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3532 whitney ave

Arden Local
2nd/4th Tuesday 6:30-8:30PM 3532 Whitney Ave, Sacramento, CA 95821



Meets at Faith Legacy Church every 2nd and 4th Tuesday, 6:30-8:30 pm.

All are welcome. Interpretation available. Food provided.


SVTU’s Arden Local meets on the 2nd and 4th Tuesday of each month at Faith Legacy Church (3532 Whitney Ave, Sacramento CA 95821). Find us in the Fellowship Hall from 6:30-8:30pm, eating slices of Jojo’s Halal Pizza while we problem-solve our housing struggles together.

Since we began building community with our neighbors in Arden in early 2024, we’ve seen landlords taking advantage of tenants by issuing junk fees, intimidating immigrants and non-English speakers, and letting places fall into disrepair. These abusive landlords often hide behind shell companies, online billing platforms, and unresponsive property managers to do their dirty work.

SVTU members get the word out about the local and the power of collective tenant action by knocking doors at over 30 apartment buildings so far. With the local, tenants have been able to stand up to landlord abuse, overcome housing challenges, share knowledge, learn together, and find solidarity with others in moments of extreme difficulty, often across differences in culture and language. SVTU has supported the creation of three Arden tenants associations: the Palms Apartments Tenants Association, the Amber Grove Tenants Association, and the Tortona Tenants Association.

Palms tenants conducted a successful year-long rent strike and won significant settlements with their landlord after a fire at their residence, and the Tortona Tenants Association remains in struggle against bogus fees, unfair rents, negligent maintenance, and intimidation. If you rent in Arden, you and your neighbors could form SVTU’s next tenants association!

Tenants come together at general member meetings, local chapter meetings, and tenant association meetings around Sacramento——in Arden-Arcade, Del Paso Heights, and South Sacramento——where volunteers host a space to gather with neighbors, share experiences, challenges, and resources, and work together to solve problems. SVTU volunteers offer advice and follow-up support for tenants in crisis and for tenants interested in building power where they live through collective action and tenant associations. SVTU volunteers are committed to organizing tenants to build power against landlords and the predatory systems they control.

SVTU is a union run by and for our members. Our locals and tenant associations are run by and for their members. We fight for tenants, not for housing. We build tenant power through collective action. We practice and build solidarityーnot charityーacross buildings, neighborhoods, borders, and language barriers. We advocate a strategy of class struggle: Those who exploit us through the “housing market”ーlandlords, developers, and lendersーand those who manage itーpolice, lawyers, and politiciansーare highly organized, and so they must be met with an organized, militant tenant movement.

There is no tenant power without collective action. SVTU volunteers support and train tenants to confront our abusive landlords and property managers by gathering with our neighbors, identifying common concerns, making collective demands, and uniting around common strategies and tactics to carry out together as a group, including: forming tenant associations; sending petitions to landlords; launching code enforcement campaigns; running door knocking and letter writing campaigns; conducting landlord research; submitting civic and legal complaints; holding public protests; hosting press conferences; and conducting rent strikes.

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“Tenants unions are building, neighborhood or city-based organizations led by renters who stand together to build collective power, defend our communities, and our rights.” (Tenants Together)

¿QUÉ ES UN SINDICATO DE INQUILINOS?

“Sindicatos de inquilinos son organizaciones basadas en edificios, barrios, o ciudades dirigidas por inquilinos quienes se solidarizan para construir poder colectivo, defender nuestras comunidades, y nuestros derechos.” (Tenants Together)

د کرایه کوونکو ټولنه څه ده؟

د کرایه‎‌نشینانو اتحادیې هغه سازمانونه دي چې په ودانیو، ګاونډونو یا ښارونو کې فعالیت کوي او مشري یې د هغو کرایه‎‌نشینانو پر غاړه وي چې د ګډ ځواک د رامنځته کولو او د خپلو ټولنو او حقونو د دفاع لپاره سره یوځای کیږي.

(Tenants Together)

In SVTU, there are three local groups, in the neighborhoods of Arden-Arcade, Del Paso Heights, and South Sacramento. In each neighborhood, SVTU local members knock doors at apartments to ask tenants about housing problems and gather in regular meetings with tenants to discuss their problems and how to confront them collectively.

¿QUÉ SON LOS LOCALES DE SVTU?

