February Fundraising

Dear Community,

For Valentine’s Day we want a home to grow tenant power in Ridgewood!

This is the year we make our dream of establishing an office a reality and we are propelled by the love we have for collective tenant power. So, starting this February, we are declaring our deep love and commitment to our neighborhood of Ridgewood.

What makes our neighborhood beautiful? It’s the people! And our neighbors deserve to stay in the place they call home.

Our tenants’ union also needs a home of its own. One where we can form a strong base of tenants that are unified under one mission: building power with our neighbors to fight displacement.

Many of our members know that keeping a roof over one’s head is becoming more difficult as rent prices surge in Ridgewood. In establishing a homebase, we’ll be better equipped to organize and build tenant power to fight back against evictions, harassment, bad conditions, and displacement.

We recently interviewed several of our members about their connection to RTU, the love they have for their community, and the need they see for a physical organizing space that offers support and resources to our working class neighbors.

Our members are helping us make our collective dream a reality. They are helping us in raising the funds necessary to establish an office and thinking through other fundraising strategies. In the following months, we’ll need all hands on deck to reach our goal.

You can help make our vision a reality too!

• Give what you can today through this Givebutter campaign
• Share our Instagram fundraising posts with your networks: @ridgewoodtenantsunion
• Help organize a fundraiser to help us raise funds

Thank you, neighbors! We value your support and look forward to strengthening our collective power!

Sincerely,

Ridgewood Tenants Union