A new post on NLIHC’s On the Home Front blog focuses on the career of Dean Preston, the founder of San Francisco-based Tenants Together and a member of the San Francisco Board of Supervisors. Beginning his career in the early 2000s as a tenant attorney in San Francisco’s Tenderloin neighborhood, Preston frequently defended tenants who were at risk of eviction. Realizing that progress could best be made by working to organize tenants, he established Tenants Together, the first California statewide tenants’ organization since a short-lived effort in the 1980s. Learn how Preston and Tenants Together influenced housing policy in San Francisco in the new post.
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