En el SVTU, hay tres grupos locales, en los barrios de Arden-Arcade, Del Paso Heights, and South Sacramento. En cada barrio, miembros locales del SVTU tocan puertas en los apartamentos para preguntarles a los inquilinos sobre los problemas con su alojamiento, y se juntan en reuniones periódicas con los inquilinos para conversar sobre sus problemas y como enfrentarlos colectivamente.

All tenants are welcome! In each local meeting, tenants from the neighborhood (and beyond) gather to discuss how to respond to the landlord abuses they are facing. SVTU members from across the city participate to offer advice and support, and to learn from collective practice.

¿QUIÉN ASISTE A LAS REUNIONES LOCALES?

Todos los inquilinos son bienvenidos! En cada reunión local, inquilinos del barrio (y más afuera) se reúnen para conversar sobre cómo responder a los abusos del propietario que se enfrentan. Miembros del SVTU de toda la ciudad participan para ofrecer consejos y apoyo, y para aprender de la práctica colectiva.

SVTU members prepare a regular space in the neighborhood with tables and chairs, tenant rights materials, interpretation devices, and food and drinks. Tenants from the neighborhood (and beyond) gather to discuss in a group how to confront problems with their housing and their landlords. Volunteer members listen, interpret if needed, take notes on the problems that tenants face, suggest possible responses, offer useful resources, and help tenants to take the next steps.

¿QUÉ SUCEDE EN LAS REUNIONES LOCALES?

Miembros del SVTU preparan un espacio regular en el barrio con mesas y sillas, recursos sobre los derechos de inquilinos, aparatos de interpretación, y comida y bebidas. Inquilinos del barrio (y más afuera) se congregan para conversar sobre los problemas con su alojamiento y con sus proprietarios. Miembros voluntarios escuchan, interpretan si se necesita, toman notas sobre los problemas que se enfrentan los inquilinos, sugieren respuestas posibles, ofrecen recursos útiles, y ayudan a los inquilinos a tomar los próximos pasos.

“A TENANTS ASSOCIATION is a group of tenants living in the same building or development who choose to join forces in order to advocate for themselves, particularly when dealing with their landlord or management.” (LATU Tenants Association Handbook)

¿QUÉ ES UNA ASOCIACIÓN DE INQUILINOS?

“Una ASOCIACIÓN DE INQUILINOS es un grupo de inquilinos en el mismo edificio o conjunto residencial quienes deciden unir fuerzas para abogar por si mismos, en particular al tratar con el propietario o la administración.” (LATU Tenants Association Handbook)

SVTU members offer guidance and support to tenants interested in forming a tenant association at their building or residential complex.

The Los Angeles Tenants Union (LATU) also offers a very useful Tenants Association Handbook to help guide tenants through the steps of setting up their own tenants association.

If you are interested in forming a tenants association with your neighbors, send us a message with the contact form below, or with an email to: sacvalleytenants@gmail.com.

¿CÓMO FORMAR UNA ASOCIACIÓN DE INQUILINOS?

Miembros del SVTU ofrecen consejo y apoyo a los inquilinos interesados en formar una asociación de inquilinos en su edificio o conjunto residencial.

El Sindicato de Inquilinos de Los Angeles (LATU) también ofrece un Tenants Association Handbook muy útil para guiar a los inquilinos por los pasos de establecer su propia asociación de inquilinos.

Si les interesa formar una asociación de inquilinos con sus vecinos, envíanos un mensaje con el formulario de contacto abajo, o con un email a: sacvalleytenants@gmail.com.

You can meet SVTU members and start organizing at the upcoming local meetings or door knocking events (consult the calendar above).

No experience is needed to knock doors with SVTU, and we always pair up experienced members with new volunteers to talk with tenants together. It’s easy and fun!

If you have any questions, send a message with the contact form below, or by email at: sacvalleytenants@gmail.com.

¿CÓMO ORGANIZARNOS CON EL SVTU?

Pueden conocer a los miembros del SVTU y empezar a organizarse en las próximas reuniones locales o eventos de conversación puerta a puerta (consulta el calendario arriba).

No se necesita experiencia para tocar puertas con el SVTU, y siempre nos juntamos los voluntarios con más experiencia con los nuevos voluntarios para conversar con inquilinos juntos. ¡Es fácil y divertido!

Si tienen preguntas, envíanos un mensaje con el formulario de contacto abajo, o con un email a: sacvalleytenants@gmail.com.

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