What Distinguishes us:

• We are not a legal clinic or a know-your-rights organization. While these tools can be useful, they direct energy into government tribunals. These tribunals are not meant to bring an end to the housing-market. They are meant to standardize it and reduce some abuses. They are often difficult to navigate, indifferent, and partial towards landlords. We need to start solving, and increasing our capacity to solve, our problems through collective mobilization and direct action.
• We are not paid militants. We want to avoid union bureaucracy and people who use unions as a vehicle for making money. 
• We're not lobbyists: the changes we want go beyond legislation. Chasing politicians only dilutes our demands, and creates an elite of people within our organization who are capable of engaging with officials. This environment is not hospitable towards a mass organization focused on local battles with landlords and one-on-one conversations between tenants.
• We are not a service organization: We expect tenants to help us in return, however they can, in exchange for our solidarity. We offer no legal promises or contracts. We are all responsible for fighting back against landlords and need strength in numbers!
• We are not a bureaucratic union. Union dues don't go to paying staff.
• We are not reformists: We do not just want lower rent increases or fewer evictions. We want an end to landlordship and capitalism. We want the right to housing, self-management, and a society based on egalitarian and communitarian social relations. This can only come through mass militancy. 
• We're not looking to make friends with our landlords or to create a long-term relationship of compromise. The union is a space for tenants, by tenants, to advance our common interests.