news
March 10, 2022
By Jeannie Nguyen & Jonathan Taraya, Fox 40 NewsSOUTH SACRAMENTO, Calif. (KTXL) — A group of South Sacramento residents told FOX40 on Wednesday that their apartment complex property manager is purposefully targeting and harassing them. For nearly 16 years, Paul Nickson has lived in his apartment on Glen Ellen Circle in South Sacramento. Being on a fixed income, affordable housing is his only option. But in the last six months, since his complex got a new property manager, he said he’s been targeted...The Sacramento Tenants Union is stepping in to try to get the residents legal help. The union said at least eight tenants have filed complaints against the property manager.
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November 18, 2021
By Scott Thomas Anderson, Sacramento News & ReviewIf Mayor Darrell Steinberg was looking to make news Tuesday night by unveiling a sweeping new proposal on homelessness, his words had that effect, generating an array of headlines about Sacramento possibly enacting a landmark ‘right-to-housing’ ordinance. But while Steinberg’s idea found a degree of support with elected officials, many who work around unhoused people expressed misgivings about its nature – while the city’s tenant union stressed councilmembers should be focused on a dire situation that they’re fully aware of, one that could lead to even more people living on the streets.
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July 26, 2021
By: Scott Thomas Anderson, Sacramento News & ReviewEffective July 1, the formula for the annual rent hike ceiling in the City of Sacramento jumped three percentage points for the rest of 2021, a change currently mandated by the language of the Sacramento Tenant Protection and Relief Act – and one due entirely to the fact that the Consumer Price Index is on the rise....
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